LINK Project Proposal
I will be interning with a local graphics designer, named Rubistarr.She spends her time at meetings, setting up websites, and designing logos for companies and local businesses around the area. She strives to create beautiful work that the customer wants and likes, while keeping it at a professional level. This allows local businesses to promote themselves more effectively, and shows the public that local is the best option, as they can be as professional and even better quality as a major corporation.
My mentor is a Durango local graphic designer, by the name Rubistarr Randazzo. She works by herself in creating digital art and logos for local businesses. She has been working with this form of art for several years now, and I hope she can teach me how to render art and create vexel art (both styles I have been trying to imitate, unsuccessfully, for 7 months now). I also hope to learn about coding and setting up websites through commands, instead of just a ‘click and drag’ format.
I believe that I can apply what I learn to my academic, personal, and career uses. Since I would like to go into gaming design, and animation, learning how to design characters and other forms of art digitally will help me in character design, while coding for websites can help me learn the formatting for getting characters to move. For my academics, I can use these skills in order to create art projects and comics that are based on the subject we are learning. In fact these skills can be useful in math because even design like this is made of of equations and numbers put into a program (In fact I did a project last year based around this idea). My personal uses include entering my new style of art to contests, selling posters, and other artwork to make some extra money on the side.
I am actually still pretty unsure what my project is going to be, however I have brainstormed a few things with my mentor. We were thinking about making posters that promote Durango, a cover for a comic I am writing, or something similar. This would promote her business, and would encourage the idea of ‘local first’ even more. Hopefully I can learn how to design logos and labels, so that I could help my father design his website and packaging stickers and whatnot, also.
I need to know how to semi-run certain programs, such as Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. If I know the basics, which I do, then I will be able to learn more technical aspects of those programs faster than if I knew nothing of them. You also need to know how to work computers and their programs. Unfortunately I know more about Mac than I do Windows (or other PC’s), and since my regular laptop is broken at the moment, I need to learn more of the basics of Windows. Another thing you need to know is the knowledge of what the general public likes and is into to. If you know what is going on in pop culture, you can keep up with what people tend to react to (eg: colors, shapes, certain words, etc...). And because of this, there is a lot of refinement that needs to happen. Social skills also come in handy, something I need to work on more. You need to be able to communicate with thee customer about what they want, and how they would like it to be changed.
I need to learn more about said programs above. I also need to set something up with either the city or a local business to start my project. For example, if I start drawing my comic, and actually finish it, I could sell it locally (and online) and a certain amount of the proceeds could go towards Animas or a local charity, such as Manna Soup Kitchen. The next step I would need to do is learn how to set up meetings with businesses who I would want to sell to. I would have to keep a log of the places I tried, and whether they are interested or even if they deny my offer. For exhibition itself I would have to show the amount of work I did and some of the things I worked on.
Several things happened during the course of the past few months. The main one being the crash of my computers hard drive. This was a major blow, because I haven’t been able to practice on the programs I had downloaded on my computer right before it broke. The other thing that happened was that I lost most of my privileges with my drawing tablet, so I haven’t been able to download it’s software even on the loaner computer yet to practice. I have also only met my mentor once, and I still have a few things that need to be worked out with when I go to work, what I wear, and several other things.
I actually feel confident that things will go well with this internship. I love working with computers and art, so this is actually perfect for me. Also since I want to start designing games, this is a perfect stepping stone into the gaming design industry. I’m incredibly excited, to be completely honest! This might lead into a local job, and can launch a career in the future. I know that graphic designers make a fair amount of money, because there are millions of businesses and people who don’t know how to do this kind of work, and aren’t able to do it, either because they are incapable or they can’t afford all of the software and even hardware in order to do this kind of work. And I can always fall back on these skills if my dreams of being a video game designer doesn’t work out.
My mentor is a Durango local graphic designer, by the name Rubistarr Randazzo. She works by herself in creating digital art and logos for local businesses. She has been working with this form of art for several years now, and I hope she can teach me how to render art and create vexel art (both styles I have been trying to imitate, unsuccessfully, for 7 months now). I also hope to learn about coding and setting up websites through commands, instead of just a ‘click and drag’ format.
I believe that I can apply what I learn to my academic, personal, and career uses. Since I would like to go into gaming design, and animation, learning how to design characters and other forms of art digitally will help me in character design, while coding for websites can help me learn the formatting for getting characters to move. For my academics, I can use these skills in order to create art projects and comics that are based on the subject we are learning. In fact these skills can be useful in math because even design like this is made of of equations and numbers put into a program (In fact I did a project last year based around this idea). My personal uses include entering my new style of art to contests, selling posters, and other artwork to make some extra money on the side.
I am actually still pretty unsure what my project is going to be, however I have brainstormed a few things with my mentor. We were thinking about making posters that promote Durango, a cover for a comic I am writing, or something similar. This would promote her business, and would encourage the idea of ‘local first’ even more. Hopefully I can learn how to design logos and labels, so that I could help my father design his website and packaging stickers and whatnot, also.
I need to know how to semi-run certain programs, such as Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. If I know the basics, which I do, then I will be able to learn more technical aspects of those programs faster than if I knew nothing of them. You also need to know how to work computers and their programs. Unfortunately I know more about Mac than I do Windows (or other PC’s), and since my regular laptop is broken at the moment, I need to learn more of the basics of Windows. Another thing you need to know is the knowledge of what the general public likes and is into to. If you know what is going on in pop culture, you can keep up with what people tend to react to (eg: colors, shapes, certain words, etc...). And because of this, there is a lot of refinement that needs to happen. Social skills also come in handy, something I need to work on more. You need to be able to communicate with thee customer about what they want, and how they would like it to be changed.
I need to learn more about said programs above. I also need to set something up with either the city or a local business to start my project. For example, if I start drawing my comic, and actually finish it, I could sell it locally (and online) and a certain amount of the proceeds could go towards Animas or a local charity, such as Manna Soup Kitchen. The next step I would need to do is learn how to set up meetings with businesses who I would want to sell to. I would have to keep a log of the places I tried, and whether they are interested or even if they deny my offer. For exhibition itself I would have to show the amount of work I did and some of the things I worked on.
Several things happened during the course of the past few months. The main one being the crash of my computers hard drive. This was a major blow, because I haven’t been able to practice on the programs I had downloaded on my computer right before it broke. The other thing that happened was that I lost most of my privileges with my drawing tablet, so I haven’t been able to download it’s software even on the loaner computer yet to practice. I have also only met my mentor once, and I still have a few things that need to be worked out with when I go to work, what I wear, and several other things.
I actually feel confident that things will go well with this internship. I love working with computers and art, so this is actually perfect for me. Also since I want to start designing games, this is a perfect stepping stone into the gaming design industry. I’m incredibly excited, to be completely honest! This might lead into a local job, and can launch a career in the future. I know that graphic designers make a fair amount of money, because there are millions of businesses and people who don’t know how to do this kind of work, and aren’t able to do it, either because they are incapable or they can’t afford all of the software and even hardware in order to do this kind of work. And I can always fall back on these skills if my dreams of being a video game designer doesn’t work out.
Mentor Interview
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByIuqMKRPRjNVGd1SHozdHlYY1E/edit