In this project, I found it necessary to decrease the saturation and increase the luminosity of the background theme, as it became difficult to see the text in front of it.

Prototyping was undoubtedly the smoothest aspect of the project. Once I placed the elements, I followed along, registering each of the flow elements with the corresponding screens they should be showing.

Acquiring the gumption and inspiration to achieve a workable, presentable prototype was no easy task. At this point, I’m satisfied that I followed through with my promise to myself to complete it on time.

Likewise, to my third Digital Illustration project, I wish I gave myself more time and patience to work on this.

I can’t see this project changing any time soon if we end up ridding ourselves of the COVID-19 pandemic in the next few months. However, I’m inclined to see it call for a more customized approach so that users of the newly-defined applications hold more personality while using them.

Should I be tempted to make another application soon, I’ll remember to keep peak fluidity and accessibility in mind.

After personal consideration, I chose the Celeste: Farewell album over The Three Caballeros movie poster for simplicity’s sake. Designing and re-designing the aves raras was a lot less appealing to me: someone who has a soft spot for gradients.

In this project, I learned that there’s a condition for “merging” objects in Illustrator so that they share an effect, such as drop shadow, instead of laying Effects over each other. Grouping is the only solution I’ve figured out so far, but it works for me.

Live Paint Bucket saves the day again, giving me hope and a clear-cut, quick way of flat coloring in Illustrator. I find it easy to use in time-constrained situations, and it provides a unique level of satisfaction in a vector-based program.

Okay, scratch what I said about how much I love gradients – I love gradients, but everywhere but Illustrator. Designing a new gradient is an adventure I don’t think I’ll ever get over, and neither is applying a gradient to an object that already uses another gradient since the gradient tool recognizes the old gradient as that which you want to use when it isn’t.

Creating inventive backgrounds is something I struggle with for all facets of art, and I’m slightly ashamed of how quickly I overlooked that for this project. I also know not to beat myself up over it, but I know it’s still important that I get it done, rather than not.

I find it hard to make decisions in personalized settings, and the personality of creating a chosen movie poster or album cover is the indecisive’s nightmare. If it comes to be such an issue that I don’t know what to start with, I’d like to see more examples than just a movie that pokes fun at sharks.

This project got me to test my Pen Tool skills, and it let me understand more about the tools and how they work to create lines and curves – especially in a setting where I had to work quickly to achieve a finished product.

I found Becky’s Project 2 (https://razzchan.wordpress.com/2018/10/18/project-2-5/) a great source of inspiration with the consistency of used effects and their fields of application, especially in separating the foreground and the background.

In coding this webpage, I learned the importance of using a .css file to manage the style of a webpage in a concise, compact form that doesn’t directly relate to the .HTML file I was working on.

I found that replacing the information bound within the HTML file’s “chicken beaks” was the easiest part, and it helped me recall that these angle brackets help the HTML file create elements that a user can include in their program. I even added a new article so that I can fill out my educational information in the resume.

I found it troubling to find the coloration tags in the .css file, and I knew that these hex codes would change the overall color of my resume web page. They weren’t well-highlighted and I had a hard time finding them, but I suppose the difficulty of navigation is learning how to not be lost.

My submission could’ve stood to be more colorful, as compared with the color palette I had chosen. That being said, I don’t think the .css file was very liberal in terms of modification since I would’ve chosen different colors for the header texts in different sections. Perhaps the next variation of the project could also accommodate for that extra burst of creativity in students.

Knowing that a lot of graphic designers are commissioned or hired to design websites for people with the money to pay, I think these skills will come in handy for a part-time job or internship, creating websites for those who take up my offers.

I think the slideshow in the project folder helped me the most since it had a nice exemplar process that I could follow along with and check through my live previews in Brackets at the same time.