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4/29-5/6 –

4/21-4/28 –

4/9-4/21
-presentation stuff
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3/31-4/8

Unfortunately the computer in the corner crashed when I stepped out for a few minutes this weekend. I hadn’t saved 🙁 I would have been further on the painting.

Berlin Icons: This was the first project that I used Illustrator. Because I did not know Illustrator well, I approached the images timidly creating icons that were not very powerful. With the guidance of Suloni, I was able to redo the icons and make them bolder and easier to read. The Berlin Icons were certainly a helpful stepping stone for the MedTerms project.

ASL Online: For this project, I learned to use Fluid Mask. This program helped me to quickly and easily remove the backgrounds of the pictures of hands.

Medical Terminology: I learned a lot about illustrator while being immersed in the drawings of the three MedTerms images. I received input from Michael and Marissa who helped direct me towards efficiently conquering the complicated parts of the images when I felt overwhelmed. I definitely think this project has increased my skill and efficiency in Illustrator.

COLA Banners: For the CAAS site, I noticed that a big part of the program is Yoruba Studies. I looked for images representing the Yoruba culture and found a person dancing wearing a mask. I drew the mask and realized that my image did not reflect any aspects of African American culture so I added a jazz musician to balance the content of the image.

3/25- 3/30

STA Presentation:

Berlin Icons: This was the first project that I used Illustrator. Because I did not know Illustrator well, I approached the images timidly creating icons that were not very powerful. With the guidance of Suloni, I was able to redo the icons and make them bolder and easier to read. The Berlin Icons were certainly a helpful stepping stone for the MedTerms project.

Medical Terminology: I learned a lot about illustrator while being immersed in the drawings of the three MedTerms images. I received input from Michael and Marissa who helped direct me towards efficiently conquering the complicated parts of the images when I felt overwhelmed. I definitely think this project has increased my skill and efficiency in Illustrator.

3/18-3/24

More Rhet&Writing Banner:

worked on Humanities Banner:

3/2-3/17 worked on Rhetoric and Writing Mockup:

2/25-3/1 worked on COLA icons:

image for Rhetoric and Writing:

2/18-2/24

2/11-2/17 -More hand cutouts. (See last week).

-Begin African Center Mockup

2/4-2/10 Learn Fluid Mask and use it to cut out ASL hands.

1/28-2/3

-Using Julio’s ASL prop and color palette, I worked on a cup in illustrator to practice gradients and lettering:

-watched many flash tutorials. Attempted some flash tutorials. Couldn’t get button to fully work. Got the other one to work, but I pretty much just copied the script from a tutorial, and I don’t know what the lines of script really mean.

1/21-1/27

ORIGINAL->

12/3-12/18

-Finished ceramics.html for TBH:
-Finished endocrine drawing for Med Terms:

ORIGINAL->

-Switched out images for AP8.html for TBH:

11/27-12/2

Finished manicuring Madera Project. More to come…
still working on endocrine.
-Mine

11/19-11/26

finished madera project. (New complicated template=time consuming).
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still working on endocrine.
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11/12-11/18

-discussing timelines for TBH stuff with Steve and Susan.
-looked at new project with a different template.
-revised and finished architecture.html:
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-completed fem. reproductive system:
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-begun endocrine:
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11/4-11/11

-almost done with architecture.html for TBH
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-done with ap12.html for TBH
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-fem reproductive sys. for med terms. almost done.
-original:
-illustrator:

10/29-11/4**Server down all weekend, so I couldn’t finish my hours

-fixed some content errors on agriculture.html.
-completed earlyarchaic.html:
-dealt with css/formatting confusion. Tried to get help from Greg and Mike about the following problem:
-I never had the problem that I couldn’t see the whole page, so I am confused. I sent Steve the updated CSS where the manilla color goes all the way to the edge.. so hopefully it was just an error with his style sheet and everything will work out.

10/23-10/28

-Met with Steve Black and Susan Dial for an intro about my project on the Texas Beyond History site.
-Using a template from a completed page, I copied and pasted text and images into the La Junta Agriculture page. I added the specified links within the text. I also added links from the images on the agriculture page to pages I created for the enlarged images.
-Discussed with Marissa the new style for the images on the Med Terms site.

10/15-10/22

-Introduction to Dreamweaver by Christine.
-Fooled around with Dreamweaver.

Fixed More Cola Banners :

10/8-10/14

Berlin Workshop icons:

First Try:

Second Try:

More Cola Banners:

Oct. 7

-Fixed New Berlin edit:
-Fades for COLA Banners using Christine’s Images:

Original Images Banners

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-Alternate Fades BonnetGirl and OrangeGirl:

Oct. 4- Lab Hours

-Deleted Double Lines on Michael’s Africa Map.
-Added Green Texture to Orange Girl (see above).
–Assigned: Icons for “Second German Studies Workshop.”
-Fix New Berlin.
-Add Christine’s images into COLA Banners.

Oct. 1–Meeting–

Sept. 30

-New Berlin Edit:
-Old Berlin Edit:

Sept. 27

-erased eLucy’s background:

Sept. 24

-Practiced strokes for Med Terms shading. Med Terms put on hold.

–Meeting–

–Assigned: Illustrator outline of Africa for Arabic Language site.
-Use Photoshop to retouch Old and New Berlin photos.

Sept. 22

Finish section of heart drawing:
Beginning Stages of Old Berlin:

Sept. 20-Lab Hours

-Begin Redrawing Old Berlin.

Sept. 19

–Assigned: Redraw Old and New Berlin in Illustrator.
-Scanned Old and New Berlin Pictures.

Sept. 17

-Met with Suloni, Michael, Marissa concerning Med Terms style.

–Meeting–

–Assigned: -Complete colored heart style by next Monday with stroke and color swatches. -Outline drawing of Venus.

Sept. 16

-Help Michael by making Venus Sketch:

Sept. 15

Sept. 14

-Finished heart outline for Med. Terms site:
(I increased the weight of the stroke for the purposes of the wiki).

Sept. 13-Lab Hours

-Began heart outline on Illustrator for Medical Terms site.

Sept. 10-–Meeting–

-Volunteered for Vietnamese project.
-Perhaps do a “better” tile.

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-Started reviewing Atlas of Human Anatomy for Medical Terminology page.
-Spoke with Jamie about Vietnamese project.
-Found and cut out pictures of women; added them to Lesson 3, Picture 3.
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Sept. 5-–Meeting–

-Finished tile:
–Assigned: drawings for Medical Terminology page.