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I’ve got some pretty cool news. Today I attended my first UI meeting with Marla. I showed her & other administrators the website so far & answered some questions about the design. Chris and I are EXTREMELY close to finishing the second (and final!!!) part of the Appstore, we’re just waiting on Jac’s approval so that we can either roll it out to testing or make some changes.
But, here’s the final home page!
Here’s also the second page minus Chris’ edits:
I FINISHED TATE’S ASSIGNMENT!!!
Here’s a cute little shelfie 🙂
What I did this shift was color in all the ” primed” items with the Watercolor Big Round Brush! For the more detailed artwork on the labels, I switched over to the hard mechanical paint brush. I find that it’s better for making crisp logos for these kitchen items. I’m thinking about straightening out the little wheat stem so that it reads as wheat better. But, I think it works!
That’s all I did for this shift 🙂
Today I continued on Tate’s assignment!
Wow, look at dat clutter!
I did the same thing I did with the olive oil bottles and outlined the reference pictures of the items on the middle shelf. After doing that, I used a hard mechanical brush with no textures to color in the items with white as to prime them for the watercolor stage.
After I did that, I was trained by Nick on how to make interactives on Canvasser for the eAnthro V-Labs!
That’s all I got to today because I had a short shift.
I worked on an assignment Tate gave me today. I followed the basic procedures for making these olive oil bottles.
So much olive oil!!! Why???
When I was given access to this file, there were reference pictures in place. I was assigned the middle shelf of the cafe kitchen. This shelf consisted of olive oil bottles, a container, a jar, some bags of coffee grounds, and a bag of flour.
I started off this assignment by making the line art using the reference pictures. After that, I colored in the bottles using a white color to prime the drawings for the watercolor textured brush for the color of the oil bottles. I used the color picker to create the color scheme of the bottles and used the “Watercolor Big Round” brush on a large setting to paint the bottles in. I find that using this brush with a large radius yields the best watercolor effects.
After painting the bottles and all its main components (the bottles, the lid, the backdrop of the bottle’s label), I switched from the watercolor brush to a hard mechanical brush to make the olive branch. This was a little difficult because when I initially started drawing this graphic it was hard to read and looked….a bit phallic. BUT!!! I think the final result reads pretty well, so yay!
Aaaaand, that’s basically what I did for this shift!
This week I edited many photo IDs! I also sorted through 26 grad students’ studio portraits and selected the best images for their photo IDs.
I added documentation on Cascade for how to add an image to your profile from the COLA DB. Hopefully it’ll be helpful to Ms. Jamieson.
I also finished the coughing illustration for Russian. Both Kathy and Duo had that boyband member theme going on so I wanted to contribute to that as well. If they’re all members of the same band, they probably infected each other…
