What I Learned In DM110

What a fantastic class DM110 has been! Of course it is helpful the instructor is beyond fantastic—sassy, funny, a great teacher—yes, I’m talking about Margaret Loos and her Digital Illustration class. I may come off as rambling a bit as it is 5am in the morning and my final is just finished.

I’m quite pleased with how the final project came out. It might be better given more time, but this is all the time there is to come up with this beaut. It was a challenge incorporating all the things needed to make the grade—I’m hoping the superfancy repeating pattern in the stripe overlay will suffice for the background requirement. I tried to get a nice painterly burlap background in but I just couldn’t get the mask to look the way I wanted—I’ve just been psychologically hampered because I found a fantastic tutorial using the fan brush in CS5 but I’m still using CS4! For about an hour I obsessed over getting the same look I saw in the tut to no avail.

Anyway, it has been a good class this semester. I look forward to our last class meeting when I’ll demonstrate how to make a type brush and apply it to a spiral path, there will be other demos, and we’ll get to review all the final turn-ins. Then, it is cocktails with the teacher!