Illustrator

I found a video on youtube that really helped me with Illustrator. It shows different examples of how to make curves and lines and it demonstrates many different shortcuts that make it a lot easier. Hopefully it helps!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD46WhSijh0

Movement

I have asked you to create a square composition expressing movement, using analogous colors and exploring halation.
Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending A Staircase No. 2 is one of the most influential paintings in the history of modern art, and it is one prompt you can research for capturing movement. Duchamp reinterpreted Eadweard Muybridge’s sequence of a naked woman walking down a flight of stairs from his 1887 Animal Locomotion. Duchamp combined Futurist and Cubist ideas in a unique way and depicted movement through fragmentation. Most viewers weren’t impressed by its showing in the 1913 New York Armory Show.

illustrator

youtube videos arent really my thing, so heres a site i used to get myself started when i was having issues figuring out illustrator. it goes over things like pen tool, blending, text, paintbrush, color, customizing your windows, etc... and they're constantly adding to it. just something i found useful!

Trip to Baltimore Harbor over spring break

These are just a few pictures I took while I was at the Baltimore Harbor over spring break. I was surprised just how in tune I was with the architecture surrounding the harbor and the public plaza on the harbor, and their significance. I saw buildings that were transformed from old factories to night clubs, a museum with an indoor jungle, old rusted boat parts used as statues in the plaza, the holocost memorial, and more. It was refreshing to see what I had been learning in my classes here at Virginia Tech, are excessible everywhere, and are just now being noticed for their picturesque and functional aspects of their designs, by me.

Paper

During the first year competition I came across the work of Peter Callisan. Peter Callisan uses paper to construct beautiful and intricate paper creations. His work gave me a lot of inspiration and ideas. I would recommend everyone to take a look at some of his work.

http://worldartmedia.blogspot.com/2011/05/peter-callesen.html

Picture from: http://worldartmedia.blogspot.com/2011/05/peter-callesen.html

This is crazy, and reminded me of the freshman competition

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/masters-of-paper-art-and-paper-sculptures-part-ii/

Inspiring art using paper

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/05/29/the-beauty-of-paper-art/
 This website had some inspiring designs using paper, most of which may be too complicated to create with ne 19 by 24 bristol board, but they can help to bring ideas if you're stuck. Also, their are references r related posts towards the bottom that can probably help.