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in food service, administration, and then I worked as a

logistics analyst for a couple of years until I was laid off

due to lack of work. It is kind of funny how life (luckily)

keeps on pushing me to pursue work that really matters to

me after a bit of time to pay off debt and bills. I have found

that with every negative I have experienced in my life it

has only brought me closer to the human condition, and

better able to understand and empathize this fellowship

we all share.

Graduating undergraduate school right after 9/11 was

pretty rough; the world awoke to a whole new pretty scary

world. I have always been a hard worker because my

family had enough but were not wealthy. The attack on

the two towers and pentagon really brought a mirror to

the fragility of human life for me and the importance of

our connections to others. My senior art project was titled

isolation in technology, where my statement was about

how disconnected and lonely we had all become as aresult of increased technology (and Facebook didnt even

exist then, nor much of the social media we have now, nor

smart phones)!

While in my second semester at N.I.U., we moved

Forward, Together Forward, after a school shooting

took the lives of our classmates. I remember where I was

when I found out about 9/11, and also during the school

shootings. During the time of yet another tragedy, I was in

wind ensemble rehearsal and we were playing San

by Frank Ticheli. Not only in such emotional tim

those do I think that music saves us, but it literally

us that day.

After 9/11, then the school shooting at N.I. U., I felt

I couldnt be safe at work or at school then the only

holding me back from enlisting in a military band wa

Those events erased that fear for me, and it was o

the hardest but best decisions of my life to make.

In basic combat training, I fractured my pelvis and

stress fractured my femoral neck. It took me a li

longer than everyone else to graduate, but I was per

and didnt give up. I have had tremendous oppo

and traveled all over the United States, and to be

France and Germany. My broken body has given

gift to respect our wounded warriors even more. In

to love my broken and imperfect body, I am again aconnect to more of my humanity.

Everything. Everything I have experienced has giv

so much to think about, to create from. I am exci

share this class with you all! My goal is to create

I can include in an online portfolio, update my so

knowledge, and to nd my artistic voice this sem

If anyone needs help with an assignment, or

someone to talk to I am here and listening.

I s o l a t i o n in Technolog

was a double major at Saint Xavier University,

and received my baccalaureate degrees in graphic design

and in music. I have been balancing art and music most of

my life, but after receiving both degrees in 2002 I stopped

creating art work for myself and have felt a longing to

get back to it. Because of the extreme work load of both

majors, I walked at graduation pretty burnt out. After that,

I made a living teaching music lessons, gigging, and

working as a freelance graphic designer. I would have

continued on like that if not for the instability and need for

health insurance. I walked away from both art and music

for a while and worked retail jobs, odd jobs, until realizing

my barely-more-than-minimum wage Supervisor job had

very little room for mobility and more i mportantly provided

scant givings towards my craving and need to produce

art both visually and musically. It was about a ve year

bump where I slowly turned my focus blurry, but did the

necessary work to pay off my student debt and tried to

make a living.

What do you do when youre having a mid-life crisis as a

27 year old? Well, I decided that I simply needed to try try

for anything I could. I started working on graduate school

auditions for a performance degree, and applying to all

the creative jobs I could nd. A few months later I began

working in communications (which included graphic design

work!), and six months later was offered an assistant-

ship towards a graduate degree in performance at

Northern Illinois University. I had a two week window to

nd a place to live, register for classes, and jump into a

whole new adventure. Graduate school, at the time, was

the most challenging pursuit of my life. I am proud to

have earned my Masters in clarinet performance, and am

thankful that it has provided me with the musical voice I

yearned for on my horn. I am not perfect, and could study

for a lifetime and still want to practice and work more but

have reached a point in my musical life where I am happy.

I founded a wind and piano chamber ensemble, and we

perform and rehearse regularly.

After graduate school, I auditioned to be in the Army

Reserves band and made it. Shortly thereafter I enlisted,

and it has now been nearly ve years since I raised my

hand. Your rst enlistment in the Reserves is 6 years

+ 2 inactive. I am almost through my rst enlistment.

Being in the military as a musician as THE face/ the

public identity most civilians will see has been a veryhumbling experience that I am honored to have been

able to participate in. Less than 1% of the population in

the United States is in the military, and there are even

fewer qualied musicians out there. Right now I am the

non-commissioned ofcer in charge of unit public affairs,

teach suicide rst aid courses, and have a few other

miscellaneous additional duties.

Civilian work after graduate school wafed around a bit

Shari

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Our rst project was to create drawings on the stylus

using only 100 lines. We were given a short amount of

time to glance at the objects which were a wine bottle,

goblet, then tea pot that Nathan (our teacher) held out in

his hands, and back to the computer screen our canvas

and back again to the objects. I remember Nathan

saying that drawing a perfect replica of the objects was

not our goal, it was to simply draw. Start drawing, keep

going, and edit later. It reminded me of a brainstorming

session, or sitting down for your rst reading of a piece of

music (sight reading), and I had never thought about art

that way. It was exciting and freeing, to not have to create

something beautiful or perfect, to be allowed to make a

mistake. The closest I remember drawing that way was

during gesture studies, and quick sketches in drawing

class (see pages 10-12).

Before we started the 100-line drawings, we were allgiven special stylus pens to write on the Bamboo tablet

along with a short explanation of how they worked in

marriage with Adobe Illustrator.

To open AI, click on the orange AI icon at the bottom of

the screen.

Once AI opens, go to File -> New Document. It is helpful

to know if you are printing your project or if it will be

posted on the web. This is because it will directly affect

how you create a le. For example, saving something in

CMYK would be for print and RGB would

be for web.

To start, are a few simple suggestions to ensure success:

Size: choose letter (8.5 x 11), legal (8.5 x 14), or

tabloid (11 x 17). Make sure your units are in inches

and the orientation you prefer is chosen

Portrait is vertical, landscape horizontal.

For our class, we are to always save our les as our rst

initial + last name + cgf14 + description. For example, my

les are saved as sheda-cgf14-winebottle.

Once a new document was created, we began by signing

our names, again and again (and again). Nathan told us

that with every new medium, he always starts with the

same drawing until he feels comfortable and then movesto create something new.

The wine bottle on page 7 is supposed to be all horizontal

lines (but I didnt quite get that at rst). Then the goblet in

the center of this page is all vertical lines, and nally the

teapot up in the corners is all diagonal lines.

To take a screen shot on a Macintosh

computer, you have to simultaneously press

down three keys: shift, command, 3. It takes a screen

shot of the ENTIRE computer screen, not just the le

you are working on. You can also use shift, command, 4.

This creates a selection tool where you specify what you

want to have a screen shot of by drawing a box around it.

Both examples will be saved directly onto the desktop as

a PNG image, which is great since the AI le (.AI) is not a

format that you can upload to social media websites.

To take a screen shot on a PC, you press the windows

button and the PrtSc f unction key. It saves the document

in a Screenshots folder that lives in t he Pictures folder

of your computer.

In class we learned about the differences in pixel art

verses vector art.

Pixel art or also known as a bitmap, is comprised

entirely of square pixels. They are, as Nathan said, a

documentation of reality. When thinking of pixel art

tangibly, relate them to mediums such as a still camera,

digital still camera, video, or a scanner.

File extensions related to pixel art are .PSD (Adobe

Photoshop), .JPEG, and .GIF. Many layers come

together to equal components in pixel art whereas in

vector art a line or a shape equal a separate layer.

Vector art encompass corners, curves, line (color, we

texture, and ll (opaque or transparent, gradient). A

is a location on a grid and innitely scalable with

loss of information. Vectors also stay pretty small

size because computers love numbers and theyre

translatable. Drawing, illustration, and digital paintin

all vector art mediums.

File extensions related to vector art that you will se

(Adobe Illustrator), .PDF, and .TTF (True Type Font)

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PORTRAITSKETCH


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We are back in Adobe Illustrator again, which is my

favorite program. As a side note, my favorite tool used

to be the pen tool (using a mouse). Our medium is the

Bamboo tablet and stylus now my preference! It is so

close to drawing on a pad of paper that it is wonderfully

freeing, so adaptable and fun.

Once you open up Illustrator, create a new document.

As a warm-up, Nathan recommends starting with your

signature until you can re-create how you sign with

a pen and paper. Sign big, sign small, and then move

onto quick 100 line horizontal and vertical lines. Try to

evenly disperse 10 identical horizontal lines. Once that is

comfortable, move to 25 or 50 and so on. Then switch to

vertical lines and repeat the same exercise. This exercise

helps you to reconnect your hand eye coordination with

the tablet and screen. We also did some quick sketchesfrom objects across the room, familiar objects we have

sketched before:

Our project in class this week was to create a 3-dimensional

illusion in a line drawing. The way that you do that is by

adding value - lighting (highlights and shadows). You

become a magician through careful observation and

study of shadows, and turn a 2-dimensional line drawing

into 3-dimensional. Nathan put an object between every

other computer and dimmed the lights in the lab

vessels were mostly items that could hold liquid

made of glass, ceramic, or metal. Your shape sho

solid and interesting. My lab partner and I had a c

white vase (my sideways vase is at the top of this

Nathan asked us to note how the shadows on the

of our given objects were the opposite of the o

shadow.

To start, you create a basic shape with horizontal, v

and diagonal lines. Start with only a black palle

basic rendering of the shape. You should not ma

outline drawing, but instead make it a very active h

rendered drawing with lines changing direction to in

a change in the light.

The following value drawings on page 14-15 wereoutside of class. We were asked to spend 3 ho

them total (about an hour and a half each). I sav

earlier version of each, before I started adding va

each. I thought it would be interesting to see it dev


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The assignment: create three drawings

using different paintbrush sizing and

shading in Illustrator and using specic

color theory on live objects (plant, fruit,

animal) using the stylus. They should all

share one similar color. One should be

done in either cool or warm colors, the

second in analogous, and the third in

complimentary colors. Neutral colors can

be included as well. Fill the page with

these three separate color schemes.

Use shading, layering, different color

swatches and paintbrushes, and value to

create dimension and contrast.

In class critiques you will be asked aboutcraft (how well crafted or how well t he tools

were used), concept (most interesting

subject matter), and composition (most

visually attractive, use of color, how it

controls your eye).

I decided my concept would be to focus

on the bumble bee. They are going extinct

and without them our food supply would

suffer. We started an organic wildow

garden this past summer in hopes

help our fuzzy friends, and while think

about vibrant owers and color the b

came to mind for me. I dont want to ju

create a nice drawing I want it to me

something. The image I drew was bas

off of a picture I found at http://www.ic

com/photos/suraark/2307071033/. T

bee on page 16-17 is the compliment

(purple, yellow) drawing.

On page 18 is the analogous colo

(green, yellow) drawing; The image I dr

was based off of a picture I found at htt

www.shutterstock.com/blog/2012/09bugs-life-70-beautiful-macro-pics-of-o

favorite-tiny-critters/.

The last drawing is on page 20, of t

warm colors bee; The image I drew w

based off of a picture I found at htt

news.yahoo.com/buggin-1037009

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ALPHABETOur assignment for this week was to create a

font using the pen tool in Illustrator. The pen

tool is different from what we were previously

working with, the paintbrush, because with it you

create shapes not drawings. At the very least,

we were to create an uppercase font A through

Z. Each letter visually similar, and all the same

height. If we had time, we could continue on to

the lowercase alphabet and numbers 1-10. I

only had time to create the uppercase font but

hope to get back in and add more to it.

Why print digital art? Producing tangible versions

of your work is important so that a discussion

is possible a critique. In a class crique, you

experience objects in a different way: light

shining in eyes (screen) verses bouncing off

paper (surface). There is a difference between

how colors function whether theyre on screen

or on a surface.

In additive primary colors (print): CMYK (cyan,

magenta, yellow, black) are pigments. These

print tones / images designed for print such as

periodicals, or signs used in advertising. If you

add all the additive colors together, it would be a

black and muddy color.

In subtractive primary colors (screen): RGB

(red, green, blue) are light. RGB diodes create

a screen display. Only images that work on the

web or on screen are RGB: .jpg or .png les,

mediums like TV, Cinema, computer m

(web, PowerPoint, PREZI). if you add al

colors together, they would combine to

white.

For blogging purposes, CMYK saved

not translate onto our site. We have to

snapshot of our CMYK image, or start

CMYK image, to be able to post.

Two common page sizes and orientation:

8 x 11 letter portrait or 11 x 8 lands

11 x 17 tabloid portrait or 17 x 11 landsc

Two paper stocks, otherwise known as w

in our lab:

Standard basic typing paper

Glossy

Whether you choose standard or glossy

require different cooking instructions

printer uses dry powder which is magn

and heated to become a permanent ton

compared to the not-so-permanent ink jet

typically used at home.

Always ensure your name is in the le name

you go to print so that you dont accidenta

up paying for someone elses print. This

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To print in the Mac lab:

Open original image in Illustrator (or whatever program

youre using). Identify size and orientation of image. Look

for the # symbol on the toolbar of Illustrator, it is called

artboard tools and you can get more information about

your image. If you want to change units displayed (inches

verses pixels), go to Illustrator -> preferences -> units.

The artboard tool will show you the size, orientation, and

the center of the image.

File -> print

Print screen:

Printer: XEROX (for Color), BW (for Black & White)

Page set-up: Format for XEROX/BW

Paper size: US letter, etc.

Orientation: portrait or landscape

Click ok

Set-up:

Presets: 11 x 17 glossy or plain*

8 x 11 glossy or plain*

*mostly use plain, especially for proofs

(theyre cheaper)

Click print again

To change the orientation of a document before going t o

the print screen while still in illustrator, you would use the

aforementioned artboard tool.

We try to use tools available to create images that communicate

interesting and/or powerful things. As the creator of an image, you

have control over a lot of things. You control the movement of the

viewers eye, and the meaning of the image.

In class, Nathan hs spoken a lot about craft (how we use our hands),

concept, and composition (how we direct the eye) as we have moved

from line drawings, adding value, color, then shape. To convey an

intentional message in our artwork (how we use our brain), or to create

a concept, is to marry how we use our hands, eyes, and mind/brain.

A common use for Adobe Illustrator is to create infographics. It is

one of the two most common forms of vector graphics, and combines

information with graphics to convey a message. The other common

use for Illustrator is to create a logo - a symbol representing a

company or idea often connected to the notion of a brand. Why is a

logo important? The bottom line would be t hat brand association sells

products. To function, these vector graphics must be symbolic and

simplied. An example would be a countrys ag, or the olympic rings.

Why use vector art to create a logo or infographic? E

simplication makes the logo or infographic more cost effe

reproduce onto materials with methods like stitch, or silk scree

We looked at the history of the Apple Computer logo and wat

go from pretty complex to t he extreme simplication mentioned

Heres a little background: http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story

the-evolution-of-the-apple-logo/. The Apple logo started out as

complex line drawing of Sir Isaac Newton with the apple abou

on his head. It evolved to the rainbow apple with a bite taken

it, and then later to help the cost of production as well as t in

to the newer Apple computers coming off the line they made t

monochromatic.

In class we had ten minutes to re-create the Batman logo, by

the two logos above, it is the bottom one. Then the second tim

used Illustrator to utilize a tracing technique. The traced logo is

at the top. We essentially used Illustrator like a studio artist mi

tracing paper.

INFOGRAPHIC sketches

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I am creating an infographic explaining why bees

disappearing matters, what may be causing it, and what

we can try to do to help the them. The next few pages

will have images I have created to include in my bee

infographic. It will all make more sense once you see the

nal a few more pages in. Below is my bee-jolly roger, an

adorable yet sad part of my infographic.

In order to make a simplied version of a complex image, you rst

need to bring your image into Illustrator. Once you nd the image you

want to use, you s ave it and go to Illustrator -> File -> place. You will

then have to click down, hold the click and simultaneously press your

shift key and drag to make your image larger and place it into your

document - adding the shift key constrains proportions.

This tracing paper method can be traced (haha, pun) back to the

Renaissance. A painting such as Van Eycks portrait of Giovanni

Arnolni and his wife would have been creating using a method

called mirror projection. There is some controversy over whether

or not this method was used: https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/

magazine/article/?article_id=36085. However, this was a place in art

history where art was starting to develop into something more than

beautifully accurate. Up until that point there were a lot of religious

paintings and portraits or landscapes, but now accurate was startingto be paired with intentionally creating interest.

Art before the Renaissance was focused on craftsmanship, then it

began to be paired with composition, and in Modern Art concept was

an added focus. We are striving to utilize all three methods in this

course.

Think of an infographic as a quick read with more detailed information

buried in there.

Our assignment: choose two different images to communicate

your infographic and come up with an idea you want to represent

in infographic form. Research your idea, collect data, and create

at least two images and simplify them in an illustration. Look at

infographics that currently exist and try to gure out something you

would like to say.

To create a complex to simple logo:

Place your image in Illustrator and lock that layer. Create a new layer

and work from the background to the foreground and decide what

you want to keep of the image and what is irrelevant. Use your pen

tool to create objects by closing the form, and use the eyedropper

tool to grab a color right from the photograph. Then lock that layer,

turn off the visual (the eye), and work on the next part. You can turn

on visibility for all layers and decide whether you need more or if

youre at a good stopping point. In class we had some time to usethis method using sunglasses.

I didnt spend a lot of time on the glasses logo, so it is easy to see

that this technique can quickly render a nice useable logo.

Think of an infographic as a quick read with more detailed information buried in there

Why bees disappearing mattersWhat may be causing itWhat we can do to try to help

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Format to print our infographics: TABLOID 11x17 (p

Tip: Always move the entire fowhen saving files to the deskto backup, or to a portable devTreat the folder like a taco sh

it holds all the ingredients togeth

To backup onto the network, which should be done

and after class:

Go -> network -> artserver - connect as rstlast, pas

is your student ID # but add a zero before it. Loyour folder, rstlast, and upload the les from class.

youre done, eject from the artserver and work from

folder on the desktop. Do the same thing after

then copy the same folder to your portable device

drive. This is how you can double backup your w

two permanent places (verses just having it on a po

device). When you copy over the folder, you will

window that says an older item already exists

location. Do you want to replace it with the newe

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Our teacher, Nathan Peck, had us meet at the Art Institute

of Chicago (AIC) for his guided tour covering 500 years of

art history. Everything in this magazine includes notes from

lectures in his class, and work I have created, along with

photographs I took while at the AIC. He has been telling

us about the evolution in art, alongside our assignments

in class. We began with line drawings, with craft being the

most important part of our work. Then we started adding

color and value, and composition. Then, once we moved

onto our infographic work, concept became a huge factor.

Throughout the tour, you could see the transformation

from craft, then craft + composition, and nally craft +

composition + concept.

Craft: The Head of Saint John the Baptist Brought

before Herod,is very at. There is color, but no depth -

everything seems stacked on top of the next thing. Most

of the art in this time was made to illustrate a story in the

Bible, a still-life or a portrait of someone rich.

Notice the intricate details - t he toenails in the next piece.

In Beggar with a Dufe Coat (Philosopher), note that

Manet is starting to paint what he wants verses what he

was told to paint.

In The Bathers, you start to see more compositional

elements. There is depth; things in the background get a

little fuzzier because they are further away.

You can see in Resting, that paintings are becoming

more about the paint - the stroke of Mancini can be seen.

Painters were not trying to paint the perfect replica from

life, like a picture with the help of the camera obscura.

By now, there were even xed image photographs,

daguerrotypes, calotypes, and dry plates.

A very famous impressionist example of the artist beingpresent in their work - Water Lily Pond- the closer you

get to the painting the less it looks like the thing it is and

the more it looks like the strokes of a brush. The artist,

Claude Monet, is absolutely present.

By the time we reach modern art, all three (craft,

composition, and concept) are in full swing. A few weeks

ago in our variationsand revisions homework, we were

asked to take risks, make something that hasnt been

made before, and continue push the boundaries.

The Art Institute of Chicago Guided Tour

500 years of Art History viaNathan Peck



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Focus has shifted over the last 500 years...

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Mark Rothkos work is the most inspiring to me, out

of everything at the AIC. His color eld paintings have

completely changed the way that I view modern art. I took

an Art Since 1945 class at the AIC, and before that course

I had no real knowledge or appreciation for modern art. I

just didnt get it. However, after studying their movement(s),

and knowing that craft was absolutely present in their

work (they simply chose concept above showing off their

craftsmanship sometimes).

I can stand in front of a Rothko and stare for a longer

time than I would most other paintings. His choice of color

combinations, and the size of his paintings (especially the

larger ones that feel like they surround you, like the sky)

envelope you and it becomes a spiritual experience. For

me, I have never been as affected by a piece of visual

art in a way that something like Tchaikovskys Pathetique

Symphony can. I stand in front, or sit in front of a Rothko

and after some time, it feels like my deepest emotions

burst out. They make me feel. I believe that to be art in the

truest sense, and that is why I think of Rothkos work as a

masterpiece

MARKROTHKO

UNTITLED

(PURPLE

,WH

ITE,ANDRED

),1953

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