My first semester as a first year has been smooth. I feel like I learned more about me as a design student, artist, and writer. I also feel like I improved as a student. As a design student, at this school, I learned a lot more about different design styles. In graphic design principles 1, I learned more about colors and paint, like how they can be saturated and desaturated. I feel like I was re-introduced to painting as I haven’t done it in such a long time, probably since kindergarten. This graphic design class also helped me learn more about photoshop, and also introduced me to illustrator. I’m not great with either of the programs, but I’ve learned a few things. In my foundation of drawing class, I learned different angles like two point perspective and one point perspective. It feels like I’m learning everything little by little to get me prepared for the later semesters.
As a writer, I feel like I learned how to expand my thoughts and write a little more than I usually do. I’ve never been someone who writes that much unless it’s a topic I know a lot about. This time I feel like I had lots of evidence backing me up and I expanded my thoughts more which helped me write better. Also with the glossary, I learned new words. Words like twinge, propinquity, erroneous, biomorphic and others are words that I didn’t even know existed.
As a student, of course I learned and experienced some of the college life. Before the school made the schedules for you, but now I got to make the schedule for myself. You are responsible for checking and doing the assignments when it’s due. Of course, there’s still some more things for me to learn as a student but I’ll get there when I get there.
I think there’s still some things for me to figure out, like what do I really want to do when it comes to communication design, what style of art do I think appeals to me the most, and how long I plan on staying. All of those I feel like will be answered as I go on in college.
