Putting It All Together

Week 9:

I find that I am often better at planning events than seeing that they happen. This might say something about my personality or it may say something about how I was raised...either way, I don't want to stay this way forever. I would like to be able to creatively make plans and then follow through with them. This is why I believe that I will look back on my IDD 480 class with great gratitude-because it challenged me to plan creatively and because of grading (and since it's kind of important that I graduate) I had to follow through with my plans.

This week I learned a great deal about putting all of my work into an interactive portfolio. I have been collecting work for my portfolio over the past month or so and doing my best to weed out the good, the bad, and the unimpressive. Now I am working on making the work that I have chosen to use look the best that it can. I have a bunch of cartoons and hand drawn illustrations that look nice in person, but once I scanned them in, look a little nightmarish! I did not realize that scanners could pick up eraser lines as well as they apparently can. To make these piece of work look their absolute best, I have been going over the eraser lines in Photoshop and cleaning up any rough edges. I have been pleased with the results so far, but it does take some times. Oh well, I guess it takes work to get work...

Creating the design for my interactive portfolio also involves a good deal of planning. I swear, I can procrastinate like no tomorrow (I think that I am actually somewhat notorious for it around the Quinnipiac campus) and doing so for my portfolio interface was no exception. But...I have finally started to get my act together (sort of) and am just about prepared to make my portfolio interface a real live website. Now the trick will be getting myself in gear and keeping myself on a schedule!