it's been awhile...i miss you.

Yeah...so i guess it's been some time since my last post on here. And for that, i apologize.

See, last month I was in Physics (which was very easy and boring since I just took it not too long ago) and Digital Audio Design (which is definitely not my cup of tea). What I'm trying to get at, is that I really haven't had anything worth posting for the last month or so.

However, I was somewhat busy last month with a website that I made for RhythmInTwenty.  You should check it out! I even made a little game inside the website. On each page of the site, there's a little tiny sparkle that will appear after everything else has loaded. Click on the sparkles! It's fun! Trust me...I play it all day while I'm in class, even though I created it and I know exactly where each sparkle will appear.
So now that you've had your fun trying to locate all the sparkles at RhythmInTwenty, you might be asking yourself, "But Aaron, what are you up to this month?"

And guess what...I'm about to tell you.

This month...I...AM...STOKED!  I've got two classes, "Motion Graphics" and "Typography and Page Layout".  Both of which, I'm very excited for.  

In Motion Graphics, we'll be using Adobe After Effects to make some sweet...well...motion graphics.  I guess the name of the class is pretty self-explanatory.  

And then in TPL, we'll be using Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign to use type in some very interesting ways.  For our first project, we had to choose one word, any word like cityscape, rain, person, whatever.  And then we had to illustrate that word, using only that word.  That sounds really confusing.  

Anyway, here's what I came up with.

So, the word I chose was "washington", so everything that you see in the picture, is made out of the word "washington."  Get it? Got it? Good.  Zoom in for added awesomeness.  (sorry about the crappy .jpg quality....it's the best i can do)

 

So with crazy, fun classes such as these....I probably won't be sleeping much this month.  You better check back often. Marvelous things will be flooding these black pages very soon.

Yours Truly,
Aaron J Harms

Editorial Ill-US-trat-ion

For my final project for ADG, we had to create a full page illustration for a magazine article.  We had a couple different article titles that we had to choose from, and then we had to include that title in our illustration somehow.  The title I chose was "Robot Future Poses Hard Questions".  So without further ado...



All photos and illustrations that we used had to be our own. So I ended up shooting and putting everything together in a little less than 24 hours. The robot in the picture was painted in photoshop, which I'm not particularly proud of. Anyway, I think it turned out alright. It's a little congested, but i kind of wanted to make it look like a collage of some sort. Enough about me...what do you think?

statuS meteR...

so...in our ADG class, we had one of our lab specialists (Amy Something-or-other) come in and give a presentation/tutorial on painting techniques in photoshop.  pretty much like traditional painting, but on a computer screen.  it was amazing!  the things she could create in photoshop from absolute scratch blew my mind!  she used to be a sort of concept artist/digital painter and her work was incredible.

anyway...then we got a photoshop assignment to create some sort of status meter, like one you would see in a video game.  the meter also had to have a scale from 1-10. so for my meter, i decided to apply some of the same painting techniques that she showed us in class.  this was an in-lab assignment, so we only had 4 hours to work on it, which for me, was only 2.5 hours since i was a little late to class.  whoops!  so....here's the (not-so-final) final.

for my scale, each half of a bar would represent 1 out of 10. so in the picture...it's displaying 9 out of 10. get it?

for you photoshop junkies out there, this whole thing was done with brushes only, minus the one outer glow and the drop shadows under the status bars.

it definitely could have been better, but im proud of it, knowing that i pulled it off in a little over 2 hours.

also, be expecting some sort of still life painting in the next coming weeks.

ADG:First Project

so....I've gotten a bit lazy with this blog, and for that I apologize. I mean, I'm letting down all of my devoted readers...all....ummmm...12 of them (including me). im deeply sorry.

anyway, this month im taking "advanced computer graphics" and "geometry and measurement (very lame)". im having an awesome time in ADG(which is Full Sail's acronym for "advanced computer graphics"), diving even deeper into Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. I'm loving it! Our first project in this class was to create a realistic looking mechanical object of our choice. I chose my cell phone. here's the final product.  (this .png is kind of bad quality, but you get the gest)



i would tell you how many hours this illustration took me, but you wouldn't believe me if i told you. lets just say its somewhere around 10-15 hours. i told you you wouldn't believe me. this type of work is very time consuming. wait, i just told you how long it took me even though i said that i wouldn't. dang, im an idiot!

whelp, until next time. peace.

word on the street....

...a new website for my artwork is starting to take shape. ive got some pretty wicked plans for it...you just wait



because blogs are lame....handy...but lame

"BUSHISMS" piece

I did this painting in one day...it took about 10 hours to do the masking and the words. The words are a collection of stupid things that Bush has said in the past, aka "Bushisms." Here's a complete list of everything that is written on it, in the correct order. (and yes, i know that i had one quote on there twice...whoops!)

• Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?
• Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.
• I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.
• I hear there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft.
• I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.
• You work three jobs? … Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that.
• Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country.
• They misunderestimated me.
• Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?
• Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
• There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.
• The decisions we make in Washington have a direct impact on the people in our country, obviously.
• All I can tell you is when the governor calls, I answer his phone.
• My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions
• We're kicking ass.
• I'm going to try to see if I can remember as much to make it sound like I'm smart on the subject
• And my concern, David, is several.
• I will not withdraw, even if Laura and Barney are the only ones supporting me.
• It’s a heck of a place to bring your family.
• Those who enter the country illegally violate the law.
• Wow! Brazil is big.
• It's totally wiped out. ... It's devastating, it's got to be doubly devastating on the ground.
• I can only speak to myself.
• It's in our country's interests to find those who would do harm to us and get them out of harm's way.
• I appreciate my love for Laura.
• I understand there's a suspicion that we--we're too security-conscience.
• I think we are welcomed. But it was not a peaceful welcome.
• We got the best workforce in America—in the world.
• Listen, I want to thank leaders of the—in the faith—faith-based and community-based community for being here.

Master Peesh

Here's a painting that I did for Digital Arts and Design. we're learning about colors; tint, tone, shade, etc. my instructor told me that if i added a background, it would be a "strong piece". haha...i think its funny when people refer to paintings as "pieces". it just sounds so fine-artsy to me.

oh, and the yellow-ish parts are actually gold paint...and it shines in the light! id say its wicked sweet if you ask me!