Career Synthesis Essay: Graphic Design

Art was a way for students to express their inner thoughts and views creatively. For senior Lauren Mabe art was a way to express herself in various ways. Students’ artwork was inspiring to many and held significant meaning. “Art is a form of personal expression. It teaches everyone how to observe life in every detail. It teaches people how to develop concepts and think more deeply about a topic. As an artist, art creates a form of pride- there is nothing better than stepping back from something you have created and saying ‘Wow, I actually did that!’ The only thing better than that feeling is when someone pays you for it,” said Ms. Wilson.

“You’ll never make a living as an artist,” a phrase I have heard nonstop from family, friends, and just about everyone growing up. A phrase I constantly told myself while trying to pick my major when I made the big transition in going to college. Coming from a family of doctors, veterinarians, and other various medical careers, it was almost unheard of to pursue a career in the arts. I explored business, advertising, teaching, and many other careers, but in the end, I decided to place happiness over wealthiness and I chose to go through with a career path in Visual Communication Design. Looking more into an art major and questioning if I had made the right decision, I learned that so many of the things people say about artists are just rumours or myths. In today’s society, artists are not starving, they are thriving and we need them to keep the world running. Unlike myself, many people decide to not get a job in the arts because they listen to the false claims of the people that tell them that they will become a starving artist and have no money. In reality, creative jobs are extremely needed in today 's society, and there are actually very many perks in pursuing an art career. Some of the many perks include, being known to make an average amount of money, have little to no decrease in job outlook, being statistically happier than other careers, while making others and the world around you a much more positive place.

My passion is found in art. Not drawing or painting though, it is Graphic design. At Tuscola Technology Center, I was enrolled in the Graphic Communications program. We design and create different pieces. Whether it is shirts, business cards, brochures, flyers, bags, etc. We produce it. There are many different processes used in graphics. I have learned all of the steps to be able to create anything I want to. Everything in graphics uses precise measurements collaborating with an eye for design aspects. Learning color harmonies is also a big part of graphic design. Color elicits emotional responses in a person. This helps to determine what colors and harmonies should be used. Art can be both formal and informal. If a person would like a project

While working as a designer, I developed own illustration style using pens and watercolours. Since these two materials are readily accessible and easy to learn, I believe this method would be useful and enough for the public to express their ideas and bring a sense of pride and accomplishment. Throughout my years of teaching high school students at the Smile Art Institute of South Korea, I successfully aided students in honing their artistic abilities through the use of various mediums including pastels and watercolours – students were taught to create 2D and 3D artworks with precision description. I would like to share these experiences with others, who may think art as “difficult”, or requiring “natural talent”, and become a positive influence in approaching artistic

As the only child, of my mother, I often faced the problem of not having someone to play with forcing more creativity. I often did various arts and crafts projects, but I found that I enjoyed drawing the most. With each drawing I become completely engrossed partially because it is a self-taught skill that requires focus, but also because I must be patient with myself as I work towards what I envision and learn new techniques. The Art of Drawing is a skill that I can continuously develop and perfect. The patience that my artwork teaches goes beyond the work itself. It demonstrates the importance of accepting my weaknesses and working towards bettering them. I am able to properly release the struggles I encounter and not be consumed because of my artwork. Creating my drawings is more than expression, but also self-discovery because I can be more honest with myself, embracing who I am and what I feel. However, from time to time I do encounter “artist block” and the exhibitions held at the museum of fine arts at Florida State University could provide inspiration much like my environment here at Spelman

“The artist is the compass which, through the raging of the storm, points steadily to the north，” said by Romain Rolland. If people could give an accurate concept of art , then it was better to say that art gave the artist a firm goal and motivation. At a young age, I did not have a deep understanding of art. In my memory, drawing a few pictures of comic and having art classes in my elementary school in China that was the closest way to learn art. Although I liked painting, I did not choose it as my major in my high school and university without the support of my family. However, fortunately I had a good chance to live and study in New York with my family in the winter of 2014. If I could not learn painting that was a kind of regret in the first two decades of my life, then I might have the opportunity to make up for this regret in after years. I was very grateful to the art to bring my enthusiasm, so I could firmly choose the art design as a new professional in QCC and have more opportunities to learn about art.

When I was in fourth grade, I had already become an avid Internet user. In between visits to a variety of video game websites, I stumbled upon a particular section of Youtube: the art category. The users would post sped up videos of them drawing wide eyed girls with exaggerated bangs in MSPaint and create ten second animations using Windows Movie Maker. Needless to say, I was hooked. While their art wasn’t revolutionary, still, I watched in awe. Even though I was aware of the talent of the greats like Da Vinci and Van Gogh, there was a certain disconnect between them and myself that didn’t inspire me at the time. However, young girls, like myself, building an audience through their art was something chimerical, and seemed just obtainable enough to inspire me to pursue art. So, I downloaded GIMP, Paint Tool Sai, Photoshop, and a myriad of other drawing programs and persisted to draw digitally, despite only using a measly mouse as my tool of choice.

Humans have a long history of expressing ourselves through medium for varying reasons that have not always had to do with survival. We as a species have continued to try and portray our visons from inside the mind to the tangible world for our fellow beings by using drawings. There are a multitude of ways that the mind can reach our world. Some ways are seen as more familiar than others. If there are more familiar ways, then there is also a less familiar way. The fine arts such as art are what separates a satirical essay from a Grecian statue. Jeanette Winterson examines what art means to in our larger society and how to learn to truly appreciate and experience art.

I have always had a passion for art and design. Starting around age seven I really started to enjoy drawing. I became very interested in picking an image and trying to replicate or recreate an image as close as I could. Once I got a little older I began taking a little more artistic control and began adding my own style to my drawings. Now I work every day to hone in and perfect my style while also keeping well versed in the other styles and types of drawing. I want to go to a school of art and design because that is my passion. I want nothing more in life than to be able to call my career enjoyable, not a job. I never want to work a day in my life, and with graphic design and drawing I can achieve that. I also want to work on my technical

I am currently working towards an Associates Degree in Fine Arts at Green River Community College and I hope to major in Graphic Design. I choose this career because of my aunt and uncles inspiration. They both work in the Graphic Design field and the work that they have shown me in the past caught my attention. My main goal in obtaining a Bachelors Degree is for my future. I want to be able to be financially stable and not have to worry if I am going to make ends meet. It is important to me to be able to achieve this goal because growing up my family struggled with money and they taught me that it is important to be responsible and learn from their

In the past, art, specifically fine art, has not only been a portal to create emotion , but has transformed in order to inform audiences as well as for novelty purposes. Novelist, D. H. Lawrence, once stated that “ the essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind”(citation here later). Art for long has been a cathartic experience and its components of morals and educational intent can surely also function in tandem as an individual commentary on reality. One artist that encompasses these ideals include Kara Walker. Walker is most known for her silhouette work in which she commonly portrays

The career that I have chosen to potentially go into is the graphics designer industry. Graphics designers create visual concepts whether it is by hand or on the computer software. Designers develop the production design for advertising as well as for brochures. Some duties of the graphic designer would be to: create graphics for websites, meet with clients, determine the message of the design, and finally, to review errors before publication. In the career choice, one would work with texts as well as images.

From the time I was a little girl till now, I have consistently changed my mind on what I wanted to do for a career as I got older. Like every other little kid, I dreamed of being many things including: a professional gymnast, pop star, FBI agent, scrapbook artist, astronaut, orthopedic surgeon, chef, criminal science and the first person to cure cancer. I continued to change my mind until I reached my freshman year of basketball when I helped teach kindergarten through third grade at a summer camp for a week straight. Following, I started finding jobs that involved little kids and I fell in love with being around them. This experience made me realized that maybe an FBI agent or a pop star were not the career paths I was destined for.

If plan A doesn’t work out then this is were my plan B comes in. My plan B is wanting to become an interior designer. Becoming an interior designer is of interest to me because Interior designing consists of having the ability to be coordinate in many ways

The vocational area of my selection is Graphic Design. Graphic Design is the art or skill of using typography and images to compose a visual message, usually conveyed in magazine covers, book covers, advertisements, posters and so on. It uses a variety of software, from the likes of adobe photoshop to the simple Microsoft word, but may also be done by hand by using paints and stencils. Following this vocational area, I will now further explore what graphic design is, where it comes from and the opportunities and disadvantages that it may bring forth.