The semester is coming to a close. In a few months, I will no longer be a student in Art, Design, and Digital Culture. Let’s be honest, if this class did not fulfill one of my requirements in the College of Arts and Sciences, I am not sure I would have even Read more…
Sound, as we have learned this semester, plays a significant role in art. We did a project earlier entitled “Sound Studies” in which each student recorded a sound, interpreted it visually, and then represented that image through the platform Adobe Illustrator. These sounds were specifically asked to NOT be music, but something Read more…
Movie posters serves an important function within the marketing of movies. It hangs outside of numerous cinemas around the world, and they have to provide a succinct summary of the movie in a single picture that is also visually intriguing so that it could attract its viewers at first glance. Read more…
As an avid gamer, I am always fascinated by the creativity of game designer as well as the bold artistic decisions they made. In a game, the design and the rendering of the characters and environment serves as an important bridge between the game’s interactive component and the individual player. Read more…
As I walk through the streets of Philadelphia, there have been several occasions when I felt myself being drawn in by the intricacy and colorful nature of the art and graffiti around me. This photo of Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens exemplifies one such instance, in which the sheer complexity and interwoven Read more…
Plein air painting is the act of going outdoors to paint real-life environments. This practice helps many artists come to understand how to develop a landscape. Many famous artists such as Monet and Renoir have taken part in plein air painting. Plein Airpril, similar to other monthly art trends like Read more…
Who is Glenn Ligon? Glenn Ligon is an American conceptual artist. He was born in South Bronx and attended RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) for 2 years before transferring to Wesleyan. Ligon’s work deals with topics relating to African American queer identity. He also references quotes by famous African Read more…
What do you do when you run out of ideas for the color scheme for the illustration you want to create? the new web app? the new character design? the new book cover? new logo? new skin? new as;lfhsadf;lf. Coolors comes for the rescue for all. Basically, coolors is a Read more…
After learning about artists during this semester, I realized I never thought much about my own country’s past and present artists. I knew some of the artists in these posts, such as Marta Minujin, but I was not aware of others, such as Leonor Fini. Therefore, I would like to Read more…
HeavyPaint is a free digital painting app that mimics traditional painting techniques. Compared to other modern digital art applications with multiple levels of toolsets, HeavyPaint has only a color chooser and seven buttons representing a set of seven different brushes: two different fill gradients, a blender, and four uniquely textured Read more…