An Overview of My Design Career

Way back in my childhood, I wanted to learn how to draw and become an artist. I had a strong interest in drawing when I was a lot younger. Still, I never really improved upon my skills until high school, when I took many different art courses and learned new techniques, design programs, and even learning how to construct a proper art portfolio to show off my work and my reflective thoughts on that work. Fast forward to about three months ago, right about when I first started taking this course. Intro to Design was a lot different from the fundamental art class I had taken years before. This class focused more on the idea of doing your work in ways that help convey a message or a sort of idea. While my art classes prior were more selfexpressionist, this class was trying to prepare us to work with clientele and it felt that way due to how limiting some of these projects were. I felt less free with some of these projects, and while I could rest in that I just needed to have my projects meet the

This was a t-shit logo I created with Adobe Illustrator. It was my final class project for the first semester I took Graphic Design in high school rubric expectations, I sometimes wanted to go above and beyond, but there were guidelines I had to follow with every project. I understand that this course was just learning the basics, but it kind of scrapes up against my past experience. Despite all that experience, I found a few of these projects challenging due to the limitations set upon me, but I also learned through the course that sometimes less is more. Not everything needs to be complex and beautiful. I can just be black text on a white background and still stand out in its own right.