jQuery Photo Gallery

Created a Photo Gallery using Dream Weaver with a jQuery Photo Gallery. Images done in Photo Shop and then put them all in the right folders. Played around with some coding then uploaded to the site.

Thoughts:  Neat way to display some of my art creations from the past year. Enjoy making websites.

Lesson Learned:  Got a refresher for Dream Weaver and learned how to use another piece of jquery.

On the plus side, I can update this and link this site into another site that I plan on building.

Twilight Zone

Started out by making graphics in Photo Shop and Illustrator, borrowed a couple of pics from Pixabay. The pics were pulled into After Affects, where I was able to make multiple compositions to animate several different pieces. Once I composed the video, it was brought into Premiere Pro where I was able to play around with some soundtracks. (Go to sleep)

Thoughts:  My dreams tend to be filled with the most random things, so this was kinda fun to make.

Lesson Learned:  Making lots of compositions inside of one another was easier than I thought. It did help out in saving time. I also found that if you make a mistake in a comp that was embedded inside another comp, that it is a little harder to go back and find it.

On the up side, I now have my very own version of the Twilight Zone Intro!

Logos - Fishing + Outdoors

Had to create two logos for a local start-up business using 2 colors at the most. They wanted a fishing theme and an outdoors theme. Designed the logos using Illustrator.

Thoughts:  Made them very basic, for some reason I kept thinking about stitching.

Lesson Learned: Making logos, not easy. Research them and get to know their product, services and persona!

On the plus side, I get to look forward to seeing this companies products out there on the shelves!

Fonts - Capital Letters

Created these CAPITAL letters for a font set called Ribbony. Designed them using Illustrater with a brush that I made. Then pulled in each letter to Font Creater to make a ttf file.

Thoughts:  Interesting outcome, excited to see what concepts I can conjure up, using my very own text!

Lesson Learned:  Watch the ENTIRE video before starting project. Had to redo the entire thing due to the little curve ball at the end.  ( do not paste in small letters ).

On the plus side, plenty of practice with the new program, and with the copy and paste commands.

Vinyl Stickers

Created these designs in Illustrator, then transferred the files into the Vinyl Cutter program and the machine cut them out for me. Pulled off the excess vinyl, covered them with transfer tape and put the sticker onto the bottom of my bookshelf.

Thoughts:  Brings a little POP into the corner of my bookshelf, it's no longer just white and boring,

Lesson Learned:  READ the assignment first! I had 2 colors instead of 3 colors, so I had to create another sticker.

On the up side, now my notebook got itself a little POP and I got more practice with the machine.

Animated PS Brushes

This short video was created by using Photoshop brushes and filters, then animated in After Effects. Threw in a few sounds effects from freesound.org (thank you!) and added the title in Premiere Pro.

Thoughts:  Makes me Wanna go WILD! Who wouldn't want to go climb a tree in the snow and play ball with a wolf?

Lesson Learned:  Be VERY CAUTIOUS when downloading Photoshop brushes. You can get a virus, I did. If I knew which file it was the virus came in I would share that info, but I tend to download a few at the same time. Never Again!

On the plus side of that, I made a few of my own Photoshop brushes, including the WILDLIFE one I used in this video. 

Who is MistieLynn?

Mistie Lynn is a Digital Design student at Pierce College.

She enjoys creating things and is excited to learn how to make her imagination come to life.

Mistie started her career out in Behavior Modification working with troubled teens and later found herself working in Mental Health, where she was introduced to a new type of therapy that was based on healing art.

Fascinated by the benefits of Art Therapy, she decided to follow her heart and help those in need creatively release their flow of emotions into works of art.

Her career goal is to one day become an Art Therapist.