Monday, September 10, 2012

My Heart...

Here is my heart masterpiece!!! enjoy :)

The code to my heart:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<script>
window.onload = function() {
var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
var context = canvas.getContext("2d");

////////////////////////////////////// start below this line ˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇ

context.beginPath();
context.rect(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
context.fillStyle = 'rgb(100,50,100)'
context.fill();


context.beginPath();
context.moveTo(400,600);
context.quadraticCurveTo(650,500,700,300);
context.bezierCurveTo(700,150,550,50,400,200);
context.bezierCurveTo(300,50,100,150,100,300);
context.quadraticCurveTo(150,500,400,600);
context.fillStyle = 'rgb(255,50,50)'
context.fill();





////////////////////////////////////// end above this line ˆˆˆˆˆˆˆˆˆˆˆˆˆˆˆ

};

</script>
</head>
<body>
<canvas id="myCanvas" width="800" height="600"></canvas>
</body>
</html>




Monday, August 27, 2012

Expectations of Digital Arts 210

  First and foremost I want to say how excited I am to start my first semester at The University of Tampa. I am a transfer student from HCC and the road to UT has been a fairly long journey. I graduated high school in 2002 and at first I honestly had no intention of going to college. After a few years of coaching tumbling in all-star cheerleading I came to the realization that while I loved coaching I was not passionate enough about it to turn it into a career. What changed you asked? Well coaching left me with a lot of spare time on my hands to explore new hobbies, one of which was photography. I found myself consumed with taking pictures! It's all I wanted to do, and I knew that it was something that I could spend my life doing. 
  
  In 2007 I enrolled at the International Academy of Design and Technology. I really didn't look much in to the school's accreditation, which would later come back to bite in the...well you know. It was there that I met a professor that had graduated from UT with a degree in Graphic Design with a concentration in photography. When I started working for the Photography Department as the Assistant Studio Manager this particular professor and I spent a lot of time discussing the industry, and through these discussions I realized that very few photographers make it in the industry without having another skill the can offer; be it videography, graphic design, ect. My mind was made up after I got my degree in photography I would get a degree in graphic design. At least that was the plan. I later found out after talking to the Admissions Office at UT that none of my credits would transfer; needless to say I was heartbroken. If I wanted a degree from UT I would have to start all over. So I spent the last two years at HCC redoing the general education classes that I had already taken.
  
  So, here I am in 2012 in my first semester at UT, and I couldn't be happier. I am extremely excited about all my classes this semester. In Beginning Digital Arts 210, the class which required me to create this blog, I am really looking forward to delving more in to programs like Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe InDesign. I have played with these programs a little bit on my own but look forward to having some formal training with them. I am also really looking forward to learning a little bit of coding. My goal is that by the end of this semester this blog will be filled with well done work that will serve as a foundation of a hopefully long and successful career in graphic design. 

Cheers, 
Jeff Chambless