Amor & Keisuke

         Amor and Keisuke’s presentation was very interactive and I really enjoyed listening to all the things they had to say. I loved listening to their story it was so inspirational. I think that it was very brave of them to just drop everything despite of all the risk and all of the troubles they had to face. Their story honestly sounded like something off of a movie. Amor always knew that she wanted to go to Art Center and she worked her butt off and took a huge risk to pursue and follow the dreams she had since she was a little nugget. She even found the love of her life while on this journey. I just really had fun listening to all of it.

            The idea that opportunities don’t just jump out in front of you was reinforced in my mind after that lecture. Not to mention their art was incredible. You could see that art just runs in their veins as naturally as blood does. It was beautiful work. They use their talents to try and improve the new world and the future, which I find to be amazing. Most arts just want to express a deep feeling they have to change or inspire the way someone looks at the world; Amor and Keisuke express their feelings, but they use their art to change the world itself, not just the way we look at it.

            I do look forward to maybe getting the chance to work with them or sit down and talk to them more. I would love to get a better feel of what they were going through when they decided to up and move to Germany for their internship. I feel like listening to what they felt in more depth might help me feel a little better about pursuing this field whole heartedly, and more normal for being a little afraid of taking those risks. I have always been one to take risks, but there is always a deep fear stirring within which I am sure everyone feels, but it would be nice to get some reassurance from someone who it worked out well for.

Jim Krause

Jim Krause’s videos were pretty educational. He seemed to repeat himself a lot, but it helped the information stick better. I do wish that it were a little more fun just so I felt more engaged, like the other videos we watched I felt more engaged because the people we watched just gleamed with excitement for the jobs they had and the things they did. Otherwise, it was very educational and I learned a good amount about the way colors work.

He broke it down to 3 simple rules and I feel like that made it a lot easier to wrap your head around, especially since the color palette is such a broad subject. There are so many colors in the world, and it’s easy to get lost in which ones to choose from while working in design, any art for that matter.

I know that personally I have trouble with color combinations a lot of the time while drawing. My favorite medium is pencil. Color pencils and regular pencils. When I am trying to decide on how I should color in my more abstract pieces I recently started referring to the book and thinking back to what I learned from watching the video of Jim. It’s been surprisingly helpful. Turns out all his repetition was useful.

I even learned something about colors that I never knew about. I learned that all colors are just the primary colors, but with different saturations, different tints, different tones, and different values. I always thought it was a series of colors, but now I know it all originated from a set of three simple colors.