Tally's Tales

In the beginning of making my website I tried to start from scratch. I got next to nothing done. It took me three weeks to get even the CSS done for my web page. That in itself didn’t get far either. I couldn’t figure out a lot of things and took way too long trying to figure things out. In the end I just kinda felt like my page wasn’t going to get any better. I thankfully had a friend help me out and last moment got my page done. However I didn’t know I had to make a page for every link. With only one day to make at least 4 pages I wasn’t going to make it. I did the most and best I could to finish and I did.

My portfolio and gallery are so basic and ill it makes me sick. If I had figured out more things I would have been able to make a decent looking web page. I’m being a little too negative though. I cant change what has already happened. I have to just keep trying to do better. I did basic quick info and did not have time or hope to do anything overly creative. More importantly I did manage to post a few photos on my portfolio.  They look nice and I hope I can go back and fix things later.

For later on, I hope to learn something that I can be good at. Something that can make me different from others would make me happy. Individuality is important and my current art style is not good at all. Practice makes perfect but when it comes to art there is no such thing as perfect.A persons own styles defines their ideal “perfect”. I am trying to find what I like but I honestly can not. I can’t imagine what I will be doing in my future. Despite my choices I do not see myself doing anything that involves anything I have been taught. I like knowing things just for fun. I know lots about random things such as Runes,  how things are made, and  how they function. I also know a lot about cooking. I do not want to be a cook though. In all honesty in the end I am not really good with technology and I am not excited about senor year.

My page has no real use outside of school. I don’t plan on doing much with my website. I do not plan on becoming anything big. I kinda just want to pass without failing at life. Im not really good at coding or technology as a whole but I’ll keep trying to do my best. I want my website to look nice but it’ll take a long time.
My Boroughs and Chapin piece is my only joy right now. I made my sculpture and carefully sewed rose petals together. I had two originally but the weather caused one of  my pieces to break and shatter to pieces. I only had one left and I sent it in. The sculpture I sent in was yellow with red petals. The piece in a whole has no real meaning. I just like making things when I have time (thats rare for me). My other project, Earth day at the Bay, has kept me busy with Adobe Illustrator. I drew a blank, literally, and couldn’t think of any good ideas. I decided to reuse a background I had made a while back and added a few things.  I added a few shells and starfish along with a picnic type scene. I made a checkered blanket with a person laying down on it next to a picnic basket. When I think of a day at a bay, I think of a picnic and a sunny day. I did not use any fancy font because I wanted the picture to be the main idea.

The rest of my grades are doing very well. I have all A’s but teachers are still throwing things at me to do. Im very busy keeping my grades high. Most of my classes, I have a grade above a 93 but in a certain class the teacher is crazy and has been packing everyone down with homework. I don’t think that all teachers think about what kids do after school. I have bad nerves and never have time to rest.  I am constantly helping out people and trying to sleep when I can. I hope my grades stay high for the rest of the year.

This week has kept me super busy with everything. I have had no time to sleep and I really want to crawl in a hole and rest for about ten years. My blog is late because I got sick over the weekend and couldn’t function well. Anyways the HOPE project I sent in was, in my mind actually very well. I think I had some good ideas. I hope that I am able to make anything noteworthy. The colors I used are basic palmetto colors like a beach. Fonts? I have no idea which ones I used. My tag line was ,”Helping Our People Everywhere.” I think it was a pretty good Idea so I hope it was ok.

My first thoughts on dreamweaver are,”what the heck?” I am still Re studying code academy. I understood the basics but since we rushed through I never had enough time to actually learn it. I am a very busy person with out of school life and school life. Other teachers think its a good idea to load kids with ,”not a lot,” of homework even though it’s really a lot. Dreamweaver is making a little sense but the program in a whole is not a dream weaver, its a nightmare maker.

The SAT was the best worst day of my life. It was a whole day dedicated to doing nothing except answer questions with a 25% chance of getting one of them right. The downside was the school treated the test day as a normal day so I spent the rest of my day making up things I missed in other classes.  I think I did ok. I never got my PSAT scores back so I have no idea how I may have done on SAT. I honestly don’t care. I need to see where I am anyways. If I fail what else in new? I will rise one day and accomplish something one day, just not today. I am to packed down with responsibilities and assignments.

College applying time is coming near. My future, I have no idea. Whatever happens happens. I will just wait and hope. I don’t really see myself doing anything extravagant. I plan to go to HGTC or Coastal Carolina. If I can afford them. My parents think I’ll get a lot of scholarships but I doubt it. I honestly stopped trying to care and overthink life about mid way last year. Im just going to let what happens happen.

My kintecic type project was bad. I think it looked bad. The others were really good. I liked everyone else. They understood much better at After effects than me. I have trouble self learning technology. My favorite overall was probably either Milo’s or Bryson’s. The coordination and background affects were great. I love the way they added detail and good effects. Their backgrounds were good too. Design in them were both well planned and carried out.

Art fields is giving me a hard time. I took a photo that I doubt will make it into the show. My photo was a wooden winter tree my brother made for my mom before he left. I was planning to take a photo of something better but it was dark and gloomy all day. That weather is normally photo perfect but it is way too dark for a good photo. The rain keeps animals away too so I was down on luck. I just went on instinct and snapped a few photos before my camera died. Editing and finding how big the photo was, drive me crazy. I switched from Lightroom to Photoshop and had to resize my photo.

Code academy is ok. It is understandable but I don’t like when the commands or instructions are not clear. I messed up trying to find out how to type in the information about ten times. I have been working on it at my house and it is working fine. The only problem is when my keyboard acts up. I have to re type things once in a while due to the venues acting on its own.

Valentines day used to be fun. I don’t like it or really celebrate it. I don’t really like the idea of a day of romance. I think its kinda sappy. As a kid it used to be fun with grandma but after she died we didn’t really give chocolates or valentines to each other anymore. In all honestly we take April fools day more seriously than Valentines day. I also have to celebrate my sister and nephew’s birthday. They were both born on Valentines day so we mainly just celebrate birthdays. Two days after is my other nephews birthday so I stay occupied. Valentines is on a Wednesday so I have no time to party. That night is church so Ill be sleeping and probably working on school.

My kinetic type project is stressing me out a lot. I worked on it after school and put in extra minutes. It messed up many times for no real reason besides technical difficulty. I had it completely done and I hate how it looks. I feel like I could of made it look a lot better but I don’t have the skill or time to fix it now. It is now Monday because last Friday I attended an Act and Sat test prep thing. I don’t know why I did. It kept me from getting important stuff done. Anyway my final project has been saved and I have been mentally preparing myself for the video. Today after I had saved it for my presentation my background decided to start deleting itself.  I am in a mode of anxiousness and am hoping it does not affect my saved final draft.

The art shows are among my list of things that I have to get done. I plan to send in a photo and my 3d art. I do not have a name for my piece but I’m trying my best to get my stuff done quickly. My piece is made from flower petals I sewed together into a dress. I am still working on them at home. It is hard finding time to do things tough. I have many personal things to deal with. I am altogether not too excited about the shows. My art is far from good so I do not expect too much. I feel like I could do better but I do not know really how.

My classes this semester are ok. I do not like half of them. They are somewhat good. I do like my first block. It is Pre-cal and it is very good. I do not always know whats going on but I can pick up quickly. I do not like Spanish at all. There is way too much busy work and I do not like Spanish. It is not one of my favorite languages. Either way my second semester is kind of a pain. I hope I’ll be ok.

My first semester was fairly easy and went smoothly. Excluding Chemistry everything was fine. My final grades were ok, nothing to brag about. They were ok and I passed. Thats all that matters. I wished they were better but I can’t do anything about them now. I accomplished nothing. I try but I’m not that good at anything. I do what I can and am going to try harder this semester. I want to get good grades I can be proud of.

My Kinetic typography project is going underway fairly good. I had a problem last week with my background disappearing. Along with other errors I had to re place items and re-do my background. It is ok though. I have till Friday to put everything I want in my video and it should be ok by then.

Effects I have discovered are very few. I have read them all but making them fix my video is hard. I have learned how to make things appear in a variety of ways. Making things disappear is also something I have found but not yet completely understood. I have learned also how to use After effects in a basic manner. Backgrounds gave me some hard time because the zoom function is a little quirky.

My video progress in a whole is going very good. If  can get things to work how I want them, everything should look decent. My background as I stated before completely disappeared so I had to fix it.  I have got the entire song typed but the main trouble is getting the effects to work.If my video decides to delete stuff again I will have a problem. Working with my background can be easy but editing them in the right order is a handful. I have to put them in order then make sure one isn’t too long. The back ground waves are supposed to move at a decent pace not too fast or too slow. Besides that making the background fit the screen takes time. I have to adjust the background so that the others match. It is not too bad as a whole. I just hope my project stays together.

This week in Photoshop I have learned more about layers and how to add a glow to letters and words. I think it will be useful later on when I decide to edit the photos of my cosplays. Along with that I also learned how to hide the bleed in my photos . That way I will be able to show people what their poster or photo will look like without the lines I used as guides. I found this a little easier to understand than the stuff in the beginning.

My favorite art blog is Paprika Studios. They draw their art and sell it at animecons. I love their art styles. They have been to a few of the cons I have visited. I get something from them every time I see them. I do not know what program they use but their art is good. It is based more on the chibi or little cute design. They draw characters from my favorite shows along with video games.

My favorite artist is a person on my Instagram. I do not know their names but their art is so cute. It looks so alive and happy. They draw animals with the prettiest colors. The art is really inspiring and makes me happy. My favorite thing they draw are foxes. I love the color palette they uses for the fur colors.

My work in Photoshop has me busy. I have decided to use Illustrator to gain my sanity back from the madness. I have started one of my two rough drafts. I have started my Perfection candy bar design. My logo is,”Who says you can’t buy perfection?” I plan to start my second design as soon as I get my basic stuff done. My second design is called the Better Bar. My slogan is,” Make your day better with a Better bar!” I have been working upside down and it has been causing chaos for me mentally. I have made a mascot and logo but the information for the nutrition facts is killing me. Designing is a little easy, but making it work on screen is harder. I have made great progress and hope to get done with results I like.

This week in Photoshop my class and I have been working with layer groups. I have learned how to color a black and white picture with a layer. I love the layers in photoshop. It is my favorite thing to work with on photoshop. Aside from layers I have also learned how to add text, merge and flatten layers, The latest thing I have been working on was an event flyer. The chapter starts off explain how to use rulers and guides. I learned also how to import an image six different ways. One way that I still haven’t fully understood is using the Bridge to browse photos. I got it to work a little and I was also able to see all types of information, but I had trouble getting the photo to appear in my Photoshop. I will continue to try to figure it out.

On Wednesday I attempted to edit a photo of my teacher as a kid. The photo itself is still under way. I am having trouble choosing colors that go well in the picture. The colors are in RGB so its a little too bright for the picture.

Besides the photos I have been editing, I have ben working on thumbnails for a candy bar wrapper. I am doing my wrapper based on either celtic runes, a common response or a children stories. I have three designs so far and can’t wait to get them in color. The first one is based off of  the common response of ,”I do not know.” When people ask what they want, the response is,” I don’t know.”  Therefore my candy bar shall recalled the I Don’t Know. My second design is based off the child’s tale, Hanzel and Grettle. The name I have made for it was Witches Walkway. My last one is based off celtic runes. The first letter is actually a celtic rune for joy. Chocolate is good and brings joy. I have not decided which one I like best yet. I plan to be done by the next two days.Outside from class I have been working a little with photography, but it has been hard due to cld weather, tons of rain, and family life.
This week has gone by so fast, next week will defiantly be busy.