{"id":4,"date":"2019-05-22T19:27:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T19:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comdma.com\/staffors\/?p=4"},"modified":"2022-03-10T17:22:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T17:22:59","slug":"blog-1-lab-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comdma.com\/staffors\/2019\/05\/22\/blog-1-lab-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog 1, Lab 0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For our first assignment in DMA 214, we had to submit two sketches, one analog and one digital using Figma. I&#8217;d never heard of Figma before this but I already like it much more than I like Illustrator. It seems like what Illustrator would be if it could freely update without keeping legacy users in mind (the pen tool in particular is leagues ahead of Illustrator).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"730\" src=\"https:\/\/comdma.com\/staffors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/05\/staffors_lab0-1024x730.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comdma.com\/staffors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/05\/staffors_lab0-1024x730.png 1024w, https:\/\/comdma.com\/staffors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/05\/staffors_lab0-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/comdma.com\/staffors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/05\/staffors_lab0-768x547.png 768w, https:\/\/comdma.com\/staffors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/05\/staffors_lab0.png 1448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Graphic design is my passion.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"719\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/comdma.com\/staffors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/05\/staffors_sketch-719x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comdma.com\/staffors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/05\/staffors_sketch-719x1024.jpg 719w, https:\/\/comdma.com\/staffors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/05\/staffors_sketch-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/comdma.com\/staffors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/05\/staffors_sketch-768x1093.jpg 768w, https:\/\/comdma.com\/staffors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/05\/staffors_sketch-1568x2232.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 719px) 100vw, 719px\" \/><figcaption>A poorly taken photo of a character concept sketch I made based on the Mario character Petey Piranha.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We also had to read an article on TechWhirl on Gestalt theory, which focuses on the way art is interpreted subconsciously as well as consciously, and how to design with this in mind. It&#8217;s broken down into a number of subsections and lists, but it&#8217;s still pretty complicated so I&#8217;ll probably have to read it a few more times before I really get it. Here&#8217;s hoping I can understand it in time for the final project!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For our first assignment in DMA 214, we had to submit two sketches, one analog and one digital using Figma. I&#8217;d never heard of Figma before this but I already like it much more than I like Illustrator. It seems like what Illustrator would be if it could freely update without keeping legacy users in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comdma.com\/staffors\/2019\/05\/22\/blog-1-lab-0\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blog 1, Lab 0&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[4,5],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dma214","category-uncategorized","tag-dma214","tag-lab0","entry"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"dma214"},{"value":1,"label":"Uncategorized"}],"post_tag":[{"value":4,"label":"dma214"},{"value":5,"label":"lab0"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"staffors","author_link":"https:\/\/comdma.com\/staffors\/author\/staffors\/"},"comment_info":"","category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"dma214","slug":"dma214","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":9,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":9,"category_description":"","cat_name":"dma214","category_nicename":"dma214","category_parent":0},{"term_id":1,"name":"Uncategorized","slug":"uncategorized","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":9,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":9,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Uncategorized","category_nicename":"uncategorized","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":4,"name":"dma214","slug":"dma214","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":4,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":9,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":5,"name":"lab0","slug":"lab0","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":5,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comdma.com\/staffors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comdma.com\/staffors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comdma.com\/staffors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comdma.com\/staffors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comdma.com\/staffors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comdma.com\/staffors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/comdma.com\/staffors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comdma.com\/staffors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comdma.com\/staffors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comdma.com\/staffors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}