Webpage from Photoshop

Taking a Photoshop designed image and slicing it up for a webpage was easy and simple. The only difficulty I ran into was using Dreamweaver. The spacing had to be adjusted.

Video Game

Sometimes the hardest part of creating a design is finding a theme. I decided to make a video game based on the three little pigs, but reverse the outcome, giving the wolf get his revenge. Each image was created in Adobe Illustrator, imported into Construct2.  Probably the only issue I ran into was just having enough energy to work on my homework. The whole kidney failure thing is finally starting to conflict with my school work.

  

2D Zeotrope Animation

This project seemed like the easiest one, but I ran into problems with making an overly detailed car image in Illustrator.

When I tired using the pathfinder tool, delete background it wouldn't let me, and when I painted over the car layer, it lost all it's detail. So, after running out of time and worn down from the used up effort, I quickly made circle and called it done.

Animated it in Adobe After Effects, and importing the avi file into Premiere Pro to add music. https://youtu.be/f2EHHZh71QA

Art Deco Poster

I was really happy with the way this poster turned out. No problems popped up other than finding the right font and placing a white trim around the edges. The poster was created in Adobe Illustrator.

Smooth Bubble Gum Font lowercase

After designing the CAPITALS for this True Type Font, creating the lowercase letters was much easier. It may have taken just as much time, but it seemed to flow better, probably because I had already created the desired style and didn't have to make several versions of each letter. 
I used Adobe Illustrator for each individual vectorized glyph, and then copied and pasted each one it into Font Creator. I also decided to change the font name to Smooth Bubble Gum after checking on dafont.com and seeing the same name.

A New Kidney and a New Life

And she's back. Well now that I have a new kidney I have time to get back to the things I love and missed.

The transplant was on February 3rd. 2019. It's been life altering. I have energy again. No
dialysis. And most of all I can go camping again. With peritoneal dialysis it just became too difficult to stay clean.

I've never been one for enjoying cleaning, but with this new found energy it's nice to have the ability to do mopping, sweepping, and bending down to pick things up off the floor.

Before the kidney disease was extreme I was walking 2-3 miles a day. I hope to get back to that again. Right now i'm just taking short walks down my quarter of a mile driveway.

With this new life I've also been doing more crafts and creating new works of art.

 

 Stars & bunnies

I've been doing a little paper mache to get a few decorations done around the house.
I'm keeping busy until I get start working again in July. The hope is to work at a local newspaper. Where I can do Graphic art, writing, and Editing.

It's been a bit of a journey, but as a familiar jingle states. "I"m loving it!"

Gingers Extinct By 2060?

Growing up as a Ginger was tough. At 13 years old being teased for the color of my hair, fair skin, and freckles was hard at the time. Living in California; Land of the Tan and Blonde, wasn't pleasant for a Ginger.  In my high school there was only about 4 other Gingers in the whole school. (and dying you're hair red wasn't big at the time.)

Being told to get a tan or that freckles made my skin look dirty were just a few of the comment that still to this day I hear from people. Okay, hear this people. Redheads don't tan! They burn! And for me when the burn peals off it's the same white skin underneath. Now days, I'm more than willing to tell people to F*** off when they feel the need to comment about my fare skin. But at 13 years old I didn't have half that courage to speak up.

You'd think that by now with all the skin cancer talk, people would wise up. As a Ginger I can even get burned from overcast. In the summer I slather SPF 50 on my skin daily. Beach outings usually require a hat, long sleeves, and pants.(Because having to put sunscreen on several times throughout the day can be slightly annoying. And even then there's a chance of burning.)

 I remember one experience while at a store a fellow Redhead came up to me. And with out a word from me she smiled and said, "Someday, you'll love your beautiful red hair." How she knew, I can only assume, she too likely grew up being teased about her hair also. Having a beautiful, vibrant haired, fair skinned woman encouraging me to accept what I viewed as cursed hair was a wake up call that years later would ring true.

Today, I am grateful for my red hair and fair skin. It's different and makes me stand out in a crowd. As a teenager I wanted to blend in and couldn't, but as an adult I have no desire to blend in. Being different makes people remember me at a interview, or in a crowd I'm easily found. Also 4 of my children had red highlights in their hair which was the cutest thing on a kid.

Recently, I heard it was suggested that redheads will be extinct by the year 2060. Less and less Gingers are being born. I hope that this doesn't happen, because redheads remind us visually of one thing, be different. Whether the public realizes it or not, redheads teach people about acceptance and being unique is about accepting our true selves.