Katie Kopecky's Digital Media Blog

 I have taken the time to watch a couple illustrator tutorials on tools for beginners and here are my favorites! The first video I have watched is about learning the basics of working with the 'pen tool' and how one might use it. The pen tool is basically how you would  create all your shapes in Illustrator. I think this tool can be easily used. Once you play around with it a little and get used to it I think it will be easy to understand and master. This tool is basically creating lines and curves then connecting them to complete shapes. The thing I found interesting about the video is that you are able to insert images to practice tracing over them to improve your skills then keep the outline and delete the imported image.  The second video I have chosen to watch is an introduction to the magic wand tool. This feature is used to select parts of the image or sketch that are of the same. You can select parts of the image by fill color, stroke color, stroke weight, opacity...

  This was an HTML5 coding project created on DreamWeaver. The assignment was to create a graphic image using 10 shapes. I have titled my creation "Another Day" because it is embodying just a normal day in someones life. The piece was not what it was supposed to be and I can't say I am truly happy with the way it came out but I think it is the best I could do. I am proud that I was able to complete this assignment with something that does make sense and easy to see what it is. Starting off working on this project my idea was to create Scooby Doo and the Mystery Machine. As I started to work on it I had the car done and not even to the standards I wanted it to look like. There were many aspects of the car that I could not figure out how to do, yet creating it in its look now took an immense amount of time. Once I had the basic shape of the car done, thinking about trying to then create Scooby Doo, which would be much harder, was no longer something I was capable of. I set ...

The internet is composed of electronic devices that can connect to the internet in order to surf the web (https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/internetbasics/what-is-the-internet/1/). In other words the internet is the connection one makes to a network in order to have service to be able to get access to all the information provided by websites. Robert Khan and Vinton Cerf created a model that allowed data to be transmitted between multiple networks in 1970 (https://www.history.com/news/who-invented-the- internet). It was created to have founded an easier way for the transmission between computers than the early inventions which weren’t the best. Back in the 80s the internet was a means to send files and data between computers mostly seen being done by scientists (https://www.history.com/topics/inventions /invention-of-the-internet). Today people use the internet for a lot of different ways. One of the most popular uses of the internet is social media apps like snapchat or ride share apps such...