My First Photoshop Youtube Video

I just started creating Youtube videos for people to see the process of what I am doing to create my designs in Photoshop. I'm hoping I'll be able to start doing full tutorials for people once I feel confident enough with the program to create things smoothly without having many mistakes. Well I better get to bed since the school week begins in 10 hours. Have a great week!

Spring Semester Has Begun!

I began my spring semester at CMU this past Monday and now my first week is almost over. The classes I'm taking right now are awesome and I've learned quite a bit in just the first week. I am taking Intro to Graphic Design, 3D Design, Intro to Photography, Color & Composition, and the History of Modern Design. The teachers are pretty cool and the awesome thing about taking all Art classes is that I'm taking more than on class with most people that are in my classes. I'm currently working on a logo using my initials in Graphic Design. The cool thing about this project is that you have to try and create a logo with the letters of your name, but instead of having the letters being legible, you have to create an object out of it to be your logo. I learned the controls for my DSLR camera which was very helpful because I had little to no knowledge at all about DSLR cameras. The other classes we haven't gotten too far into, but I'm sure they will develop into being good classes. So as for right now this semester is off to a good start. Once I complete my projects I'll likely upload them onto here for you all to see. I hope everyone is having a great start to the new year!

ART 105 Drawings

Hello Again! I have had a busy day cleaning up after having friends over last night and working on school work for the week so I haven't had time to work on another project. As I said in my first post that I would start posting my work from my classes, so I took the time to take pictures of them for all of you to see. I hope you like them! If you would like to critique me then I would be happy to hear what you have to say. Thanks!

                                  Still Life 1                                                                       Still Life 2

                                   Hand Drawing 1                                                          Hand Drawing 2

Open and Closed Drawings

                Subtractive Drawing Practice - Vine Charcoal                           Subtracive Drawing Coated with Workable Fixatif

Learning From Scratch

Hello everyone my name is Andrew Russo and I aspire to become a Graphic Designer. I decided to change my major last year from Marketing to Graphic Design last year because I realized my passion lies within Art. I am in my third year of college, but I am behind in school partly due to my change in career focus, but I also  participated in an internship through the Disney College Program during the spring semester of 2011. When coming back to Central Michigan University this year I had to make the decision of pursuing my marketing degree or make a drastic change by pursuing graphic design.

Ultimately I decided, with the help of family and friends, to put aside marketing and pursue what I knew I would really enjoy. The reason why I knew graphic design would be the perfect degree to acquire was because I had always loved art, I spend the majority of my free time on the computer, editing pictures, creating advertisements on ebay, learning a little bit of code and embedding files, and creating my own website my senior year of high school.

Not only do I plan to work for a company someday, but I plan to create and manage my own social network. As far-fetched of an idea as it is right now, I am aspiring to learn all of the necessary tools in creating my own unique social network. I have had the basic fundamentals of it written out and drawn up since 2009, but I had brushed it off to the side for the past couple years because I had no idea where to start. Now that I am pursuing a degree that will help me with this in the long run I have found my motivation once again.  I will have the basic skills necessary to begin the project once again. I will use tutorials from Youtube.com, other webpages to learn to create it, and if you have any supportive tips then I would greatly appreciate it as well.

As for school, I am working on building a portfolio to get into the Graphic Design Program through Central Michigan University. They only select a limited number of applicants into the program, so I am in great need of assistance on what kind of work I should put together for my portfolio. I am currently in the basic art classes, but intend to start posting my work onto my blog for all of you to see. Next semester I will finally be in Intro to Graphic Design so I am very excited to show all of you my work progress throughout the semester. I will try to post videos and tips as I pursue my journey to becoming a Graphic Designer.