Steven Milanese

This is my first week in Designing Computer Graphics and so far it has exceeded my expectations. I have anxiously been awaiting the opportunity to work with and learn Adobe Illustrator. Despite my years of experience with Adobe Photoshop, I have never really had the need or opportunity to work with Illustrator. Essentially, when it comes to Illustrator… I’m a n00b. This weeks assignments consisted of several basic tutorials which helped prepare me for the weeks final assignment, a self portrait done entirely in Illustrator. While I have to admit that the assignment intimidated me a bit, at the same time I was feeling nervous, I was quite excited and anxious to get to started. Above all else my primary reason for enrolling in Full Sail University was a desire to learn new things, while improving my understanding of those things I already knew a little bit about. So far Full Sail has not disappointed in this regard. On the other hand, one of my primary concerns about enrolling in an online course was the potential of being thrown in to the proverbial shark tank with the expectation that I’ll be able swim without first receiving some type of formal instruction. To my pleasant surprise this was not at all the case. Each of the tutorial based exercises leading up to this assignment were appropriate and provided me with the base skills necessary to create the following self portrait.