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This book is dedicated to

Jesse Cuzick, the greatest

friend I could ever have,

and the best marine from

the USMC.



My name is Jack Andrew Kelderhouse I am twenty two years old, I currently have my Associates degree

in Network Systems Administration from DeVry University. I transferred to Saint Xavier University in

2008 and I am currently a senior pursuing my Bachelors degree in Computer Studies with a concentration

in networking. I also have my A+ certication and Net+ certication and also trying to obtain my CCNA

certication, which has helped land me an internship, allowing me to work until I graduate. I currently have

been working at Family Harvest Church for over a year, which will allow me to graduate with t wo years

experience in my eld.



then follows the big tree, follow-

ing the back trees. Once done with

viewing the back trees, you go the

path, which is the lightest value in

the picture, then going to the lake,

then the sky which is the same

value.

Concept - In the monotone

picture, what I am trying to say

is that, this beautiful spot during

the day, is a great place to come

to during the day, but even later

in the day, it is still great to visit.

Choosing the dark green, and

different variations of green, it is

a good representation of what it is

like at night. The light color of thesky, bounces off the lake, giving

it a great color to the trees and

everything surrounding it.

Composition - The monotone

green picture that I created, I

believe is my best picture, because

despite being all monotone, I con-

trolled what the viewer is seeing.

First the viewer goes straight to

the dark bushes in the front grass,

Craft - In order to make a good

monotone picture, I chose a specic

hue green, and chose different varia-

tions of values. I chose to have the

front path and the grass surrounding

the lake the same hue, a li ght green.

In order to get the picture to form

correctly, I chose to have the trees

and bushes in the picture to be t he

same hue, a dark green. Similar tothe front grass and the surround-

ing grass around the lake being the

same hue, I decided to have the lake

and the sky the same color, a lighter

green, which allows the picture to

come together. Having a monotone

picture, is in my opinion the best

one I have created because although

there essentially the same values,

you can easily tell what each thing is

in the picture.

Variations



where you can sh, or exercise around the lake, which many

people tend to do. The light sky that i gave the picture, and

lighter greens in the trees, really showed what it is like to

visit this spot.

Composition - With all three pictures that i created, My

initial goal was to have the outline of the lake the main thing

that the viewer sees, but in t he picture the rst thing that the

viewer sees is the lake. The second thin taht the view sees is

the large tree on the l eft hand side that is the main attraction

of the picture. Lastly the viewer then follows all the back

trees, which circle around the lake, completing the picture.

Craft - The three drawings that i created, i rst started

off by taking the picture, then tacing the outline of the

the picture with the dot making tool. I then selected the

appropriate colors of the picture, by choosing the propercolor for the trees, sky, and grass. After creating my nal

picture, i then changed the pictures by editing the dif-

ferent brushes. For the trees i changed brush to a larger

brush size, and givin the trees in the background a smaller

brush size. For the second picture

Concept - What i tried to accomplish by creating this

picture, was to paint a nice place to go to in Tinley Park

Craft - After editing the original

picture, the changes i made started

to make the picture come together.

I added darkness to the biggest tree,

which actually allowed it to look like

a normal tree. Also I added shade of

the trees in the lake, which allowed

the trees to be better found in the

background, like the original picture.

Concept - The updated picture

means that this is a nice, quiet place

to come to sh, or jog during the

day. Also saying that this spot is not

crowded at all, which it should be

since, you have the ability to sh and

jog. I was unable to say that this par-

ticular spot is very lively, and very

nice to come to. I was unable to ac-

complish this because of the amount

of detail in the grass and tr ees, along

with unable to accomplish the proper

hue in the sky, giving it a very dull

look

Composition - Like the original

picture, your eye is drawn to t he big-

gest tree on the left hand side, along

with the lake. This is what i was able

to do with the picture, your eye is

drawn to the tree, then t he lake, and

Tinley Park

then allows you to follow the path

and the shrubs in the front. I was

unable to accomplish the viewers

eye going into the sky with slight

sunlight, which is a key concept of

the picture.



Craft - I am becoming more comfortable

drawing with the pen on illustrator. At

rst it was very difcult because I was

not use to drawing without looking at my

hand and the drawing at the same time.

When I use the pen I have to look at the

screen and I never look down. I just kept

moving from one end to another to nally

nd the place I wanted to make the mark

on the document in illustrator. Another

part that I had to get use to was drawing

with out an outline of the image I was

about to draw. Usually when I draw on

paper I sketch out the picture by outlining

it and the adding details as I go. I was a

little frustrating but I got use to it. All the

exercises where very helpful.

Concept - The concept for this image

was trying to replicate the object without

tracing it but letting small lines form it.

The color had to be in one color. I had to

give it a background rather then just leaveit oating in space. It was an in class

exercise.

I was only allowed to use one color and

and three other values of the same color.

My goal was to replicate the image but

change the color and give it texture with

the use of small lines. That one object

was the focus of the entire image.

The rst thing I did was make t he back-

ground gray and lock that layer in my lay-

ers window. Next, I chose the color blue

and all the shades of blue I was going to

use. After I had all that done I began the

image by laying down all the dark values.

I worked from the top to the bottom and

once I had all the dark values then I added

all the light values. I then began adding

all the intermediate tones. While I was

doing all this every time I used a different

tone I made a new l ayer and locked the

one I had just been working on. I contin-

ued to layer one tone after the other until

I was happy with the result. I was running

out of time and I ended the image by giv-

ing a suggestion of the back ground andgiving the object a shadow. I did not want

the image oating in space.

I have been in catholic schools all my life and in 2009 I graduated

from Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School. My experience in

McAuley was life changing because in my sophomore year I dis-

covered my passion for art. In my senior year I took AP Studio Art

and I think that was one of my most challenging projects, but I am

proud of the work I accomplished by the end of the year. McAu-

ley prepared me very well academically while helping achieve my

goals. Now, in my second year of college I feel li ke I have made the

transition from high school to collage rather smoothly. My major is

Business Administration with a minor in Art. I would like to pursue a

career in event planning or open a restaurant. Computer graphics is a

whole new world for me, but I am looking forward to create art in awhole new way!

Coffee Cups



Craft - This weeks project, I made drawings of teapots in

Adobe Illustrator. Instead of using the mouse in Adobe Il-

lustrator, I used the pen, so I drew teapots by hand. While

making the teapots, I used a specic technique where I

would only use dashes from left to right, or up and down,

drawing the outline of the teapot, and using dashes to-

gether, to represent the darker portions of teapot.

Concept - What i was trying to establish i the picture,

was to represent a teapot, sitting on top of a white t able.

Since the item i was drawing was metal, i tried to estab-

lish the light that reected off of the teapot, which was a

major part, in trying to establish the whole picture.

Composition - In this specic picture that I created,

was a teapot. What I tried to establish in the picture is a

teapot on top of a computer desk. In the teapot picture,

i tried to control the eye of the viewer to focus on the

handle of the teapot, but because it was done in the

dash form, the viewers eye focuses on the outside of the

teapot, instead of the handle, which is the darkest spot in

the picture.

Black and White



My name is Moses Arce. I am currently a junior at Saint Xavier University. I had to make a very tough

decision when it came to choosing which university will best meet my needs. Saint Xavier University has

an excellent student to teacher ratio. This ratio makes it possible for my teachers to help me when I ever I

need it. I am taking Computer Graphics because it is part of my core requirements for my major which is

accounting. With my accounting degree I want to work with the government or The Central Intelligence

Agency to be a forensic accountant. If I am able to become a forensic accountant, then I can help many of

the corporations that are committing false income statement and tax returns.Craft - In Adobe Illustrator I was using dif-

ferent tools to change for each of the three il-

lustrator . I used the eyedropper tool to adject

the different colors in the photos. Also I useddifferent size strokes for the building and

windows and used different color hue to bring

out different variations of the photos.

Concept - I changed the picture from

day time to night time. By changing the

sky color and making all the windows

on the building black. I was also tryingto make one of the windows stand out

in the illustration by having a darker

and thicker stroke to make the yel-

Saint Xavier University

low appear more in the il lustrat

The last photo I tried to represe

school colors and tried to just u

the three colors. I tried to use dstroke and thickness size in the

to make different objects stand

the photo.



So my rst blog is supposed to be about my academic

life... well what can I say about it? Other than the fact that

SXU is my life, i t's not only in the eld of Academics. I'm

an above average student majoring in Marketing. I've al-

ways been fascinated with the idea of marketing products.

Another interest of mine has been computers- everything

about them. So why not take a computer graphing class

to increase my knowledge and skills and hopefully let me

branch into various jobs within the marketing eld. Other

than my love for marketing, I'm well organized (when

I want to be) and a hard worker. My goal for this year(my senior year!) is to make and take the most out of it,

whether it is inside or outside the classroom. Even tho I

might not be all of these characteristics within my aca-

demic studies, I believe it is only because I use the skills I

learn in class outside of the classroom... But isn't that what

you're supposed to do?

Craft - This drawing was created in Illustrator using the pen tablet. The program allows the user to adjust the

setting to brush and then create marks as in relationship to drawing a picture with pen and paper. You are able to

adjust the stroke of the brush (pen) by making it larger in width or smaller. For this illustration I left the stroke

at 1 pt and continued to draw over various lines to make the darker shades. With this il lustration it was meant to

display the light that is displayed while looking to the image.Concept - This picture is of a teapot. The teapot is reective, which means alot of light is being displayed on th

pot making it have more white than black.

Composition - The viewer is drawn to l ook at the white in the middle of the lower half to see what represents

the reective on the teapot

The Pen Tablet



I'm a freshman and majoring in Nursing. I stayed focus in class and

participated in class discussion. When its time for group project I al-

ways do my part. I have a strong belief that business comes before fun.

I'm a person who set goals and always work hard to accomplishment

them.

This week we learned how to draw on Adobe Illustrator without having to use the mouse, it is called the pen tablet. It m

drawing so much easier on the program. We learned how to use the paint brush tool beacuse that what we will be using

most to draw. We start making lines so we can get use to using the program. Then we started to draw teapots. As we ke

drawing teapots, there was different task for each one. One was just draw the lights and the next was just draw the dar

Drawing the lights was hard for me because if I had a teapot that was dark, I didn't see any lights.

Paint Brush



Craft - I created these pictures

digitally through the computer. I

used various brush strokes, meaning

different size brushes and different

thicknesses. I also used various col-

ors and different lines to create these

images. By making the brush stoke

thicker, it makes the lines appear

more bold and bigger. By creat-

ing differnt strokes of lines right on

top of each other, it also makes that

section of the image more dense to

show more darkness in that particu-

lar area.

Concept - The whole picture can

change by the way the artist changes

teh colors throughout the image. For

example, by making a certain section

more dense than another, it can tell

the viewer how the artist portrained

the object when it was drawn. For

example, how much light was hit-

ting the object at that time. You

can also change the focal points

of the object being drawn as well

by adding bright colors or making

something more dense. To create

these images, I made the darker

parts of the object more dense and

the lighter parts I made dense with

white colored strokes. Every image

has a different meaning to every

viewer.

Compostition - For the middle

image, the coffee mug, my eyes

saw differnt shades of lightness and

darkness throughout the mug which

depended on the amount of light

was directed onto the mug. Also,

it depended on what angle the light

My name is Gina Keleher. I am a sophmore at Saint Xavier. I plan on majoring in nursing and

minoring in pshychology. I came into the school as an undecided major, but after thinking about

it I nally decided that I wanted to become a nurse to be able to help patients. I try my best at

everything I do and I don't give up, no matter how hard something might be. I am a hard worker

and try my best to get the best grades I can get in each class. That's about it!

was being shown onto the mug as

well. I saw the various shadows

that the light created as well and

made them appear in the drawing

too. By drawing the various shad

ows, I created an image that can

have a differnt meaning for every

viewer that looks at it.

Brush Strokes



This week we worked more on lights and darks

with xed settings which really opened me up to

seeing what true darks and lights are, and what

is in between. For all of these I gradually got use

to using lights and darks and learned what was

in the gray area in my last picture to portrait the

real image not through an outline but through

its shading. The craft of these photos is just amixture of going between vertical lines and

horizontal lines, just switching in between each

piece of work I created. Some of my works only

contained vertical lines and some only portrait

horizontal lines which really opened my

perspective to what each line can do for a

picture to add more accuracy and exact-

ness when you combine them together in

one picture along with diagonal lines as

well. The concept of these images to me is

a greater experience of the lights and darks

which shows you more of the dark sideand the light side to them, with very little

middle ground that I displayed in most of

these besides the last few I see more of a

darkness in the images.

My name is Kevin Jarzabkowski. I graduated from Oak Lawn Com-

munity High School in 2009. I am now in my second year of attend-

ing Saint Xavier University and I am undecided on my major at this

point but I am in between either History or Political Science.

Lights and Dark



This week we started our new project. We were introduced to the pen

tool. To learn to use the pen tool, we did alot of warm up activities. Our

rst warm up for the pen tool was drawing teapots.

In these two rst teapots we started with a black backround. Then we

took the paint brush and made it white. We rst drew all the parts of what we saw that was bright t hen everything that was drak came on its

own.

Hi! My name is Amy. I am a nursing major. Im not sure yet

what I want to minor in but im thinking about business or

spanish. I have previously taked 5 college classes with over

20 college credits. I am currently t aking 17 credit hours.

I am super excited to be in this computer design class. I

decided to take it not only because I needed a liberal art

credit but because it sounded like alot of fun. I also though

it could be useful in future job situations. I am hoping to

learn alot of new things from this class. Well thats all for

now!

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