Category: Me

This blog is going to revisit my life as a wife, mom, entrepreneur, employee, and student. I have learned that although I want to balance everything in my life sometimes it all falls apart. With that being said, I am trying again to get through this course. I must admit that I was thinking that I had this the first time but my role as a student became overshadowed by my role as a mom. Life will throw things at you and just when you believe that you have everything in your life moving smoothly as you juggle it, one thing falls, and you fall with it. I realized that in the times that you fall you realize what was most important. School was a high priority for me until my daughter had a real crisis. I saw then that school will always be there and if takes another year to finish that is fine, but my daughter will not always be a child looking for her mom to be there for her. I would rather be a good mom than a great student so here I am trying this again. For anyone that would read this I would encourage you to never give up but keep your priorities in check because if you are forced to choose between what you want and the people you love, you have to choose people, even if the person you have to choose is you. You have time for do things and live dreams, but you never know how long you have with the people that matter. Never stop trying and it may take more than once for you to succeed but YOU CAN DO IT!!!

I was really happy with my draft but in reading the critiques and even looking over my design again I decided that the gray that I used to make the brain texture was a little dark and made it hard to read the words inside. I went through the project and lightened my texture and it made the work pop a lot more than they did on the draft. The thought to change the size of the sections was in my own critique in when I thought about it again I liked the fact that some sections are smaller. Because unfortunately there are things that I should think about more and I do not think about them as much.  Overall I am happy with the work that I did not this section. I struggled at the beginning but I think this helped me realize that everything will not be easy but with some hard work and perseverance you can still finish in a place or space that you can be proud of. This logo was a journey that had to run its course. I am overjoyed with the final project and what my mind was able to accomplish, literally and in this logo. I appreciated the comments of my group members because I found that it can be hard to see how to fix a project that you are so close to. I actually love that my brain can encompass all these areas and that in a world that we can be overwhelmed with likes and reposts, I don’t think about that, it is literally not on my mind. My family and friend are my core, my reason, and my why in this world. When you think about your brain, what is important to you? Are you happy with the things that occupy your mind? The only person that can change it is you, are you willing to make those changes? Just my thoughts!

This logo was much easier to do via the sketch than working it out in Illustrator but I am pleased with how similar it came out. I played with the idea to add color but loved the idea of simple black and white. I feel like it helped me make something as complex as the brain and what areas I need it function simple in a way. The complexity of someone being the center or “heart” of your brain in what I thought about. The feeling that it is my brain and I could put anything as my center but it continues to be my family and friends that I think about as I go throughout my day.  Everything else is centered around my core.  I really did not have outside inspiration for this logo. It was what I felt like represented every person. Your head and your heart are the two things that make up who you are. Anything outside those two are traits but not the essence of you.  Now everyone will have a different balance but I like to think I balance my life like I did this picture. There are parts that seem like they take more time but the importance of them is smaller whereas there are parts that I might spend less time but that mean more.  I used the elliptical tool, the line tool, the pencil tool, the paintbrush tool, and the eraser tool. This logo was one that took quite a few attempts I must admit. There were quite a few restarts before this came together. I wanted the logo to be balanced, focused, thoughtful, and simple.  I think it will cause those that see it to think about what their brain would look like if they had the template to do their own. Sometimes you can see something in your mind but it see it come together in a finished product was amazing. With that being said, I think “my brain” is amazing and so is yours.

My logo sketch is my brain as a whole and shows the way I would envision the different areas that I must focus on.

My collage is special to me because it includes the people I love. When coming up with an idea of what I wanted to do that would include “about me” I couldn’t help but think of all the people who depend on me to be my best. As a woman I get pulled in many directions because I have to be a wife, mother, daughter, sister, auntie, friend, employee, confidant, and so many other roles. I have to balance all my roles and try to give my all in each one but these people are the closest to my heart. I often think about these people when I should relax and just be. That is indicated by the beach scene at the base because at my base I want to relax and just enjoy some quiet time. When you wear a lot of hats relaxation ends up being time to think about what you could have done, what you should have changed, and what you need to do for those closest to you. In this collage I included pictures of the people in life that consume my thoughts during that quiet time. My mom, my daughter, my husband, my sister, and my nieces. Like this collage they are all different layers in my life that fit together to make dreamy picture. I softened the edges because I wanted a more delicate look to convey an idea of thoughtfulness.  I wanted to big picture of me to more transparent because the people in this collage allow me to be transparent in how I think and feel with them.  The smaller pictures that are included show happy times in my life so I used the eraser to make the edges look more like clouds because it also represents thoughts happy memories. Like the many different relationships each layer had to be worked on separately before coming together for the big picture. The critiques helped me realize that my collage needed to be bigger so I did change the pixel size and someone mentioned that I should had some color to my “clouds” so that they had more depth. I think that really helped the look of clouds. There was a recommendation to make some pictures a little bigger but that was a hard task because the pictures had already been cropped so I hope that keeping them the same size won’t effect the look. I received a lot of productive feedback and I am happy with my project.

My collage is special to me because it includes the people I love. When coming up with an idea of what I wanted to do that would include “about me” I couldn’t help but think of all the people who depend on me to be my best. As a woman I get pulled in many directions because I have to be a wife, mother, daughter, sister, auntie, friend, employee, confidant, and so many other roles. I have to balance all my roles and try to give my all in each one but these people are the closest to my heart. I often think about these people when I should relax and just be. That is indicated by the beach scene at the base because at my base I want to relax and just enjoy some quiet time. When you wear a lot of hats relaxation ends up being time to think about what you could have done, what you should have changed, and what you need to do for those closest to you. In this collage I included pictures of the people in life that consume my thoughts during that quiet time. My mom, my daughter, my husband, my sister, and my nieces. Like this collage they are all different layers in my life that fit together to make dreamy picture. I softened the edges because I wanted a more delicate look to convey an idea of thoughtfulness.  I wanted to big picture of me to more transparent because the people in this collage allow me to be transparent in how I think and feel with them.  The smaller pictures that are included show happy times in my life so I used the eraser to make the edges look more like clouds because it also represents thoughts happy memories. Like the many different relationships each layer had to be worked on separately before coming together for the big picture.