
Ideation & Prototyping
Tracy Ma

Speculative Design Ch. 2 + 3 - Response
Ch. 2 of Speculative Design really helped me get a more comprehensive design of speculative design and its significance/potential. The...

Constant Output: Week 7
[week of 10/19] This week I colored my painting from last week. I explored different blending modes, and tried out Krita's watercolor...

Speculative Design Ch. 1 - Response
The first part of this reading kind of flew over my head, because although I understood the difference between probable, plausible,...

Constant Output: Week 6
[Week of 10/13] This week I wanted to focus on "building up" shade, because for my past outputs, I've just been using darker colors to...

Vistor Response: Regine Gilbert
Regine's presentation reminded me of when I took a UX class last semester, because I believe we also had Regine as a guest speaker on...

Sketchbook: Week 4
[week of 10/7] major thing this week: I realized my Sun and Rising+Moon sign symbols kind of looks like my initials?!?! also started...

Visitor Response: Effie Rieper
It was very eye-opening to hear about Effie's life story, especially their struggles with working in a corporate setting, and trying to...

Constant Output: Week 5
This week I finished the digital painting I started last week. Last week, I only had the face done, so this time I did the hair, hand,...

Constant Output: Week 4
This week I decided to try to challenge myself by painting something more complex: a person. With drawing people, shading and...

Sketchbook: Week 2
(week of 9/21) This week my sketchbook entry is a little less "sketchy" than last week's. I did a sort of timeline/shot-list of the...

Documentation of Tools/Techniques
For my Documentary Cinema class, I have to create a 3-5 minute doc. To help me figure out all the possible things I could talk about, I...

Constant Output: Week 3
This week I wanted to focus on blending, since last week I realized I had no idea how to blend colors, and therefore no idea how to...

MGS Documentaries Response
The MGS2 documentary was mainly focused on their inspiration and idea generating process, and a lot of the things they were inspired by...

Artist Research: Douglas Gordon
Douglas Gordon (born 1966) is a Scottish photographer and video installation artist. According to artnet, his most well-known work is 24...

Constant Output: Week 2
This week I downloaded Krita (a digital painting software) and watched some tutorials (this one and this one) to help me get familiar...













