Artist Highlight: Emily Gustin | Arts & Entertainment

Emily Gustin, a senior majoring in digital media arts and minoring in communications, is effective with The Torch as a graphic designer and photographer.  Soon after she graduates, she hopes to get the job done in graphic style and design in both advertising or advertising and marketing.

Gustin has been passionate about the arts at any time due to the fact she was small. More than the a long time, she has grown her passion for artwork into graphic design and style and images. Her main focus has been graphic design and that is most of what she does for The Torch. 

Having said that, she is very passionate about photography as effectively. 

When Gustin was tiny, she began to master that she beloved developing art projects. These assignments included painting and drawing. Although moving into large school, she never ever took any classes. 

“When I was in superior school, I hardly ever took any artwork courses. This is really amusing since I was intrigued in it,” Gustin stated.

She always retained the really like for generating art as a interest of hers, until she attained college. 

“I didn’t truly commence contemplating about if it could be a job path until I bought to faculty. I guess with the electronic art big, it’s not seriously concentrated in 1 one particular thing. It’s kind of a large amount of unique points. From there, I centered on graphic building and photography,” Gustin mentioned. 

Themes that Gustin has been concentrating on not long ago include authenticity in pictures, and why it is vital to capture real, genuine times on digicam. 

Gustin is now having a class presented to seniors that has acquired her contemplating about the concept “find your route.” Gustin has been doing work on a project that is associated to this theme. 

Gustin described her senior undertaking for the course as anything that was incredibly everyday and conversational in mother nature. 

“I desired to do a portrait venture. These jobs are self driven and we can do whatsoever we want with them. I made the decision I was heading to go out and photograph men and women and just sit down and have a discussion with them and photograph them when chatting to them,” Gustin said. 

One particular piece of advice that Gustin was equipped to present to these who want to commence out with artwork is to experiment with a lot of unique sorts of art and to continuously exercise. 

“Just experiment with diverse mediums. That seriously aided me. Also, don’t definitely get worried about your tools or even what ability level you are at. You just want to go out and practice and you are going to get much better,” Gustin claimed. 

If you want to check out any of Gustin’s photography projects, test out her Instagram webpage @ecg.pictures. Also, be sure to keep an eye on the graphics in The Torch, as some of them may perhaps be Gustin’s work. 

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