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https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEfIoTAN5rG/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Today I finally hit 1000 followers at midday during Steve's Lecture. I had no doubt that I'd at least reach 1000 with how fast each follow was after the 250 mark, though it appears after that for the rest of the day they have rather slowed down again compared to the daily average. I actually remember Nyssa saying that after 1000 it slows down again, which is a shame. Overall, I think I did a lot better than I was expecting in terms of numbers. I was expecting 200ish to be where I reached my plateau but clearly that wasn't the case. Like I said on the last blog, it is a little deflating when you consider most of your own followers don't even look at your posts. In terms of engagement, my comments and likes are more akin to somebody with 200 Followers and 20 Hardcore Fans, not that I'm complaining of course, this proably is the best reception I've ever recieved on Soc...

 https://www.instagram.com/zestarius.the.yellow It is now the other side of Christmas Holidays and there is only a week left for the Lemon Project. Minus accounts that I know for a fact have used Bots, I am probably 4th, 5th or 6th STILL!  You may notice I have also recieved around 550 Followers since my last Blog, where I was only at 200. Now I never expected to get this many as by my estimate, 100 Followers took about 3 weeks to a Month sort of up until Boxing day where it's now averaging 60 per day, which doesn't really correlate with engagement on my posts, which have stayed in line with how they have been since hitting 200 followers. In short, I'm pretty sure most of my follows are coming from otgher Instagram accounts, trying to boost followers by doing Follow for Follow, which I also do but now people are going to my account, rather than I, going for theirs and I've sort of started to exponentially grow as a result. I am a little deflated at the fact that people ...

As of today, all the deliverables, minus the Presentation and Example Mock-Ups/ Images, are in a submittable state, here isa Google Drive Folder to preview them, these ones look identical to all the final images except the ppi is incorrect on some of the JPEG Files (Which has now been corrected).  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fcCh4IZgV4D4rSCmAFWuyOMV4wIK5O-6?usp=drive_link As I've stated many times within this Professional Practices Blog, I was initially worried to do this project because of my lack of knowledge or expertise when it comes to Illustrator. As I went through, doing each image, sometimes multiple times, I became much more comfortable with each step to where the most difficult part of each deliverable was making sure the parameters were set correctly (e.g. ppi, colour set-up, Bleeds, Borders, Marks, file type etc.)  There were some other mistakes however moreso in Practice, which had to be corrected too, such as having inconsistent dates among posters, u...

  I actually reached 200 Followers around 5 Days ago but I didn't realise I had began to gain followers quicker so I guess this blog is a bit late. It seems because of the other lemon accounts who have all followed accounts from the crotcheting accounts and fashion accounts  many accounts from those subcommunities now see me as an easy Follow for Follow target (Which I am) so I'm definitely getting a lot more visits now. In terms of content, a lot of it is reposts or edits of Marmot videos still with Lemon related captions. I've also started doing more marmot photo collages and abstract edits too just because they're fun, relatively easy, a little weird and seem to gain good traction too. In terms of my rankings compared to everyone else, I am probably 5th, maybve 6th at the minute. It's still definitely all to play for, for 2nd place at least, 1st is definietely unbeatable, being 1,000 ahead of 2nd and I'm still a few hundred or so from that. Hashtags: While I ...

Here is some more test footage of my Game. This one is the entire first level sans the textures and decorations, the challenge and gameplay itself in the level is complete though. The main differences in this iteration are the starting area, the TV Screens, the green platforms being replacs with purple (Because if they stayed green, they'd have been identical to Healing Tiles), the decoration at the end of the level and then the entrance to the next level. This pillar is the first model I made for the "Red Room" inspired Level theme inspired by the surrealist imagery and aesthetical choices featured in the works of David Lynch, mainly Twin peaks (1992) though it didn't have a checked floor and more of a chevron striped one. It still had the bright red clashing against a black and white pattern though, which I like as an idea. I'll probably make a few more decor aspects as I feel my level is lacking a lot in that sense at the minute. That will cme later though as I...

    Here are all of my current RA Project Deliverables with outlined text, in the correct document formats (hopefully) with bleeds and borders and the vectors imported correctly and all the other stuff which is needed for each one. I have done roughly a third of the Final deliverables over the past two weeks and that was only from a few hours here and there, so I think completing this project to an extent that I am happy with before the deadline will be possible over christmas, depending on what more I complete within the next two weeks. I think my inital struggle and apprehension of this project was my unfamiliarity with the intricacies of Illlustrator down so the issues I had with the Font, Editing Vectors in the documents, outlining text etc. and also not having a final design down which i was confident in such as with the size of elements and particularly the colour of text and graphics too. Initially, it was all Black text but after some advice I changed it to mainly Yell...