B1: Domains Response
(this was before I changed the class)
B2: Beverley Buchanan Response
B3: Annotated Bibliography
B4. Research Paper
Hyunsun Ohm_Final Paper-1a58psd
I’m Hyunsun Ohm who originally majored in Illustration. The first-year at Parsons has been one of the turning points of my life: after taking the foundation courses that let me explore different fields of art, I could find out my great love in graphic designs and, thus, changed my major to Communication Design at the end of the first semester.
While the whole semester of the first year was similar in that they were challenging, there was a difference in materials used and the teaching styles of the professors. In addition, the second semester was different from the first semester in that it focused more on academic parts and writings—even in Studio class—such as artist statements. After all, I found out why was it: the academic studies provided me an opportunity to do a lot of research to develop my studio makings. While I thought the theme I set at the beginning and the sketch I developed from there were all for the process, I found out it wasn’t; further research and sketches resulted in better artworks. Therefore, research has been unexpectedly what I enjoyed most in the first year. In addition, there was a skill that I learned in one course and utilized in another: Adobe Premier which I learned from Time class. I could use the skills I got from the class whenever I made videos in other classes; for instance, when making a prototype in Studio class. Furthermore, it was a critic in the classes and a feedback from the professors that made my projects and papers more exciting; they pointed out the parts that I couldn’t figure out by myself and gave me suggestions and inspirations that would lead my works to better directions.
While every class of the first year was challenging, I found out the final project from the Space/Materiality class and figure drawing from the Drawing class have been the 
highlights from my first year. The final project of m
y Space/Materiality class was designing and creating a chair using cardboards. After the professor’s selection of the best from my tons of idea sketches and the following development of it, I could finally get my final design. I used Illustrator to design, laser cut, and created the first chair I completed through my drawings and ideas, the corrugated cardboard chair. It really made me thrilled. In addition, figure drawing I did in my drawing class was one of my favorites: the nude model posed in the 
center of the classroom for students to draw from quick drawing in a minute and five minutes to detail drawings in 20 minutes and 40 minutes time set. 
As I enjoy drawing figures, this was rather an entertainment than a class at the university; through this class, I could draw focusing on the placement of muscles and proportion of a figure.
I am a person who is really curious about and would like to experience various fields of art that I changed my major only after the first semester. The question I’m mostly curious about for now is which direction I would go in the future—whether I would change my major to another or to my original one—as I’ve got even more fields I’d like to try after the various challenging project from the foundation courses. In the future, I’d like to learn computing and coding from my major courses as well as different fields of art such as packaging design and fashion design from elective courses. Furthermore, as the most important lesson I learned from the first year was the significance of time management, I hope myself to better manage time in next year. I’m really looking forward to finding out which projects would further develop me as an artist through the years at Parsons.
