Final Exam

Fall Final Review

Personal Business Pattern and Logo

Personal Business Card

Repeating Pattern

I learned how to make my own pattern simply by using shapes.

Personal Graphic Design Logo

In this project I learned the process of creating a logo. I discovered how to research take notes and from that choose and create my own logo. I chose to simply use my intials in a script form so that they were round and welcoming as well as the shape I used as a background, I also chose blue because I felt it gave it a more professional look to show I am professional about my job.

Farmers Insurance Logo

I chose to completely redesign their logo and have a bigger and smaller figure holing hands. These two figures could represent a family, or the insurance holding their customer's hand. Either way this gives a feeling of warmth and safety, which is what I felt this company, especially as an insurance should portray.

Halloween Poster

I learned how to use gradient in a differenet way, playing it up with making it look like the moon was glowing. I also learned how to find different outlines for my picture to allow it to give the poster an extra touch.

Splat Assignment

In this project I learned how to add certain shapes such as the "splats" as a new glyph. I also learned how to add 3-D effects to letters as well as roating them.

Personal Image Creation

In this Personal Image Creation project, I was given much liberty such as selecting colors and words and a picture of me. I chose the color yellow because yellow is known as a very happy bright color and I like to think it reflects my personality. I also chose to use circles and ovals in my background because circles reflects a happy, sensitive, and understanding personality. I carefully chose each word, which accurately describes a little bit of me. I also chose a picture of me that displayed my silly, but stylish side (although you can no longer see my outfit). Altogether I really enjoyed this project because it aloud me to describe myself in an artistic fun way.

Snowboard Project

In this assignment I learned where the patterns are, which I though as really cool. I also learned how to live trace something that looked almost scary and impossible. The easiest part was the shapes in the background. While doing this project I probably learned most about becoming more comfortable with using the opacity.

Lily Pads

In this project I learned how to use the gradient, change the shapes of an object, and transperency. I also learned how to create my paths more smoothly.

Basketball Player

In this assignment I learned how to make a cartoon, like this basketball player, out of lots of different shapes. I also learned how to use the Shape Builder tool and transperency for shadows. As well as the spiral tool for the hair. I also got to make this character my own by choosing red hair, and a different colored uniform.

Sign of Choice

I chose this sign because it was vintage & it looked like something I would hang up in my room. While tracing this sign I learned how to  use diferent shapes to form the arrow and manipulate them to be a different shape than what I began with. I also learned how to use my layers pannel to my benefit in a much more efficient way. I had to get a little creative for the cent sign because I could not find it in the glyphs so I used two rectangles and placed them on top of and below the c. The biggest challenge was probably simply matching the font, because there are so many to choose from. With this project I have realized that I am slowly but surely getting more comfortable with using Adobe Illustrator.

Las Vegas Pen Practice

In this project I learned how to use the brush tool, for the lights around the sign. I also learned how to copy the same shape with the "alt" key. Tracing was a useful learning project for me to use and get more comfortable with the tools in Adobe Illustrator.

Personal Quote

"Don't confuse your path with your destination. Just because it's stormy now, doesn't mean you aren't headed for sunshine." ~Unknown

This quote is one of those quotes I can read on a bad day and it still brings a smile to my face. I am absolutely in love with sunshine and yellow, so this quote is not only an encourage "feel good" quote but it involves my favorite thing, which is why I really love this quote.I chose to form the quote in a circle, because it is all  rounded and involves no edges. Edges are blunt, while rounded edges form a more peaceful shape. I also chose to make the quote look like a sunshine, to emphasize the meaning of the quote. The backround is yellow, because yellow is an encouraging and happy color. "stormy now" is a blue/grey because it is supposed to resemble the bad times you're going through. I emphasized "Path", "Destination", "stormy now", an "sunshine" because they are each important to this quote.

Glyph Monster

While creating my glyph monster, I learned how to creat shapes with smaller glyphs, rather than using large plain shapes. I also used smaller glyps to define different colors or shades, while only using black glyphs.

Quote with Color

I chose to emphasis "should" with yellow, because yellow is a color that catches ones eyes and means optimism and imiganiation. "Music" is a light blue because blue portrays "calm". As for "moods", "feelings", "emotion", and "meaning" I chose to emphasize those words with a light lavender because it symbolizes grace and elegance.

Film is in all caps because that is the subject and main idea of this quote. While should is bolded because it may not be considered that way we know that the author of this quote believed it SHOULD be this way. Progression is displaying the meaning of the word through the changing of letter sizes. Moods, feelings, emotiong, and meaning are all italisized to display the genuine meaning of those words.

Typography

Typography Illustrator

Elements Art

This is my first art/experimenting with Adobe Illustrator.

Elements of Design

     The elements of design including line, shape, direction, size, texture, color, and value. Although not all of these elements must be used in every form of art, you can usually find most of them in any form of art and can usually easily identify them. Each element has it's own job. Lines are linear strokes or edges, direction is what direction a line takes, and value is the contrast, texture is the surface of a shape (rough/smooth). Shape, size, and color are all self explanatory and probably some of the most used in art. These are all a necessity for design and art, although we aren't required to involve all of them in our art.

This is an example of lines in art, the lines lead our eyes to a certain point in the picture, which was the artist's design. 

 In this example, the photographer captures the shapes (circles & rectangles) of the paint containers.

 The lines (curved & straight)  are slowly forming a design.

 These circles are displayed in many different sizes, displaying variety in the picture.

 I absolutely love the texture in this picture, that's what I love about oil paint so much!

This is a great example of color, because the artist did a great job with pairing the colors by each other in an order for them to pop would pop.

  The value in this picture is portrayed by the contrast of the orange leaf against the wood.