Red Spheres

Red Spheres with a hint of ME

This here is my preliminary sketch for the spheres that we would compose in photoshop and illustrator.

This is my sphere that I made using adobe illustrator. This one I experienced more trouble with because the gradient was hard for me to adjust correctly.  You can see the awkward phases between the red and black where the color is a nude tint.

This sphere was constructed in adobe Photoshop, and was considerably easier even though I normally lean to Illustrator more. I think my shadow for this sphere is better because i was able to use a Marquee tool, which Photoshop doesn't offer. I do however now notice that my shadow is on the wrong side and contradicts with my light source.

History of Google (just google it)

       When looking up the google logo it was clear they were wanting to establish a strong character and credibility into corporate, conventional, or complacent. They wanted a playful simplicity. They sought to convey comprehensive, fast, and trustworthy search results. They went to the artboard and put out a design that was easy to read and put out a memory that reminded them of their childhood. A lot of thought was put into the shading and lightness of the letters. Then they moved on to the font, which had to have some humor and traditionality, so, they landed on Catull. Google is also famous for their google doodles in which you can submit your owns. Heres a link to a few....
https://www.google.com/doodles/

My Personal Logo

My Personal Logo

      

This is my final logo (although you're never done amending)

This is just vector drawing in illustrator messing around with a few letters

              To start my psychology and personality is portrayed through this logo in the meanings of its color blue. Blue represents calm stability it symbolizes trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, faith, truth, and heaven. Blue is considered beneficial to the mind and body. And thats what im all about! The font is fairly basic as i will look into changing that fairly soon and continuing to do typography. The process was simple but long and ever changing. I began with just throwing some sketches in a sketchbook and then started working in illustrator. I did a few tutorials on textures and effects but little relayed into my logo, which is fine because new skills were still learned!I learned about setting up art boards and key increments which will be extremely helpful for me in future projects. I also want to learn more about textures and useful plugins that illustrator doesnt already offer. I did really well I believe in the meaning behind my work, but i definitely need to work on time management and producing more product so I can have more to work with. I need to work more on my skills in illustrator and less on my social skills :) 

A few preliminary sketches 

Grass Tutorial

         In this tutorial I learned how to create a grass texture that looks like astro turf. In this 2 min video I had to install Phasam plug in that allowed me to add an extra effect. In this instructional video I did really well in problem solving as it didnt work the first time around and I had to re do the video a series of times. Next time I would minimize my time by paying attention the first time around and getting it right. I was also impressed that I was able to install the plug in as I had never done that before and the video never showed me how. I want to continue to learn how to involve different colors and work in a more realistic lighter feel. I want to lighten it up and not have so much black showing through. I also want to learn more nature textures

Here I have created a clipping mask to add this texture to a text. I am proud of the skills I gained but still need to learn to make it not so clean and more grass like. 

Getting to know me- Project 8

           Project 8 was a personal biography that we made using text mate. For the first step we took a selfie then edited it in photoshop. We used the Pen tool to cut of the background so it would be form fitting. We then color corrected ourselves using the tutorial listed below. Then we took a seamed photo and made it seamless by using the clone stamp in photoshop. We set up a CSS page in text mate then linked both the home and link page to the css page so we didn't have to repeat the styles, and if we mended one page it would mend them all. Also we put in a wrapper div to make sure that we could group and separate certain things. We also used the elements of CARP to make our web page stand out. I used contrast in the headings to make them stand out.  I used alignment, repetition, and proximity in my information following under the headings










Tutorial on Color correcting :)
http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1928944&seqNum=2