Logo creation practice

All Hallows Eve Carnival Poster

  In the making of this, value and contrast was a big problem. With the original "All Hallows Eve" text, the value is terrible. But over all I attempted to keep a constant theme with colors and font. Also, I sized the date to be much bigger than any of the other extra text besides the title. The things in the background are also sized to be small.
 For contrast I mad sure the colors of the words were brighter and more noticeable. Same fonts and similar bats were set about the poster for repetition. Also the grave stones convey repetition. I aligned the bats to distance off in the background and create a line that moves forward. On proximity, I attempted to balance off the poster with the bats and the tree. the moon is off center to help create more balance too.

All Hallows Eve Text

   While making this I learned a bit. I learned how different things that you can do with the apperance tab and many effects. We used transform and distort. Also, there was blending effects and everything. My favorite effect we used during this was the "Pucker and Bloat" effect for the spider web. It amused me greatly. :) I had reviewed how to move a gradient color because I forgot. :P

Water Pollution

   This is my pollution poster.
   The elements I used in this are mostly line, size, and color. I used lines to help separate the text and the colors I used a softer greenish and bluish effect. I tried to make the feel of a more dirty. Also, I aligned the droplets into a very crooked line to make it disorganized or "dirty". Lastly for size I ensured certain words were bigger and bolder than others. "1.2 Trillion" seemed like a very stand outy part of the quote therefore I made it the largest. Also, The droplets in the background are smaller and opaque.

Chester! :)

  This is my "woof" piece. The hardest parts of it was mostly just to adjust the direction of the fur. I was quite aggrivated trying to figure out how to make the fur go the correct direction and make sense. Also, I don't think anything was particularly easy. I enjoy making shapes with the pen tool though so that is easy. But, overall working with the tools in Adobe Illustrator is alrighty. :)

Typography Applied

Sailboats!

    This is my lyric typography. It was done with the lines from the song "Sailboats" by Sky sailing. For these lyrics, I had a lot of trouble. I decided to add shape with the sailboat and stars. The lyrics state that the sailboats wish that they were stars; therefore, I felt that having these two shapes would add a little character. For color I decided to use navy blue, extremely light gray, and white.. The mood of this is soothing and soft. The color blue is associated with tranquility and stability. Also, the light grays and white were to express purity and innocence. The songs lyrics and music sound extremely innocent and soft. I also felt a night or sleeping emotion came with it. And because, horizontal lines are related to sleeping and relaxing therefore I added a terrrible horizon line. For the lyrics, I decided to have it in a vertical line but the sizes of the words differ. I put emphasis on the words "wish", "stars", and "goodbye" by making them the largest. Those words seemed to have the most meaning. With fonts I used two different types, poor richard which is a bit more traditional and straight and lucida handwriting italics which was much more curved and cursive. The words in lucida handwriting were softly, sky, dreams, and goodbye. They gave off a soft vibe therefore I felt they needed a softer font with the curved lines.
    The lyrics of the songs are here: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/skysailing/sailboats.html
It is the first 3 lines.

Color Theory! :)

1. Define hue:
     Hue is the factor that distinguishes a color from another color. (rainbow)
2. Define value:
     Value is the “tone” of a color with tints and shades. (light to darkness)
3. Define saturation:
     Saturation is the “chroma” which is like the intensity. (Bold blue to grey blue)
4. How many colors are available on our computers?
     There are 16.8 million colors on a personal computer.
5. Define secondary color:
     A color created by mixing two primary colors.
6. Define tertiary color:
     A color created by mixing a primary with a neighboring secondary.
7. Define complementary colors:
     Colors that are at opposite ends of the color wheel as each other. (complements)
8. What are the primary colors in Photoshop?
     Red, Green, and Blue.
9. What are the secondary colors in Photoshop?
     Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow.
10. Define subtractive color model:
      Subtractive colors are CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and the key color Black)
    When you mix these three colors together, you get black.
11. Define additive color model:
       Additive colors are RGB (Red, Green, and Blue)
    These colors mixed together supposedly make white.
12. Is RGB additive or subtractive?
      Additive.
13. Is CMYK additive or subtractive?
      Subtractive.
14. What is the RGB color model used for?
      This is used on computer screens.
15. What is the CMYK color model used for?
      This is used for printing presses
16. Define analogous colors:
      These are colors that sit next to each other on the color wheel.
17. Define tint:

 The tint is the color mixed with white. (a lighter versions of a color)

18. Define shade:
      The shade is the color mixed with black. (a darker version of a color)
19. Define neutral:
      A neutral color is the combination of two complementary colors.
20. What can be said in general about warm colors?
     Red, orange, and yellow.
21. What can be said in general about cool colors?
     Blue, green, and purple.
22. What color is associated with stability?
     Blue
23. What color symbolizes royalty?
     Purple
24. What is the color of cleanliness?

 White

25. What color symbolizes freshness?

Green

26. Which colors are associated with joy?
    Yellow
27. What color symbolizes passion and danger?
     Red
28. Dark red is associated with:
     Vigor, willpower, rage, anger, leadership, courage, longing, malice, and wrath.
29. Reddish-brown is associated with:
     The harvest and fall.
30. Dark orange is associated with:
     Deceit and distrust.
31. Gold is associated with:
     Prestige… illumination, wisdom, and wealth… High-quality too.
32. Yellow is associated with:
     Sunshine, joy, happiness, intellect, and energy.
33. Dark green is associated with:
     Ambition, greed, and jealousy.
34. Olive green is associated with:
     Peace.
35. Light blue is associated with:
     Health, healing, tranquility, understanding, and softness.
36.  Dark purple is associated with:
      Knowledge, power, integrity, and seriousness.
37. Why is the use of color important in graphic Design?
      Colors implement feelings and moods subliminally. A piece with something innocent and good with a black background completely changes the feeling of innocence and goodness and so, one must be aware of what colors they are using! :D

I don't know why there are random spacing between the lines... I can't fix it. :(

Bears :D

   For our "word art" I chose to do the word "Bears". :) Originally it was going to be just bear... but that was not working out.
   Anywho, I started with an outline of a tubby bear and then cut the shape up and shaped the slices into letters. the most difficult was most likely the E and the S. Also, when I hear the word "bear" I feel there is more emphasis on the "-ear" part of it so, I ensured that would be big! :D

   I'm quite happy with my bear. I absolutely love bears. ♥