Friday, 25 October 2013

my pics 5

Made this in 2012, i felt like editing it, so i just cropped it 2 times

Friday, 18 October 2013

Daumier


I posted this on my blog because i am sharing this assignment with people who don't know why i am posting it,  even i don't really know why i am posting it, but its a group work assignment of a Daumier, its just people sitting on a bus, and they all look sad, incase you couldn't tell.

Chess piece

Hello, my fellow bloggers, I'm going to explain the process of drawing my chess piece.
This project was based on still life, and we drew chess pieces and tried to make them look as realistic as we could by drawing the chess piece, adding in certain lines, and shading in the correct areas. I would say that I added proportion by making my chess piece bigger in the drawing then the actual chess piece that I was looking at to draw this, and adding different sized lines for the background. I added different values not only on my focal point (chess piece) but also in the background, I needed a way to make none of the same shades connect, so I used six different shades (lights and darks) on the background.  For pattern, rhythm, and movement I really tried to focus on the background because I based it on a spider web. The different directions and shading of the lines gives it that pattern it needs. It also has rhythm and movement because the different directions of the lines in the background make it interesting, they produce rhythm because I tried to make them look all connected like a real spider web, and i repeated the lines, the direction of the lines and the different shading of the lines. For movement I made sure that it wasn't boring and that people weren't going to be looking at one thing, I did that by moving the chess piece off to the left side and making some of the background lines look like they were coming out of the chess piece, and they different shades helps leads your eyes to other places on the picture.
I have many ranges of value throughout this drawing, i went from really light, (which is pretty much white) to light, to grey to dark to really dark (Which is pretty much black). i put my chess piece off to the left and slightly in the top part of the paper, i made sure my chess piece was not in the middle, because thats just boring and life less, and no one is going to want to look at my art if its life less boring and just plain out original. my focal point is the chess piece, and the background really helps my chess piece stand out because of the line direction and the shading, for example look how the lines are coming out of the focal point and the other lines are attached to those specific lines going in a diagonal direction. Well thats what i did with my time, and my chess piece (which is a bishop), so thanks for reading and checking out my blog.

Friday, 4 October 2013

logo assignment


 Logo Assignment




 I have chosen to represent my self as a giraffe because I am tall, I am skinny, my favorite colour is yellow even though giraffes are brown, and everyone says they are yellow, because from far away they look slightly yellow. Giraffes are also really fast and I love running, and I also find Giraffes to be calm, like me. 


The elements/ principles of design that I have used are texture, pattern, proportion, contrast, variety, line, colour, shape, space, and form.
Texture: the giraffe spots looks bumpy but it also look smooth. Pattern: the spot create a pattern. Proportion: the spots change size, so some of them are really big and some are really small. Contrast: I would say that there is contrast because of the bright colour and because of the way the colour changes. Variety: I think the spots create variety. Line: there is multiple line because we had to trace it. Colour:  there is multiple colours (yellow, orange, yellow, brown, black. Shape: the spots are different and odd-looking shapes.  Space: the giraffe is my positive space and the background is my negative space. And Form, it looks a bit 3D.



The technical part of this assignment took me some time to get use to, I found it hard to use the pen tool at first but as I got used to it, it got a lot easier.  I learned a lot of tools like the pen tool, undo, etc. I used 6 layers and I didn’t really use any effects I just found the yellow/orange/red colour when I was looking for a certain colour for my giraffe.

I am really happy with my logo and how it turned out, there isn’t anything I would change except the style of the letters. I learned that designing a logo is not the easiest thing to do, when I seen the demonstration I thought it would be a breeze but no it was really hard. Next, I want to make random designs on illustrator, and im not too sure what I want to learn next.