Marine Life Infographic
For my infographic, I decided to focus on littering and its overall impact on marine life. A lot of people don’t realize how much marine life suffers as a result of humans being careless so I felt the need to spread awareness of some of the consequences of our actions. For the data and research aspect, I found some interesting facts…
Logo Design
For this assignment, I was asked to make my own custom logo using the tools in Adobe Illustrator. My inspiration behind the design is my own YouTube channel. With this logo, I knew I wanted it to be centered around something that represents me and a subject that I feel passionate about. That made the…
Turtle Assignment
For this assignment, I created the single page turtle article by following the video for technical guidance while also using my own creative freedom to make it look more like I made it myself. Simple things like making the word Green in the title the color green with large text is an example of this. The diamonds…
Intro to Indesign: Example Poster
For one of this week’s assignments I was asked to follow a step by step guide for basic poster to help get used to Adobe Indesign. With this being a step by step process, there wasn’t too much I could follow in terms of the design process other than making sure the spacing and color schemes…
Image Trace
With this project, I was asked to experiment with the image trace feature of Illustrator. The photo you see is a traced one of myself. The design was pretty simple but I for one think it came out good. I traced it using 10 colors then made have of my face dark to make this…
Pear Assignment
For this assignment, there wasn’t a lot of artistic freedom or design processes that I followed. I mostly wanted to make sure I could do the assignment correctly while being to learn how to properly use the pen tool. The only things I did that did not follow the assignment were adding color to the pear and…
Box Patterns
For this project, I didn’t have any specific design ideas. The only thing I knew is that I wanted every box to have different shapes and patterns made from shapes and the pen tool. For the colors, I used with the shapes patterns, I themed them around teams I follow. As for why I choose the background…
Introduction to Fill
For this assignment, there weren’t any specific creative processes I used. The elephant was more meant to be a for fun assignment that introduces us to colors, fills, swatches, and gradients. It was more about making sure we could show the ability to use fills correctly. To be honest, I’m not exactly sure why I made the…
Introduction to Illustrator
For this assignment, I didn’t really use any specific design aspects. With this being an introductory assignment where we needed to follow exact steps, there wasn’t a ton of room for creativity. The only thing I was able to do beyond the creation of the step by step pencil was to fill shapes with color which I did in a…
Social Awareness Poster
For this week, I was asked to make a social awareness poster. I decided to center the theme around bullying through both symbols and words. As someone who cannot stand bullying, I felt a desire to make my own personal social awareness poster of it. After initially getting some inspiration online and thinking about unique ways in which I…
Retouching
For this assignment, I was asked to retouch and repair 3 three different photographs then do a side by side comparison with the originals. I used the stamp tool, marquee tool, lasso tool, and healing brushes to restore and retouch the three individual images I chose. I wanted to find a few pictures that appeared ripped or…
Masking and Composition
For this week, my classmates and I learned the basics of composition and selections as well as how to put it all together with what we learned with masking. There wasn’t much of a creative process with the beach scene as it was meant to be followed with exact instructions. The Netflix composition was a…
Masking
For this week’s lesson, I was taught some of the basic concepts about layer masking in Photoshop. Here are my results after giving a few assignments a try. For the assignment first assignment, there wasn’t any real techniques or design principles I used. There wasn’t any motivation behind it either. I mostly saw it as an…
Altered Images Assingment
For this week, I had to make set up 3 altered images in one file for my visual design class. For this assignment, I didn’t have any specific design considerations or methods in mind. I randomly just came up with the idea to use dogs. The one specific principle I chose to include was the idea…
My First Blog Post
Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.
Introduce Yourself (Example Post)
This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the…
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