Business Card

Used Berlin Sans FB Demi Bold for the name to give it a personal look, and Myriad Pro (Bold Condensed Italic) to give it a serious professional look for the job title.

Quote

Glyph Monster

Zombie Type

Using just mainly the blob-brush to make the letters and add details like bones, brains, etc. And using the live paint bucket tool to easily color fill.

Bazinga

Using very basic techniques with shapes and everything coming from the effects on the text like adding a pattern to the text, having multiple fill colors moved around giving it a sort of 3D look.

Lecture Notes

Typography Notes

An example of a typeface is: Helvetica, Arial, Comic Sans

An example of a font is: Ariel 9 pt, 10 pt, etc.

A serif font has extensions where an San Serif font does not.

Serif fonts are used for: readability for long, extended text

            An example font is: Times, Garamond

San serif fonts are used for: legibility for headlines, headings, captions

            An example font is:

What questions should you ask when making a font choice? There are 3

1) Who will be reading this?

2) What is the purpose of the document?

3) What feeling am I trying to convey?

How many points are in an inch? 72

Points measure what? Height

Picas measure what? Width

Identify the parts of this image:

A: ascender

B: defender

C: baseline

D: x-height

What is kerning? Distance between letters

What is tracking? Distance between sentences

What are rivers of white space? Tracking

What is the most legible alignment? Ragged Right

Jellyfish

Getting the brushes to work with me and do as I wanted when it came to the stroke size, it may be to big or distort and the blending never would make it seem natural.
But now it will be fun to make some of my own brushes.

Match Stick

Evaluation

The bear scene is a long and difficult thing to make with the about on shapes and placement of things. Using just simple shapes like circles and triangles by itself can create a lot of the scene, plus the patterns give the simple geometry texture. And properly layering everything like the trees, grass and bears gives is so much depth and three dimensional feel. The kuler tool is something I first thought to be hard to choose a couple of colors and make many different things being limited, yet to combat the limited colors using the appearance window to add patterns and color layers to blend over creating a new color but using the same colors. The colors used give the feel of either the wild becoming night when the bears come out which would be fear, or just a hot bairn day while the bears are staying in the shade under the trees, and I get that just from the use of the colors and with the shapes seeing more triangle like shapes being used gives a sense of danger or death with out even looking at the bears with their red eyes giving the feeling they are mad. And if I had used a blue based color scheme would give the sense that is a cold area or its just night only by changing the colors.

Color and shape theory worksheet

Communicating with Color

1. What are the primary colors? Red, Blue, Yellow
2. What are the secondary colors? Green, Purple, Orange
3. What is Hue? Color
4. What is Saturation? Color depth
5. What is Value? Brightness
6. What are analogous colors? Colors side by side which can work together
7. How is color like a salesperson? It can affect their mood
8. What are the three basic shapes? Rectangle, Circle, Triangle
9. What does the rectangle mainly represent? Information
10. What does the circle mainly represent? Organic, harmony
11. What does the Triangle mainly represent? Give warning that something is bad
12. In your own words, how do the shapes and colors come together to create a feeling? If someone look at a pink circle, they would start thinking of flowers which would give the feeling of being happy, it just can remind someone about something that give them a feeling.

Cartoony Bear Scene

Using the Kuler to find a small set of different types of one color limits what you can do, yet it lets the colors flow smoothly and feel calm which is better in the end.
The hardest was getting the blending and the patterns to work together and still make different duplications of objects (ex: mountains, grass)

Kawaii Yetti

Enjoyed using the mask on the horns & feet, but the scissor tool took a while

Pen Tool

The first top 3 shapes were the easiest; The first 2 in the next row were the most difficult

First Art