Shopping Bag

This is my shopping bag design. It took much longer than it should have as a result of illustrator incompatibilities and my own procrastination. I wasn't going to use a chimpanzee originally but I couldn't make the type of monkey I wanted to, so I went with this.



November 19th Grade Check

Concentration 1:

Identity Package:

Conservation Poster:

Tolerance:

Consentration 1 - The negative effects of technology on sleep

For those of you that don't know, my concentration is the negative effects of technology. For each piece, I will represent a negative effect that it has. For my first, I chose its effects on sleep.

 

I'm sure that most teenagers can relate to this in particular, the piece shows somebody a bit before midnight playing video games, then on the computer, then after that in bed - on their phone. The last panel is when they have finally gone to sleep, all that is visible is the clock.

 

I chose to do this in a comic style because it can show a timeline of events, and overall I'm happy about how it turned out. I stepped up my use of the Illustrator CS6 3D functions and they are surprisingly powerful and useful. There is two things in particular that I feel could use improvement. The first is the face in panel 1, which just looks off. It also looks somewhat like me, despite my attempts to make it look different(the hair color). The second thing was to emphasize a glow coming from the screens by shadowing the background. It was more difficult to do than I thought and risked ruining the image if done badly, so I left it out.

 

For my next concentration I will do something more simple...I want my life back.

Identity Package

My identity package might look somewhat familiar to anyone that was in Graphic Design 2. Is is the same core design I had used for my sketch folder. Lazy? Perhaps. But it's a design that I really like and feel that it represents me. First, because I love hexagons, and second, blue and orange are my favorite colors, and they happen to be complimentary.

 

For the letterhead, I faded the middle so that text could potentially be printed onto it, and  the information is spread around the top and bottom.

The envelope is the same pattern, but not faded anywhere. If the pattern were mirrored on the other side, the hexagons would wrap around the edges and make it virtually seamless, same goes for the top once it's closed.

The business card is probably the most interesting of all of these. I decided to break the rules a bit and make it smaller and into a keychain, its actual measurements are 2.83in. x 1.5in. One side of it is just the hex pattern, and the other has all  my information, including a QR code linking to this blog.

 

 

Here is the sketch folder that I mentioned above, it had much deeper colors and didn't have white lines separating the hexagons, but the pattern is otherwise the same.

Portfolio

Bird:

Onesie Line:

 

Poetry Bag:

 

Sunflower:

 

Art Education:

 

Conservation Poster:

 

Advice Poster:

 

 

6x6:

 

 

 

 

Conservation Poster

I chose what is likely the most obvious conservation topic for my poster. Recycling. One of my biggest pet peeves is people throwing paper in a garbage can, especially when the recycle bin is a few feet away.

I was not sure wether to just say recycle, or Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. I chose what I do because I allowed me to fill up more boring empty space, and get more creative with the text by using a consistant color theme with the lighter colored "RE". I crumpled up a piece of paper and scanned it to use for the background. I also considered using cardboard or newspaper, but the paper just seems like a better choice to me. I will still fine tune this over the next day or two.

Bird

For my bird, I chose a Blue Jay. It has engaging shapes, patterns, and colors.

I used numerous individual gradients and shadows, particularly on the wings, to make them more engaging and add depth. This was the first time I got to use my Bamboo tablet a lot on an assignment and it helps by adding variety to the lines. In an earlier version of this, the eye and beak were both together in one frame, but I need another good focus point and so split the image and reversed the beak. I attempted to make a foot, but it turned out to be too difficult and blue jay feet are rather ugly looking. I think this is one of the best pieces of art I have created so far.