Week12-Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!

Let's see... What did I do over Thanksgiving break? Well, Wednesday I went out because I was extremely excited that I did not have to work for Black Wednesday (since I work at a bar)! Thursday was Thanksgiving, and my family and I celebrated at my house with a big dinnger (Yumm) and then I went to work for a few hours, came home, and ate again (who doesn't!?) Friday, I did A LOTTT of homework, followed by even more homework, Saturday I worked, and Sunday I did some homework!

I hope everyone had a magnificent Thanksgiving Break!

The End!

Week11-Spreads

The following is a link to my entire magazine. All of my spreads are included and can be viewed in this link.

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Week10-Memory

Craft: For my memory illustrations, I used very simple techniques. First, I used the elipse tool to create the polka dots and heads. Next, I used the drawing tool to make some of the abstract shapes such as the limbs, shoes and bed. I used a lot of different colors as well as the gradient tool. Also, I used the stretch, and scale tools to change the size of the bear and human girl.

Concept: The concept of this series was to illustrate a surreal situation coming from a very normal situation. In the first illustration you see a girl sitting on her bed with a stuffed animal bear. The colors of the room are very realistic (this is how my room actually looks; with polka dots on the walls and pink furniture). Then, in the second illustration and third illustration everything becomes surreal. This is to show that a person's memory can create all sorts of different scenerios and stories. In one illustration the girl is tiny compared to the lifesize bear, and in the third illustration they are both the same size. Also, the decorations on the walls are changed to show that it is also no longer realistic.

Composition: The characters in the illustrations are always placed in the center of the bed. This is because they are the main idea to the story that the series tells. The bear and girl are positioned very close to one another so it appears as though they are holding one another similar to the way someone would normally hold a stuffed animal. When the girl is small, I positioned the bear's arms differently so it looks like the bear is holding her too.

Week 9-Teapots

Craft: The teapots were our first opportunity to use the drawing tool. We were instructed to copy a teapot placed in front of us and choose a brush stroke in Adobe Illustrator to draw the teapot. We used a computerized/magnetic tool and drew onto a mouse pad tool and the sketch mark would appear on the screen. For the first two teapots I was just practicing with the tool, becoming more comfortable, and made one teapot in black and white, and another of the same teapot adding soem color with the drawing tool as well. For the next teapot, we were instructed to give our teapot an environment, and also to use the same drawing tool. I kept the same brush stroke, but added different color, and put the teapot into an environment. There was a pepsi can, a mouse, counter, and computer within the same area as the teapot. Next, I drew a teapot using the shape tools in Illustrator. Finally, I used the drawing tool again, but also used the anchor and point tool.

Concept: The concept of this assignment was to become comfortable with a new tool in illustrator by warming up using that tool, and then incorporating the use of the drawing tool into drawings where additional tools would also be used. Also, an additional concept was to show that every object is always in a larger environment.

Composition: Most of my teapot drawings do not have much composition because the teapots are alone on the page. However, they are placed primarily in the center of the page to make them standout because they are the main/only focus. In the illustration where the teapot is in an environment, I made the teapot larger than the can, mouse, and computer in order to show that the teapot is closer to us than the other objects. Also, the lines were made for the counter to show that there is a separation between all of the objects.

Week 14

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