CIOS108 Project 5c letter study

My first letter in the upper left i thought of A as the first letter that children learn how to write and in English we start in the upper left corner, so i picked a form that made the A look slop to show the raw new knowledge.

The second A follows the theme of the first row which i decided on making how writing A's are made, now the writer has gotten past the new knowledge of writing and can print the A.

The final A of the top row is the apex of writing, learning how to write in cursive and makes the A look as it was made in one fluid motion.

The second row was things i thought of when i thought of the letter A. The first was an Ace in cards and i found a perfect letter form for this.

The middle A was made to be angelic, and airy. This was the easiest to find.

The last of the second row i thought of abstract, so i found the most abstract way to display an A but the picture shows a lot of words that can describe an A, its an arrow, that's angled.

The lowest left A i thought of absolute, and the form i had chosen was to make it seem bold and abundant.

The lower middle letter form i picked a narrow letter form because an A doesn't have any black area where this a was placed, so i tried to make it as invisible as possible.

The lower right is my tribute to my coding buddies. It is how an A is represented in binary form.

CIOS108 Project 5a Contrast studies

Organized Contrast For this one i followed the rules and did it black and white. The best way i found to contrast was to get the view to believe in a logical order and then ripp it to pieces by adding a hexagon.

Random Contrast

The insperation for this one came form a game actually. The game is called squares where you are a circle trying to dodge squares that are flying in every way. I added the yellow glow to show how this one diffrent shape shines from all the rest.

CIOS 108 Midterm Project

CIOS 108 Project 4b: Season

This project was really fun, First i went looking for some pictures that i felt captured the feeling of winter and placed them all in my file. Once i had my pictures i then decided my color triad which made the project a loe easier then picking a triad and finding pictures that fit it.

I have to stop a moment and talk about this snowman picture, I just had to have it, it was flat out amazing and turned out to be an amzing background my favorite of all the photos.

I used five photos becuase my first graphic design teacher taught me odd is always good and it has stuck with me sense then.

It worked out so well becuase i didn't want all my photos to be straight up and down way to boring for me so i tilted them on a side, most of the snowmen are looking to the lower right which creates a flow down to the right lower corner, so if the lower right is the bottom i thought then the upper left is the top, which is where i placed the seasons name. For the text i used white text rotated it 90 degrees used the wind effect from right to left a few times to get the lines, then i rotated it into posistion. Then i had to pick an accent color which i chose red which went against all my other colors, i placed it behind the title to pull it out of the backgroun more, i used a Gradient tool that made a row with both sides fading into transparent. I didn't like my photos just sitting there like duh duh duh, so i pulled them up by placing a stroke around the pictures.

I was going to use my custom brush i used on my crush project with white as the color but it really messed up my project so i took it out. On a hidden note if you start from the red strip and go between the pictures and end going up it makes a large W for winter, did you notice it before you read this? ;P

CIOS 108 Project 4a: shots

Pattern

Rhythm or Movement

Orientation

Scale Change

Repetition

Dominance

Asymmetrical Balance

Simple Symmetrical Balance




This was a hard project becuase I bought a disposable camera to do the project only later to find i wish i had a digital camera to get better pictures but i have picked the best from the ones i had.

The Symmetrical Balance shot i took my glass half spheres and placed them on my table and arranged them in two arrows and took the picture with no flash.

The Asymmetrical one was fun i took the bowl and threw it on the table and took a picture of the spilled remains, nothing can be symmetrical to chaos :).

The Dominance one took forever, it so hard to balance those little half spheres of glass on each other finally i got it and it turned out great.

For repetition i made a repetitive color code, it reminds me of simon says red, blue, red, blue, red, blue or christmas lights.

The scale Change was hard also i only had like three diffrent sizes of half spheres so i took them and another and set them up to make an optical illusion to make the sizes seem to differ even more.

I was starting to run out of film by the time i got to Orientation and the simplest and most effective photo was this one, i took two glass half spheres adn placed a third on half of the lens to gain three diffrent points of view in one shot, one with no alterations, a close up taking half of the shot, and the third of a glass half sphere seen through the other.

When i saw Rhythm and movement i thought of music and dancing right away and how cool is it that they could serve as notes.

I chose to make a flower pattern out of my subject starting with my only yellow then red, blue, thne white.