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.

CIOS 108 Graphic Animal Atlas Beetle continued

Close up of my detailed wing drawing.

Close up of atlas Head with horns.

CIOS 108 Graphic Animal Atlas Beetle

Full Detailed drawing of my Atlas Beetle

More than basic shap drawing

Basic drawing white beetle and black background

Basic drawing black beetle white background

Basic outline of Atlas Beetle

I'm sorry for the poor quality of the pictures, My computer doesn't have my scanning software on it anymore even thou i still had my scanner connected, so i had to take all the pictures on my webcam, better than nothing. Everthing got a lot better once i was in photoshop. I chose this pose for my beetle because as i went around looking for more photos like a side view or a front view i lost alot of detail that i wanted to draw. The frontal only had the beetle's head and horns all black so it was to hard to try and trace the outline without making it look like a pea with a fork through it. The side view had the same problem, as i looking and moved to trace it ended up looking like a hotdog with a stick shoved in it. I chose a Atlas Beetle because it has very Distinguishing features ( Triple horn, 90 degree folding shell and hidden wings ) This beetle was just so diffrent, instead of it having one horn or large jaws it had three horns and its wings fold out sideways and not up like other beetles.