McDonald's Sign

This was actually really hard to make. Seems pretty easy, but it was insanely difficult. I used the pen tool for the arch and then used the envelope distort option (we have yet to learn about this) for the trapezoid under the McDonald's text. Everything else was the basic tools, such as, the rectangle tool and the line tool. As well as the text option. I really didn't enjoy this tutorial, but I'm beginning to like Illustrator a lot more. :)

Las Vegas

Blah, this took a while to do, but this is my imitation of the "Welcome to Las Vegas Nevada" sign.

Splat Splat Splat (:

Oh yeah. This is my splat design. Kinda trippy, I like Illustrator. :) oh and my S came out stupid. sad day. :(

Spiral Design

For my spiral design I used the lyrics from John Mayer's song, Gravity. He writes about how everything is going against him and how even Gravity, the one thing that keeps us sane and down on the Earth (literally) is doing the same. I felt that the song went really well with the spiral idea because so many people these days have moments where they believe everything is "spiraling" out of control, but what they forget is when a spiral starts becoming smaller and getting closer together, everything meets up at the end, meaning that everything in the end will come together. (: I found that to be a cool analogy considering John Mayer's song talks about breaking down and losing hope and then he fights back just as a spiral starts out wide and going downhill, but eventually comes together at the end.

monsta monsta!

My glyph monster is pretty basic. I used the letters and number and symbols to make up his stomach area and for the rest of his body I used the slashes or straight lines. I think my monster gives a little bit of attitude! ;D

my quote (:

My quote is basically saying choose your heart over your mind. Do as you feel not what you think. This idiom is usually used whenever somebody encounters a difficult, emotional decision. Another quote I love that goes along with this thought process as well is, "smart listens to the head.. stupid listens to the heart.. be stupid." <3 Unfortunately, I wasn't able to make a second one. At least I don't think I was able to. Uh, yeah. (: Oh and sorry for all the white space before this. :[

EOD BLOG! [:

On the third Coca Cola bottle, the main interesting thing about this image is the horizontal lines, as well as the colors. Usually horizontal lines indicated tension, but for this specific image I don't agree. I mean I'm not exactly jumping up and down in excitement, but I find it entertaining to look at? (: As for the second Coco Cola bottle, I like how the colors fade from dark to light back to dark. It catches your eyes attention. Lastly for the first bottle I find the text boring and so cliche. Typical red color and typical font.

As for this picture, it uses horizontal and vertical lines, as well as some diagonal and curved. I think in a way all the lines balance and compliment each other in this picture. There's also color in here, black and white obviously. Personally I adore this picture. <3

This picture is psycho! Ha I absolutely love it! Anyways, the elements of design incorporated into this photo are without a doubt color and lines. There's a lot of chaos going on, a lot of zigzag lines which indicate restlessness and this picture definitely portrays that greatly. The colors purple, orange, yellow, white, and pink compliment each other so well that no color is dominating another.

Obviously this picture represents direction, literally. I chose it because one, I love it, and two it's a sign telling you what to do.. Or also known as giving direction. The street sign also gives direction as well.

I chose this picture to represent shape. The fish and birds represent positive space, while everything else around them that isn't taken up by anything, represents negative space.

For texture I chose to use snow as my example because it's implied texture looks hard and solid, but in reality it's REAL texture is in fact soft and instead of it being a solid it's a liquid. TRIIIIICKY! :)

Value refers to the lightness and darkness of a photo, so with that being said, this photo shows both dark shading and light shading. On the first photo the artist puts a lot of emphasis on the dark areas of the photo to make the white areas POP. They do the same thing for the second and third one too, but on the fourth they use less and lighter shading to make the black pop this time. The little black dots especially pop because of the light shading behind them.

Hm, I think I got everything?
The end. :P