Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Logo Creation

This logo design was actually very simple. The only tools I really only had to use (besides the blur and eclipse too) was the direct selection tool and the scissors tool. I pretty much cut anchors from the circle and moved them all around.

Monday, October 28, 2013

Halloween Text Effect

This text effect used many different colors on top of text.

Water Pollution

This is a poster promoting to help with water pollution. I used the water drop from a previous lesson to make this poster.

Monday, October 7, 2013

Reflection of the first 6 weeks

Last 6 weeks, we learned about many things in the program, Adobe Illustrator. We learned about everything from glyphs, to opacity, to shapes. The first project we did in the program was when we made a basketball player out of shapes. The shapes were simple (circle, rectangles, etc.), and we changed the colors and organized them to create the shape of a basketball player. Another one of the many projects we have done is we made a water drop. During the water drop project, we spent a lot of time using the pathfinder tool, and “sending it to back.” The water drop project was probably my favorite project, because the end result looked really cool.

My favorite type of art is probably typography. Typography is art with just words. One of the things I made was Mike Wazowski, the green guy from Monster’s Inc., and I made him all out of letters from a certain font. Using the Alt key was very helpful during this project, because it let me copy and paste these from a pool of letters, without having to right click or anything fancy like that. 

Thursday, October 3, 2013

Color Theory Worksheet

Tommy Kersten


  1. Define hue: Hue is what distinguishes one color from another
  2. Define value: Value is the lightness or darkness of a color is value.
  3. Define saturation: Saturation is the brightness of a color.
  4. How many colors are available on our computers?
  5. Define secondary color: Secondary colors are 2 colors that are mixed together.
  6. Define tertiary color: A tertiary color is a primary color mixed with a secondary color.
  7. Define complementary colors: Complementary colors are 2 colors which sit opposite from each other on the color wheel
  8. What are the primary colors in Photoshop? Red, Green, and Blue are the primary colors in photoshop
  9. What are the secondary colors in Photoshop? Cyan, magenta, and yellow are the secondary colors in photoshop
  10. Define subtractive color model: When you mix all of the primary colors (In Photoshop), you will get black.
  11. Define additive color model: When you mix red, green, and blue, you get pure white light.
  12. Is RGB additive or subtractive? RGB is an additive color model
  13. Is CMYK additive or subtractive? CMYK is a subtractive model.
  14. What is the RGB color model used for?
  15. What is the CMYK color model used for? CMYK is used for photoshop.
  16. Define analogous colors: Analogous colors are colors that are right by each other on the color wheel.
  17. Define tint: Tint is a color in which white was added to the color.
  18. Define shade: Shade is a color in which black has been added to it to darken the tint
  19. Define neutral: More natural colors that tend to be brownish.
  20. What can be said in general about warm colors? Warm colors visually tend to jump forward into prominence n a piece of design.
  21. What can be said in general about cool colors? These colors tend to reduce in design.
  22. What color is associated with stability? Blue is a color that symbolizes stability.
  23. What color symbolizes royalty? Purple is a color that symbolizes royalty
  24. What is the color of cleanliness?
  25. What color symbolizes freshness?
  26. Which colors are associated with joy?
  27. What color symbolizes passion and danger?
  28. Dark red is associated with: Dark read is associated with vigor, willpower, rage, anger, leadership, courage, longing, and wrath
  29. Reddish-brown is associated with: Reddish brown is associated with harvest and fall.
  30. Dark orange is associated with: Dark orange can be associated with deceit and distrust.
  31. Gold is associated with: Gold evokes the feeling of prestige.
  32. Yellow is associated with: Yellow is associated with joy, happiness, and energy.
  33. Dark green is associated with: Dark green is associated with ambition, greed, and jealousy.
  34. Olive green is associated with: Olive green is the traditional color of peace.
  35. Light blue is associated with: Light blue is associated with health and healing.
  36.  Dark purple is associated with: Dark purple evokes gloom and sad feelings.
  37. Why is the use of color important in graphic Design? The use of color in graphic design is important because without it, it is just too bland. 

Lyrical Typography




I used the chorus of the song, "We are Young" by the band, Fun. As you can tell, I had the colors go from darker to brighter going down the words, to end with a really bright "SUN".


The lyrics can be found here:http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/fun/weareyoung.html

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

One Word Art



My word that I chose was the word, "Falling." The letters in the picture are representing "falling" because they have fell to the ground. Some of the letters are also getting ready to fall off the word and hit the bottom. 

Typography Quote




This quote is supposed to be described by the way that the font is, and the way that it is all positioned. The "unknown" word is shaped as a question mark, and art and earth look like what they actually are (Earth being kind of rough-looking and Art looking like it was painted with a paintbrush)