10/24 Field Trip

Last Friday we took a trip to downtown KC and went to the Bill Brady Gallery. They had this really awesome display up. Literately up, hanging from the ceiling. The artwork was called 'WILD FUSION" by Michael Manning. What I really loved about this art was that it was a all on a screen with smaller 'worlds' around it. The worlds were made of small glass open orbs filled with sand and something else to make it look like it was living. 

You can see above of the hanging screen and the huge painted canvas all suspended by wires. The entire exhibit was huge.

Above, this is one of my favorite things I saw last week. It looks kind of creepy but I just thought it was so cool. This was un-named at the Unplugged  project where we went back to their back rooms where they conduct their meetings. 

Gradient Mesh

An apple and a rose gradient mesh created in Illustrator. 

I vectored to my greatest ability, but I've never been good in Illustrator. 

The gradient apple was created after I watch a tutorial online, I tried from a book but that doesn't work very well and can be confusing. It's best to watch from a video so you can follow an example. When choosing to vector something that you know that you'll have to color, try something simple first, something that doesn't have that much bends and shadows to. Trying to add a gradient mesh to something like an apple is rather difficult and I don't recommend doing. Its harder than what needs to be. Secondly, make sure you know what you're doing. Read ahead or watch the video ahead before you go in, and make sure you know your keyboard short cuts cause that will help a lot. Ask for help, I mainly asked people I knew sort of what they were doing, this was a really challenging project for something we've never done before. I tried this project to my best ability but this doesn't come naturally to me at all, especially trying to add a nice highlight. 

  The next project worked better. Something that was flat but still looked nice. The rose was a bit hard to vector but I simplified the petals to what you see below. 

       

I spelt my name out in a font I've seen that i really like. Actually, instead of just typing the words out I created them. I replaced the 'i' in my name with the rose itself. It gives the whole thing a more dramatic flare. To convert text to outlines, simply select your text and go to FILE-CHOOSE TYPE-CREATE OUTLINES expand the group and then you're free to play. I added extra anchor points with the pen tool and shaped them however i liked. 

I don't really know why I chose a rose, I just thought that i would try a different style as I usually do and simplified the lines. I've always liked the quote "Every rose has her thorns" and I guess thats how I ended up creating this. The font I wanted to model my text after was from a show called RWBY. I trie to make the flower look like some areas are glowing too. 

Anatomy of a Font

We took a perosnality test on font types, and I got the font Bifur.  Someone with the bifur font type is rational, assertive, progressive, and relaxed. Some of these i can agree with but other don't sound like me.  I don't really like this font mainly because its hard to read (the numbers), some letters are just fine. 

I typed my name out after downloading the font and it looks pretty cool. It's a bit hard identifying some of the font parts. I did the ones i was pretty confident about. Whatever you type this font on it defiantly shouldn't be on anything busy, the text itself is already a lot to look at. Again, like i said before, the font is a bit hard for me to read but it does catch eyes. 

Studio Gibili Posters

If you have ever seen these two faces, you know exactly what the movie is even before  you read the title. 

A friend asked me to create the Anime Club poster for this school year, the first meeting will be showing one of my personal favorite Studio Gibili films. Something easy that if anyone has any idea of anime, they'll at least recognize this mask. It's one of the simplest ideas i could come up with that has a fully recognizable face, or in this case a mask. 

This is one of the most famous animated films ever, its called Spirited Away that was created in 2002 by Studio Gibili , a Japanese animation company.  

The poster does not have a room number to it because my client asked for a drawing with the words "Anime Club" written on it, and asked to be sent without the room number. 

This poster has 6 colors, but the design is so simple one of the posters in the room in front of me that has 3 colors looks busier. 

I love how simple the poster looks. I love when people haven't even seen the movie, yet they recognize this face. 

This poster I just did for fun. Another one of my favorites and a good one at that. I wrote in light green the name of the film in Japanese. My Neighbor Totoro, created in 1988 by Studio Gibili, is a spirit who protects children, but the original story like most turned movie, has a dark twist. 

This poster was just for fun but I just loved this so much I also wanted to post about it.