ARTWORK
Mountain Scene
This was the first real project to do for the graphic design class. The assignment was to make a mountain scene with either a sunrise or sunset, but I chose to do my own thing and asked if I could do a night scene instead. For a first real attempt with Adobe Illustrator I think it went pretty well, it has a clear style with the thick outlines, color choice goes together pretty well, but there were clearly improvements to be made. The trees were very obviously rushed and the leaves don't look great, but overall I like the piece.
Fairey Inspired Portrait
This was my personal favorite project of the semester in terms of end results. The portrait was based on the style of Shepard Fairey, who is best known for the Obama "Hope" poster. I don't usually like pictures of myself but I happened to find one I had liked, so I based this piece on it with the outline. We were required to only use about 5 different colors to mimic Fairey's style more so i did mainly black and white with a few different shades of gray in between.
Shoe Repitition
The shoe repetition was actually an extension of an earlier project. The original one was just going over my actual shoe to get used to using the tools on Adobe Illustrator needed for it. We then get to create our own design based on repeating it over and over. I went with a monochrome color scheme since my shoes are just plain black and I thought it would work well. I also added shadows around the edges really just because I thought it looked nice and went with the whole aesthetic.
School
Originally this piece was actually supposed to be a shot of the front of my house, but unfortunately I actually forgot to take the picture for it and ended up just doing one of the front of the school. I don't personally really like how the piece ended up, but I think it is mainly because of the colors of the school which was not something i could change for it. I think in terms of actual technique though it ended up pretty good. The lines are pretty clean and neat and I was proud of how the windows turned out.
Logo
My logo piece was probably the most personal one for me because it was actually based off of one that I already had. The phoenix, named Flare, was actually a mascot character I had for using with a Twitch channel that I live stream video games on. I did have to redesign it a little, the glasses and headset were not on it before, but I think it ended up pretty good. However it did take me a lot longer than expected to make because the first time I tried to do it the lines were very rough and and basically had to do it over again to make them smoother.