Word Art!

Hello! Our current project is WORD ART! Word Art is where you use your word to make it. Its kinda hard to explain. EG: 'Glass' could be a glass and the cracks on it read 'glass'. Below is an example of what we're meant to do in class. 

This piece of art is meant to spell love... or dove. Pretty sure it's love though.

I am almost done with my word art! Apparently almost doesnt count. Mine is meant to say LEAF, so Im using : (of corse) leaves and trees. Tomorrow is the last day I  get to work on it. Its also gonna be the last Design Art class. Im gonna have Vocal & Tech and Robots next semster... bleh.

ISkins! :|

Well! I have finally finished my ISkin! Yesh! My ISkin was the funky/personal, an octopus holding some kind of bue magic ball. Our asssignment was to create an iskin which either used nature, pattern, funky/personal, animal skins, and something I cant remember.

Here are the steps in order to make an ISkin like we did in class:
1. Choose a design out of the ones you've already sketched.
2. Start the final product by drawing your chosen design (way bigger!) on a bigger piece of paper, preferably with the shape of the electronic you're gonna use.
3. After done with the sketching, start coloring.
4. Cut your shape out.
5. Start your tag-line writing.
6. Color your tag-line.
7. Cut your tag-line out.
8. Get your choice of colored paper.
9. Stick your electronic and tag-line on the way you want it.

TADAAAA!

A skill I (not necesarily learnt, but used in the making of the final product was, well, patience, commitment, enthusiasm. I think thats pretty much it.


I am pretty happy with my ISkin. If I got the chance to do it again, I would definetly work faster (I was trying though!), talk less and plan my colors better (as in check which color we do have in order to use matching colors when coloring).

My favorite part in the making of the ISkin is the part where you come up with different designs... Yep, that part coz we dont have to stick to something. If we dont like it we can just erase it and start a new one. It was really easy for me, the back a paper is full because Ive written different ideas down. Maybe its just because I have a big imagination...

One of the hardest parts was coming up with a tag-line!!
A tag-line is like a small sentence businesses use so that people remember them, example: Nike - Just do it. That part was hard because, well, its an octopus and lightning on an ipod. How do I connect that? Well, with help, my tagline ended up as 'ZAPTOPUS YOUR I-POD!!' which is good because the it makes the connection between my ISkin and the Ipod.

H: Harmony: how well the different design go together
U: Unity: that the designs are all together, not some of them isolated
R: Repetition: Repetition
B: Balance: that its not too overwhelming on one corner, while the other side is completely blank. In other words: equally spread out.
E: Emphasis: where you change something in your design so its practically the first place your eye goes to.

Ill post a picture of my ISkin later, I need the shared folder for that.

Tesselations



One of many confuzzling designs.



Taddaa! The picture below is my tesselations design. Tesselations were made famous by M.C ESCHER - he used math to create them as accurate as possible-.

Before coming up with the design, I had seen Alishas other work which used fire-looking stuff and it looked pretty cool. So, I decided I would try it out! The Xs in the back are there because I was thinking about Tic Tac Toe, I dont know why.

In class, I finally found out what those lightboxes were for. Once you have created your design on a folded (squares or triangles) piece of paper, you start tracing on the other sides by folding and placing on top of the lightbox.

It was pretty hard creating my tesselation mainly because of all the lines and Xs in the background. Even if you'd only messed up one of the lines or flames, you would have to restart all over again! It was very time-consuming.

During this project, I really wanted to get the tracing over with! I was the last one at the lightboxes! Although I really wanted to start coloring, I had to actually finish first!

Some of the problems I had was that some pieces of paper were different sizes! Sometimes I just had to make a flame tinsy-weensy wider so it would look like the others. My work was getting really sloppy which made me mess up even more. Sometimes, the lightbox or my work would move and I would have to spend my tracing time trying to fix it. Therefore, if I was to repeat this project, I would obviously make a simpler one, tape my papers to the lightboxes, cut the bigger pieces of paper so that they were all the same size and maybe focus on my work a bit more.
According to me, I am pretty satisfied with my work although next time, improvements included, it will be way better.