PATTERNS!!!

Here are the patterns I did for Nathan. I threw in the last one just as my means of experimenting, although to my credit I did use two dissonant colours, I just didn't stick to two solid colours.

My Character

I know it isn't much but this is my character I had to do for Luke. The reason I did this character...here goes life story...

Is because it' me... see, back in High School, me and my friends each designed a character. Not exactly us, we could change them however we wanted (as you can see my dude's blonde) and because I could draw I wacked them together into a comic I've been drawing for a year.

So basically, that's it. I decided I was going to do him in Illustrator for a change because I edit the comic in photoshop. This is one of his shots in the comic and I don't have the original sketch on me, but it will be up here at some point.

Combined Images

Long overdue I have up the image in photoshop that we did with Luke a few weeks back, the one how we had to combine five different images into one. The kitten, because it was so fuzzy and hairy, is cut out horribly, but meh, I don't really care. And the robot was atrocious to do mainly because I'm now used to using the pen tool in illustrator...

I know it's a little hard to see on my blog, but clicking on it will bring up a bigger image.

Here are my other two drawings from last week with Luke. I did Ralph Wiggum and Bugs Bunny

Illustrator

Here is the mighty Parramatta Eels. This one got posted before the two we did last week because they are currently on the macs. Hopefully, they will be up soon.

Typography

Typography. Without having looked up anything on the topic yet, I would say that typography is the use of symbols and shapes to convey a message. I'm just thinking how fonts can appear in all different styles, but typography isn't just limited to text, typography could maybe refer to images and pictures that convey the same messages as typography. It can also be stylised, like graffiti for an example.

Okay. Wikipedia lists typography as 'the art and techniques of aranging type, type design and modifying type glyphs.' Sounds fun. Thank god I did more research then just a glance at Wikipedia, which goes on to talk about the kerning, tracking and leading of typography font.

Firstly, I want to link to Sagmeister.inc, because their designs and site are awesome. Really look through their works and read what they are about because it is really appealing.

I also went to David Carson's website, which I had oddly been to before, I'm not sure but didn't Karen get us to look him up? I didn't like his style as much as Sagmeister, but it still brought across a pretty good message. Like his 'Yes series', showing how an image can be changed just by the altering of font alone.

To me, good typography is typography that suits its environment. It's a hard question in my opinion, and no matter how many websites I visited the answer didn't get any clearer. It needs to convey its message, not only creatively and effectively but in a way that appeals to its purpose, design and most importantly the audience.

I don't know if I can explain it any different, but hopefully that'll do.

one more...

As Nathan was talking about different colours for same images, I thought it would be different to use a few colours to spice up my spliced up image. I don't know if it's the abstraction or the strange imagination that I possess, but i'm thinking of genies when i look at this picture. Anyone else? No? Oh well...

illustrator tasks

This is one of my compositions we had todo with our 4 shapes and 3 lines. Basically, to get as abstract as I possibly could, I placed my shapes and lines in alternating black and white colours and blended them all with twirls and swirls. Depite it being...very...whatever it is, I like it. It's coz it looks like some evil shadow coming to get someone.

This is one of my compositions with just the 4 shapes and 3 lines we had. It doesn't really have anything going for it, but i like the sun-like orb at front. I have no idea why...

This is my illustrator city, the one how we had to make a composition with just squares and lines.

hello out there!

um, dunno if anyone is viewing my profile or not. if u aren't, u r more intelligent that the person reading this, and if u r... why?

oh well, if u've put in some effort to view my bloggie thing i may as well say something...
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...i showed u mine, so u show me ur's. lol, innuendo.