Illustrator-Color Practice with Patterns

More illustrator practice. This time utilizing the Color Guides tab and focusing on which colors work well together and which ones don't.
Makes for an interesting time when playing with color and trying not to get a headache on accident because I keep staring at white for a few hours.

Illustrator- Letter Construction

More Adobe Illustrator practice. We were building letters out of basic shapes provided by the shape tool. It was a little difficult to try and decide how to structure these, since making an R typically means using multiple shapes instead of just one. It was interesting to step out of the comfort zone for this.

Illustrator- Pen Tool Type Practice

We started with Adobe Illustrator today. I've used this program before, so this was easy to get the hang of again.

How to Choose a Font

As a response to the article "How to Choose a Font", one thing is obvious. There is such a thing as choosing the wrong font for a project. It all depends on what kind of feeling you're going for, the theme. If you choose something that doesn't accurately represent the theme, you're going to end up with a really odd-looking set of information. I think that's why schools always require the use of Times New Roman for papers or official tests. It's been set as a very professional font, like a basis for what the board system will accept. It's a legible, straightforward font that doesn't have anything fancy around the edges. There are other fonts that accomplish this fairly well, such as Arial, Courier, Georgia, Helvetica, Trebuchet, and Verdana. Goofier fonts are more appropriate for childlike things, like party invitations, storybooks, or events at places like a pet shop.

I just got flashbacks to that one high school teacher who wanted her student's papers typed in Comic Sans and got a headache.

Letter Pictures

For this project, we took pictures of everyday object in the shape of letters. I arranged my paintbrushes into the letters as a different way of using them, since all my watercolor paint was left somewhere where I didn't have access to them.
The top image is those same letters used to spell out an adjective that describes my work in general.

Making Letters With Masking

This was more masking practice, and thankfully I understood it better this time. This was just an exercise to make letters out of structures in photos we took. This was fairly simple, since the uppercase and lowercase H look pretty similar when considered geometrically. There were parts of the supporting posts I had to take out or select and reposition so it would look..."normal", if anything. As it is, the lowercase H was easier to make. All it took was a masking layer over a portion of the top.

More Masking Practice

In all honesty, I had trouble with this one. We were supposed to "merge our face with something", but the tools to do so were confusing. I'll have to ask for additional help later.
This file is appropriately titled "WowReally".

To be fair, putting my face on a manatee would have been much more interesting.