Colors: Favorite vs. Least Favorite

Blue has always been my favorite color because to me it represents calmness but also energy, like the ocean. It reminds me of beauty or royalty. I see blue on many local sports team logos, royal blue is one of my school colors, and I see dark blue on items such as cosmetics. My favorite kind of blues dark blue or blue-violet. I like to wear the color blue to match my eyes. Someday I would like to paint my room a pale blue (tint).

I really like most of the colors, but my least favorite color is orange. To some, orange represents warmth. To me, is says angry and stressful. It reminds me of someone who is in a rush or panicking. I don't see orange that much in logos but when i do, it is usually for something that I don't like. For example I don't like orange flavored soda, you can see orange in the Fanta soda logo.

Sketchbook and Illustrator

This week we were given the option of choosing a bird, tree, house or flower and drawing it twenty different times in our sketchbook. I decided that I would be drawing a flower. It took a while but once I was done, I had a variety of flowers scattered across my page. From Roses to Begonias I had drawn and now I had to be up to the challenge of recreating one of them in Adobe Illustrator. So far, we have only learned how to use the rectangle tool, shaper tool, selection tool, and the color tool so my options were slim. I ended up creating a beautiful blue Daisy. That wasn't enough, the Daisy looked lonely and out of place on the plain white canvas. So I gave it some grass to grow from, a sun to look at, and a cloud for a little shade. In the end, I really liked what I had made but I wish I could make it more diverse. Maybe once we have learned how to use more tools in Adobe Illustrator I will return to this project and add more.
My twenty flowers:
My Adobe Illustrator Daisy:

The Illustrator Experience

This week, we learned how to use a new Adobe program called Adobe Illustrator, which is the main building block program for graphic design. You may be wondering why we use this program instead of Photoshop. Adobe Illustrator is a program that uses vectored images and Photoshop uses pixels. In other words, If you went into Photoshop and enlarged a picture to its fullest size and compared it to a fully enlarged picture in Adobe Illustrator you would see a very pixelated looking, bad quality picture in Photoshop and a nice clear image in Adobe Illustrator. We learned how to use many tools that are used for basic designs such as the tools used for shapes: the star tool, ellipse tool, rectangle tool, and the polygon tool. It is easy to make different shapes of different sizes using these tools. We also learned how to color the shapes we had created using the fill tool. First you must select the shape tool and then double click the fill tool in your toolbar. A window will pop up allowing you to choose the color of your shape and then apply it easily. I am excited to learn what else I can make with this program and I am looking forward to our next project.