Last week, I had finished the outline of one of the main characters from Gravity Falls and started practicing on free drawing my ANIMATION title for the mural. Essentially, I used a pad provided by my teacher and hooked it in the computer. From there, I hopped on Illustrator, opened the ANIMATION file, created new …
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Mural Update: 10/13
On last week’s update post, I had just begun outlining the Gravity Falls sketch of Dipper and Mabel on Illustrator. I had left off on Dippers Face , started off from there, and completed outlining him. Here’s the complete outline on sketch and without: On the next update post, I’m going to finish up Mabel’s …
Mural Update: 10/6
Last time on the mural, I had created the ANIMATION title and its many color palettes. Now, I’m working on creating characters that will be around the title. The characters I have chosen are from a show called Gravity Falls. Firstly, I sketched and drew the two main characters from the show, Dipper and Mabel, …
Mural: Animation Update 9/15
From where I last left off, I had 4 artboards each having the title ANIMATION with its unique color palette. Well I expanded the artboards and color palettes by adding another 4 in the mix. Going from left to right, we have Cotton Candy, Hulk, Complimentary, Secondary, Superman Logo 1, Pastel, Superman Logo 2, and …
DECA Shirts Update – 9/10
Originally for the shirt, I wanted to add a motion blur effect on the MOMUMENTUM part of the DECA motto “MAXIMIZE YOUR MOMUMENTUM” to convey movement and then played around with the colors from the school, which produced the following: However, I noticed that one of my partners had created a running figure with a …
Mural Update and DECA Shirt Project: 8/27
From where I last left off, I had filled in the colors and added shadow for the original one in the bottom left corner in the picture below. Then, I reshaped the letters to achieve the same exact thickness and create a smoother transition from each letter. Lastly, I made 3 other artboards with them …
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Mural Update: 8/25
I began working the on mural project and sketched with the ANIMATION TITLE to fit with the style of the Superman text, which took a couple tries because of its forced perspective. Then, I took the sketch into illustrator where I used the pen tool to trace and edited the letters, using the Superman text …
InDesign: Lesson 6
This lesson of InDesign was all about text and spelling, which I had been taught. Here are all of the many ways that I learned and what panels I used: To begin, I learned about changing word formats and different words using the Find/Change panel. This panel allows you to type in a work to …
InDesign: Lesson 5
Throughout this lesson, I learned how to effectively manipulate text and add changes to it. Here are all of the different concepts I learned about text and what the final product looks like: In this part of the lesson, I learned how to thread text while using the selection tool. With text threading, you can …
InDesign: Lesson 4
In this lesson, there were a lot of concepts that I had to practice, so here’s a quick summarized explanation. Between this text is the final product. In the beginning, I learned about the layers in InDesign and how they work like stacking. There are ways to stack layers of your work to place them …
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