Positive and Negative Form

I opted to use Photoshop, Illustrator and my graphics tablet for this assignment rather than drawing by hand.  Although I have used both of these programs before, I got to practice some of the tools I already knew but in a different way.  This was the first time I have used my graphics tablet which was awesome!
How did I do it....?

• Drew an outline of the image using the brush tool
• On the same layer I then used the rectangular marquee tool to outline the thumbnail shape provided and then filled in the area with black
• The tedious part came next in smoothing out / erasing lines I didn't want or had made in error while drawing the image
• I then duplicated the layer of the image I wanted from the thumbnails and transformed it into a larger representation in the corresponding thumbnails on the bottom of the assignment sheet
• Finally, I saved the whole document as a jpeg and uploaded it into Illustrator where I then 'live traced' the whole thing to vectorise the image, smoothing out the lines further

We were then asked to find examples of where whitespace has been used effectively.  Here are those examples...

 Print - Publishing 

This was an advertisement in SODA, a free Hobart based Culture & Arts magazine

 Street  Advertising 

This was one of a series of advertisements for the popular TV show Mad Men (one of my favourites).  I really like the way they incorporated the advertising into the side of the building.  For those who do not know, the opening credits of the show tells a similar story with characters falling from buildings.

 A Website  

Perhaps a well known choice, but I appreciate Apple's marketing concepts.

Black Squares

My examples of how order, bold, tension, increase, congested and playful might be used within advertisements.

 Order

Bold

Tension

Increase

Congested

Playful

My Name Is....

So here is my second assignment...we had to use our names or part thereof, to illustrate the personalities of: a chameleon, having the hiccups, a truck driver, a chef, having a headache, a professional footballer, a gender illusionist, and my own choice - a mime.

This was a pretty cool assignment - it really made the creative juices flow when considering how best to capture each of the personalities.  I also enjoyed the simplicity of using black and shades of grey.  The personalities I found most challenging were gender illusionist and professional footballer.  It was also challenging to ensure that the text/image fit within the area provided. 

All in all, a very useful project!

Scanner Story

This is my scanner story titled A Rollergirls Toolbag and depicts items which were found in my roller derby bag.  I really liked that I found a bout program in there too from our first intraleague bout!

Tried a couple of filters, color, hue and saturation adjustments - though have a long way to go as I really wanted to make the background darker so that the items stood out a little more and the colors popped.  Oh well...practice, practice!