I did Ancient Greece because I thought I could have fun working with this myths and creating what maybe what we would have seen at the time if they had stamps. I was inspired to do this because of my obsession with classics and a recent podcast I’ve been listening to.

I learned typography tactics which were really fun to learn and how to fit the letters in a way that were aesthetically pleasing. Also, working with the previous color knowledge to make the stamp look good rather than an eye sour.

It was challenging sometimes to see spacing problems in the letters or try to find the best way to make it look even. However, I think it was do to my inexperience with changing type and it was easier to find problems the longer I worked on the project, though I’m sure I still missed some things.

Coming up with the original idea as easy as well as deciding what colors I want for each the different stamps.

The third stamp, the Gods, I feel could definite be improved. It loos overall more cartoony in a bad way, but I like the lightning bolt across the middle and like the overall design. I’m not sure how to fix it, but it could use work.

typography itself is really useful skill to have and I really enjoyed doing it. creating posters, working on art, or promotional material could use this kind of knowledge and I would love to do things like that.

It was easy coming up with the idea as well as working in Photoshop with masking the images and combining them. However, there were things I wanted to add to the project that I couldn’t figure how to do because of my lack of experience in the program. Such as creating shadow gradient on the heart to make it look more realistic..

I took a while for me to understand the pattern creation, but after I got it it was fun creating the pattern and figuring out how I wanted it to look.

adding shading and lighting to the rose and hand I think would make it stand out more with the background and make it look more realistic.

I changed the project from “Love is Blind” and though I liked the image, I do like the creepy imagery of the heart as well.

Next time I liked to be able to make the shading, but being able to combine images in photoshop makes working in the program in the future a lot easier.

I made up the new phrase for the image based on things said in class, but as the old saying of love is blind.

For the desert scene I did analogous color scheme. Doing this scene I learned how to do opacity control for the shadow of the sand dunes. Doing the gradient was annoying until I got the hang of using it, then it got easy and fun to do. it instantly added depth to the 2D image.

the underwater scene is the one I’m least proud of. I feel if I went to change it I wouldn’t know what to add, but it needs something to make it stand out more. the color scheme is complimentary with the one orange fish among the blue background and other in shadow fish.

For space I did triadic color scheme. The most challenging thing about this project was having a vision of what I wanted all the scenes to look like, but not knowing how to execute them. I need more practice in the program

For the city I did monochromatic. I learned how to create multiple windows using the blend tool. I could improve all the scenes by adding more depth, especially for the city and underwater.

For future projects working in illustrator I know how to implement some of the things I learned to make better scenes that look more professional.

it was easy for me to visualize how I wanted my project to look, however putting it together was the more difficult part of the project. Since I haven’t worked in the program, making the panels looking exactly how I wanted was a challenge. I wasn’t sure how to do certain things, like colors changing while overlapping images or changing stroke size.

Even though I enjoy the overall simplicity of my project, I like the more complex designs over people in my class came up with. I think my project would be improved with a more abstract design.

It’s the story of Little Miss Muffet through the perspective of the spider. I thought the story would work better with him as the main character and I was inspired by how in everyday life people are so scared of spiders, including myself, that the thought of that must make them sad.

For future assignments I know the basics of Illustrator and Figma that I can apply. As well as being able to bring in the rule of threes and the grid system to make my designs better and less generic.