In this project, I played with realism in a way I never really had before. I wanted to make my logos for the cans look like they could really be there. Messing with the image and trying to make them all look they were part of the same brand.

• What was easy?

Coming up with the concept and picking the colors and alliteration to go along with it. The original sketch ideas came pretty easy as well.

• What was challenging?

Drawing and using a lot more shading in my art then I’m used to.

• How could your submission be improved?

Adding more color variety, especially for Heracles Harlequin. Could’ve added more highlights in general. I’m always scared to add to many highlights and I need to stop that

• How did a specific reading or video inspire or help you?

Greek Mythology is the inspiration and the designs mostly come from already existing myths

• What did you learn?

Playing with color to help make uniform art that looks connected. Also trying to find font that looks good with the art.

• What was easy?

Set-up and putting it together

• What was challenging?

Finding a good font and drawing the art.

• How could your submission be improved?

Playing with the menu more, making it look more like a menu.

• How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?

To make uniform art

• How did a specific reading or video inspire or help you?

Ratatoing

Working in Illustrator, I was able to learn new ways to manipulate text as well as use clipping masking efficiently with patterns.

• What was easy?

Coming up with the color scheme as well as a general idea of how I wanted the poster to look.

• What was challenging?

Personally, trying to figure out why the clipping mask wasn’t working as well as finding a type of type that I wanted to use. Once I was able to figure out clipping mask, it was fine. Though I don’t know if I’m completely happy with how the text came out

• How could your submission be improved?

playing with the pattern more would probably make the background look better.

• How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?

Increasing my knowledge of illustrator, and adobe, can help any projects I do in the future.

• How did a specific reading or video inspire or help you?

The mini series over the garden wall was the inspiration for the whole project. The color schemes of the show and autumn in general helped decide how I was going do this project.

I was able to learn more about the structure of Illustrator as well as how to change images from realistic to something that looks more like drawings.

What was easy?

Working with Procreate for my one image was easy since I already knew the program. I also knew how I wanted to edit the images right away, with a comic book style.

What was challenging?

I had a lot of difficulty trying to get Illustrator to do what I wanted, especially with the hair. I still don’t think it looks as good as I want. Also, picking the colors for illustrator and even procreate was challenging since I didn’t want to have too many colors in the image.

How could your submission be improved?

I think I could play with the backgrounds more for both, and play with the colors in the hair for the illustrator more. For Illustrator too, go into the demon, creepy feel more.

How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?

Knowing how to do this in photoshop, procreate, and Illustrator can help any project I might do in the future based on an existing image.

How did a specific reading or video inspire or help you?

The style for the art is very comic book shading.

In photoshop, we learned different ways to color and fill with an existing photo. How to use the smudge tool, mixer, and how to use the fill with the lasso tool.

• What was easy?

Using the tools, like fill and smudge, were easy. It did take time however.

• What was challenging?

I had a lot of difficulty using the mixer tool.

• How could your submission be improved?

With practice and a better understanding of how these tools than I can improve the overall quality of the lab.

• How could I improve the assignment for the next class?

Playing with the tools, like mixer, and settings to try and find what works better for me.

• How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?

Knowing how to color and mix in photoshop can help with any project and help with better understand how to make in photoshop.