graphics Pathway - Day 10 Colour And Illustration.

 During todays work shop we started by looking at the colour wheel, starting with the primary colours : Red, Yellow and Blue. Then making the secondary colours by adding 2 of the rimary colours together: Yellow and Red to make Orange

Red and Blue to make Purple.

Blue and Yellow to make Green.

I was really confident at making the colour wheel so i found it really easy and quick to complete.

I then started by looking at the Tertiary colours by adding:
Orange and Blue to make umber brown.
Yellow and Purple to make ocher brown.
 Red and Green to make burnt sienn's brown.
i found this task pretty simple and easy to do.

We them went on to create a illustartion for each tertiary colour by looking at a piece of text which could have been a poem a quote or a lyric.

illustration 1: 

Be there to guide me.

 Illustration 2:

But never hold me down.

 Illustration 3:

The time is killing me

i am really happy with my illustrations i think that they work very well apart from illustration 3 which is no correct to the tertiary colour for it contains black instead of green, but illustartion one and two work very well for i have used the tertiary colours, the illustration fits the quotes really well.

Graphics Pathways - Day 8 Study Zone Research

Today's task was to create a Penguin paper back book cover, spine and back featuring;
A brief synopsis about given subject
Myself as an author
Penguin logo and bar code.

My book cover could have been about any f the following things;
Advertising.
Typography.
Corporate Identity.
Way finding.
Packaging.
Illustartaion.
Poetry.
Photographic.
Motion Graphics.
Fashion promotions.
Fine art.
Film
Animation.

Here i have brain stormed some ideas of what my book could be about and what it will be named.

i decided to create a book cover for typography.

My book will be called Typography the basics and history.

Here is some design layout ideas i have quickly sketched 

to get a rough idea of how i want the layout

of my book to look like.

i created my final pice using Indesign. i really like my final out come i think if i was to change anything i would add in a litle bit over colour but i didnt want it to be over powering.

Graphics Pathways - Day 7 Using Indesign & photoshop.

Today's task was to create a poster for a 2014 film The 33 using Indesign and illustrator
The 33 is based on a true story about 33 miners who got trapped in a mine shaft in chili for over two months
in this spider diagram i have jotted down loads of things i could use for my poster.

i then started to quickly sketch out small designs for the poster using the spider diagram to help me
i found it really easy to come up with some ideas most of them just came to me naturally when i had already started drawing, i found it most hard to decided which one of the posters was best and which one i liked.

There for i decided to try out a couple of layouts only creating the back ground for now.

i created these using computer soft wear such as photoshop and Indesign.

i feel that each one of these posters didn't work well for all different reasons.

The faces of the miners or the mineshaft would look better if it was in black and white.

The minors faces is more visible then the mineshaft.

Too much colour, very unclear what it is.

still looks very clear in black and white although i think it is better.

the mineshaft in the background is to unclear would not make a very good film poster because of that reason.

Really like this image of a mine shaft especially in black and white.

Very clear that is a mine shaft.

is also very clear that then men art photo shopped into this image.

i decided to keep the image of the mine shaft from the previous image and add the flag of chile over the top of it but so you are able to see them both.

here i have changed the opacity of the flag to 50% which is not enough, the flag is to clear and it is  hard to tell that the image in the back ground is a mine shaft.

here i have changed the opacity to 40% which is much better but i still think the flag need to be even less clear for the poster to work well.

Here i have changed the opacity to 30% which works perfectly, you can see both the flag and the mine shaft with ease, now i need to now add a text to the poster explaining what the film is and pick a font for the text to be in.

I have decided to uses a very basic normal font for this poster because it is very basic bold and clear to see i didn't want it to get lost in the image.

69 Days. 2300 ft Under. 33 Men.

This is what i have added to my poster to explain what the movie is about.

very short basic easy.

Over all i really liked this work shop, i improved my skills using photoshop and InDesign strongly, i am very happy with my outcome i really enjoyed making it and going through the whole process of trial and error.I think that it fits the brief and its a good film poster and doesn't give away to much and yet says enough.

Graphics Pathways - Day 6 final manifesto

                                                                       Final 4 Manifesto.

Graphic Pathway - Day 4 & 5

Manifestos
before i started to create my own manifesto i started to have a look at some already excising ones to get some inspiration on what i wanted my manifesto to be about and what i wanted my manifesto to look like.
here are some manifestos that i found and i really like that manifestos with very limited colour and that play about with the scale of the writing aswell, they look much more professional then the other manifesto that uses lot of colour and keeps everything the same scale and font.

I then started to think about my own manifesto and how i was going to make it and what it wold say.

I decided that i would make a hand drawn manifesto and one created on the computer using illustrator and indesign. I then cam up with some ideas about what i wanted my manifesto to say.

i found some quotes that i really like and i would like to use for my manifesto, these are a few of them

1. Our Grates weakness lies in giving up, the most certain way to succeed is always to try one more time

2. if you can dream it, you can do it.

3.Life is what you make it.

4.There  is no wrong and no right.

i decided to go with "there is no wrong and right" but i wanted to change the words about abit so i then started to get down some other ways to say there is no wrong and no right.

1.There is no mistakes

2.bad is good.

3.wrong is right.

4.Doing something wrong is right.

i decided to go with " doing something wrong is right" because i felt that it sounded alot better then "there is no wrong or right", it flowes better.

There are some design layouts i have come up with.

once i had chosen which layouts i was going to use i then went on to deciding what kinda of colours i would use and if there would be a particular colour theme.

i decided that i would stick to Red, black and white colour theme for i felt that when there was colour in the back ground it was too overpowering and it didn't connect to the type.

I then went on to choosing which font i was use for my manifesto.

The words "Doing something, is" would be written in a normal classic serif font not to big or bold.

And then the word "wrong" would be written in a Gothic style font quite big and bold.

"Right" would be written in a calligraphy style font very smooth a flowy.

Once i had chosen which fonts i wanted to use i then went on to actually creating my final hand drawn pieces. i have decided to do 2 for i really like all 4 of the different fonts and i wanted to use them all
i am very happy with the out come i think that it worked very well the colour theme worked really well and i really like the wrong on my second piece where it has not been coloured in and is just a outline.
i though the best media to work with to make these pieces would be pen and ink which did work really well.

Here i have been playing around with the font for "wrong" and what colour i will uses for each font.

I have edited some of the typefaces in illustrator to make them stand out and to make them more clear, which i then added them all together in Indesign.i kept "right" the same font for both of the manifestos because i feel that it fits perfectly.

Here i have made my manifesto in just black so i can see which of the two "wrong" fonts works best.

    

I think that this manifesto below works

    best the "wrong" font is much more 

    interesting.

Here i have added some colour to my manifesto i really like using just black and red, its not to over the top and very eye catching.
once again the manifeston the the left works better then the manifesto on the right.

i really like this manifesto below i think that the writing in colour is reversed colours works really its not
to over powering or boring.its very simple bold and eye catching. 

The red is to over powering and is not very                                     Very light pink into a darker pink.
nice to look at.it would work better if                                               i really like this but it is not right for
the red was slightly lighter.                                                                             manifesto.

Rainbow filter is to overpowering, way to much colour, it is very distracting and you look at the colour more than the manifesto.


Light blue to Light green.
doesnt really work very well.

Phobias Film Poster

I then created another phobias poster but this poster is a film poster to represtent our short stop motion film that we created.I decised to use the little girl characted edie in my poster since the film is about her. Here is a few quck sketches of design ideas i had of how i wanted the poster to look.

Once i has chosen which sketch i want to develop and turn into my final poster.I created this poster on photoshop.

I then added some text in to my Poster i feel that the font chosen fits the poster very well it has a creepy scary feel to it and a some what spider feel.

I also played about with the colour of the brown paper used behind Edie.

I then decided to add a small amount of dripping blood at the top left corner of the page. I personally don think that the dripping blood works very well, it doesn't go with the rest of the poster.I much prefer the poster with out the dripping blood.

Final Phobias Poster

This is my final phobias poster.
i have kept the same background images but changed the contrasted and added a old grainy effect filter over the top, which gives it a lot more of a scary/creepy feel and it also makes the poster seem old which also can been seen as a scary effect. i also changed the typeface i think that this type faces work much better then the one before its not to powerful and doesn't take all the attention of the images.
i am very pleased with my final outcome i think it came out better then i expected and i think it is very clear from the images and the filter that this poster is about phobias.

Graphics Pathway - Phobias Poster Design Ideas

Here i have quickly sketched a few design ideas of how i could lay out my poster, i have decided that my favourite layout would be to have a image of 4 different phobias e.g Arachnophobia (fear of spiders), Coulrophobia, (fear of clowns) Scotophobia, (fear of darkness) Astraphobia (fear of lightning).

Here are my first 3 attempts at making a poster, the first poster i made i decided i would make very plain and simple, limited colour use and keeping everything in the same font.i liked the idea of this poster much more then the actual final outcome, i feel that it just didn't work as a poster is was not very visually interesting.

This is my second attempt at making my phobias poster, i decided that in this poster there would only be the work phobia and everything else would be images to show different phobias, i think that this poster works well and i really like it but the images that i have used are not scary/creepy enough there for i will find some other image's, also the type face doesn't work well with the images and as a poster font. 

This was my third attempt at making my phobias poster, the new images work much better they are much more scary and creepy but once again the typeface is not right and does not work as work for a poster it makes the poster look to cluttered and it is just too much to look at.

i want to use this background image for my poster and change the typeface to something a lot less bright.