Friday, August 10, 2012

Ricks Italian Cafe

 The original menu is cheaply laminated and very hard to look at. The front of the menu is just a dirty ugly blank page and the font is ugly and small. So I decided to use their menu to revamp. The owner of the restaurant is my neighbor and when I told him I was going to work on his menu for a class, he got very excited and let me mess around in the kitchen and bar to take pictures and stuff. When I showed him this mock-up (which is actually only the beginning) he decided to pay me for it!!! 

So here is the front cover of the menu with his hand drawn logo and wines from his bar along with the inside of his fire-oven.  

 This is the first page of the menu. I had wanted to frame everything so it looked more separated but the owner said he thought it looked busy that way so I kept it as it. I changed the menu around with his approval. Before, the menu just listed tons and tons of pasta options and it was a very long, messy list that was repetitive. So I turned it into a step by step process, which I thought would be more interactive for guests and less messy.
 For this part, I also turned the pizza into a step by step process that is easily editable because they wanted to add more steps. I learned about lining a text box with squiggles and I think it is fun but still keeps with the integrity of the menu. The brick is actually the front of someones apartment complex, I thought it looked "old-timey" and then I Photoshop in the grapes from his bar. That. took. so. long. Going in there detail by detail was brutal but I think I did a good job considering. I warped and free transformed the leaves and vines so it looks like they match up and are attached to the grapes and each other.
 I know it was not necessary to do the wine menu, but I thought I would go the extra mile and do it anyway. I got this great picture of a trellis that was in the restaurant and used it as the background, but I also changed the hue and saturation to make it look a little more purple. It ended up being a happy accident and I really like the way it turned out. I made the grape and vine divider in Illustrator.

All in all I think I did a very good job. Especially considering my computer broke and I had to start from scratch on someone elses computer. I think I made the menu very professional and very much in line with the Italian way. 

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Great pics I got!

So The owner of Ricks Cafe gave me a tour and showed me parts of the kitchen and bar and I got to take a lot of great high quality pictures and mess around with placement and stuff. They even cut out a cheese block in the shape of "UT" for me! I am going to incorporate these pics into the menu:







Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Progress?

So this is what I have done so far. It is a trifold menu and the middle panel would be the front. I have just built up the furnace but have yet to make it blend in with the rest of the brick. I am working with the owner of the actual restaurant owner (he is my neighbor) for pictures of the kitchen, restaurant, and the brick oven. I have not started on the actual menu yet because the design and layout has taken me so long! But I think once I am done making this part look perfect, then the rest will be pretty fast. I have actually used more tools in making this menu than I have on any other project. I have taught myself a lot and I am excited to see the outcome.  

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Finally Done!

Last night I finished everything. Although mine may not look as good as other peoples that I have seen, I am still pretty proud of mine. Given that I am not an art major or minor I think I used my limited knowledge in what looks good and what doesn't, pretty well. I started off wanting to do the diving with sharks for the Aquarium because I wanted to use the pictures that I took when I went diving. But as I started designing my template, I used less pictures and more details. I think I could vamp it up a little bit and add a little more to it if I got the chance, but I am still pretty proud of it!

I used Illustrator to create all of the vector shapes and the gradients and then transferred it over to Photoshop where I added masks to the pictures so I could erase them to match the shapes. I did this pixel by pixel and it took a painstakingly long time but the outcome is pretty high quality I think. After that, I moved the whole thing over to InDesign where I messed around with the texts. I liked being able to control how bold or Italicized everything was. Another helpful tool was the All Caps button or the No Caps button. It made it quick and simple to see what words I wanted in all caps and what looked like too much without having to retype everything. Also, I liked the tracker tool. It helped me see what kind of changes I was making once I got to a certain point. That way if I didn't like what I was doing, I could just decline the changes and I did not have to worry about it. It saved a lot of time and accidents.  

Monday, August 6, 2012

The Aquarium

I have chosen to do the Florida Aquarium newsletter. I want to highlight either their Scientific Dive Program since it has been in the news lately for discovering things about Florida's history that we did not know, or their Shark Dive Experience. I have been diving regularly for many years, and although I have not dove with this particular aquarium, I have done shark dives before so I think that it would be a very interesting topic to possibly create a newsletter for. I have created a template for the newsletter but it is a little messy so I have uploaded a picture of what I first planned out with pen and paper. It is really just the basics but it is starting to look a little more impressive now that I am putting color into it.


Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Final Work

Here are a few of my final Sound as Image pictures. I actually am very proud of mine. I chose a couple things in each picture and got extremely detailed with it. (I did not do it on purpose but I realize now that is what I did).



The most complicated thing I did in this set of images was make the phones and the turning pages in the book. I drew all of these out before I started on them, but a lot changed as I was going. 

Monday, July 30, 2012

Planning Out

So far I have done almost all of our Sound as Image projects. I am having the hardest time doing the car over a bridge one. I can not seem to visualize what that noise could be. I know there are vibrations and such but I have been redoing it many times and am just going back to square one.
My favorite one so far has been the one I created myself and the whirring of a fan. With the fan project, I created a book whose pages were being flipped by the fan. The book took me the longest time to create but I am very proud of it. Pictures will be posted later!

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Gradient Mesh Project

Ok so I am finally done! Here is the mesh and the final picture...



Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Cow Kettle

So here is what I have so far. It still needs tweeking but I am like 75% done.
Let me know what you think!

Monday, July 23, 2012

Opposites Posters

I am finally done!!! I spent my entire weekend on these posters as well as most of last week. But I am quite proud of the outcome and I learned a TON by doing this project.  I will post another one tomorrow describing all of my steps and the tools that I used to get this done. Please let me know what you think! I don't think I have ever spent so much time on a project!




I chose to make one horizontal and one landscape because they represented opposites of each other. I stuck with a lot of blue hues in the natural one to give it a calming feeling and to also combat the overexposure of some of the pictures. I purposefully made the Synthetic poster very many conflicting colors and materials. I wanted it to be busy. I made "Natural" look like it was moving in the waves and "Synthetic" look rubbery and elastic like clothes or other man made products.
I used a lot of different tricks and layering techniques that I will go into much further detail on tomorrow morning when my computer is not over heating.


Tools you might want

Ok so at the beginning of this project, on like the first day that she described it to us, I basically sat down at the computer and just watched a ton of How To's on Photoshop so I could get a really good idea of how I wanted to manipulate my photos. I found some really cool stuff, most of what I watched, I never used and will probably never use, but the ones I actually found helpful I have listed below. These might be helpful for any of you who are burning the midnight oil and need some inspiration.

This one taught me how to use Copy Merge. I was not even looking for it when I was researching, but stumbled upon it and used it like 4 times to manipulate my photos. It is kind of like a "merge layers" but without actually merging all the layers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IPNq4-k3Es

This is a really knowledgeable guy that talks about how to use the warp tool, which I used on both of my words. I found the warp tool on my own, but I thought posting a video would be more interesting than explaining.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_pkpBEVYZE

I also found that the "blending options" on your layers can add really cool effects. It is probably set on your Photoshop to normal. But if you click the drop down, there are a bunch of different things you can do. I had SO MUCH FUN with this tool! I created my own blend of fabrics using this tool. For example I piled two dresses on top of eachother and "overlayed" the top one so it blended into the bottom one, making the bottom go from matte to shiny and sparkly. I definitely recommend that you try it!

Problems Problems

So I am working on my project and the first one is almost done but when I saved it, it came out "pixel-ly" and very dark with a green tint. I am not sure if I am saving it wrong or what is happening...I tried both flattened and unflattened. I saved it as a Jpeg? Not sure what is going on but here is the picture. As you can see the colors are so saturated.  The photo on the right is the correct, and the one on the left is the issue...suggestions? 



Sunday, July 22, 2012

Natural Vs Synthetic

So I am doing my opposite posters on Natural VS Synthetic. I originally started on a different one, but my ideas were a little unrealistic. So now I am doing this one and am really excited. I have put in a lot of layers already and have started experimenting with a number of things. Here is what I have so far. I took it in the Adirondacks in New York. This is a picture of the base couple of layers without the bells and whistles.


Saturday, July 21, 2012

Projects

I am going a little bit on project overload. I keep picking up one project and working on it, and then stopping it to do another. They are all taking much more time than I anticipated and I really hope I do a good job on them. So far, I feel I have gotten very creative with the sound with image one however, and when I figure out how to take screen shots I will show you guys!

Thursday, July 19, 2012

My Tiles

The top right one is pretty grotesque. I started to just give myself bangs and then went overboard with the clone tool and a couple of other tools. 
I had a lot of fun with this project just because I really like the projects that let us explore and figure things out on our own. I learned a lot and definately learned from my mistake on a couple of these. It definately gave me more appreciation for layers as well.

Opposites Poster

So I tried to get a head start on our assignment where we need to create 2 posters with opposite effects/feelings/adjectives etc. I was having a super hard time coming up with any kind of opposites that seemed interesting/possible to do. So I made a list of all the ones that interested me. Maybe it will give someone else inspiration!
Just a little bit of brainstorming. I did not think I would hit such a wall with the subject but maybe something will come to me...

Photoshop Tools

In class, we were supposed to Photoshop our selves and two other objects into a picture. I chose water and a water park as the 2 objects. I also put in a little safari truck and lion in the corner. The whole project took me the whole time in class but I feel I learned a lot about the tools used in Photoshop. I really like the need for attention to detail.

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

More practice

So I have been struggling to be good at this pen tool so I grabbed another couple of icons and practiced a little more. I put them side by side so it'd be easier to compare. The original for the Wings is on top and the original for the pandas is on the right. Although my panda does not look very similar to the example, I am actually still pretty proud of it because at least it is recognizable as a panda... and that's progress!

Logos...

Ok so here are my logos. I tried not to use any shortcuts or anything...but as you can see, it was a lot more difficult than I originally thought and they are pretty disappointing. With the Chilis logo, I used a lot of parts from circles and used the eye drop tool to match the color. The actual chili was the most time consuming. For the black and white logo, I basically drew out a crude version of the shapes and then went through and erased them. Pinterest I just used the paint button. the "s"'s and "e"'s were the hardest. But I am very proud of the "P" and the "t". Overall it took me about four hours to work on everything.

Logos

So I have started to work on the logos and I am encountering a couple difficulties. But I really like the practice that the homework is giving me. The logos have been a good exercise to work around Illustrator but I am still not completely comfortable with the program. I was trying to wait to make a post until I had a picture of the logo I was working on but I will just post it later. 

Monday, July 9, 2012

My first Project!

I am not sure if I am supposed to post it up yet or not, but I just finished and wanted to share! Here is my code (I think about 700 lines?) and the picture. It doesn't look like much but it took a long time. I hope its ok!




<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<script>
window.onload = function() {
var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
var context = canvas.getContext("2d");

////////////////////////////////////// start here
//canvas border for gradient

context.beginPath();
        context.rect(0, 0, 800, 600);
        context.fillStyle = '#8ED6FF';
        context.fill();
        context.stroke();
// add linear gradient
        var grd = context.createLinearGradient(400, 0, 400, 600);
        // black
        grd.addColorStop(0, "#000000");
    // more black
    grd.addColorStop(.2, "#000000");
        // blue
        grd.addColorStop(.7, "#2609B4");
    // sunset colors
    grd.addColorStop(1, "#F80683");
        context.fillStyle = grd;
        context.fill();
// Sun
var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX2 = 400;
        var centerY2 = 500;
        var radius2 = 60;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX2, centerY2, radius2, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "brown";
        context.fill();

// add linear gradient to SUN
        var grd = context.createLinearGradient(400, 430, 400, 570);
        // yellow
        grd.addColorStop(0, "#FAEA06");
    // orange
    grd.addColorStop(1, "#FA8006");
        context.fillStyle = grd;
        context.fill();

// Saturn
var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 575;
        var centerY = 125;
        var radius = 45;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "brown";
        context.fill();

// add linear gradient to SATURN
        var grd = context.createLinearGradient(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        // yellow
        grd.addColorStop(0, "#450606");
    // brown/red
    grd.addColorStop(.2, "#EBCD0C");
    // yellow
    grd.addColorStop(.5, "#450606");
        // dark yellow
        grd.addColorStop(.7, "#605A32");
    // orange brown
    grd.addColorStop(1, "#503414");
        context.fillStyle = grd;
        context.fill();

// Piramid 1
context.beginPath();
context.moveTo(200, 400);
context.lineTo(400, 600);
context.bezierCurveTo(175, 600, 175, 600, 0, 600);
context.lineTo(200, 400);
context.fillStyle = "#E4A316";
context.fill();
context.strokeStyle = "#CB9624";
context.stroke();

//piramid shadow
context.beginPath();
context.moveTo(200, 400);
context.lineTo(450, 600);
context.bezierCurveTo(425, 600, 425, 600, 400, 600);
context.fillStyle = "#A17415";
context.fill();
context.strokeStyle = "#A17415";
context.stroke();

// Piramid 2
context.beginPath();
context.moveTo(550, 400);
context.lineTo(725, 600);
context.bezierCurveTo(550, 600, 550, 600, 400, 600);
context.lineTo(550, 400);
context.fillStyle = "#E4A316";
context.fill();
context.strokeStyle = "#BF8A19";
context.stroke();

//piramid 2 shadow
context.beginPath();
context.moveTo(550, 400);
context.lineTo(775, 600);
context.bezierCurveTo(750, 600, 750, 600, 725, 600);
context.lineTo(550, 400);
context.fillStyle = "#B07E12";
context.fill();
context.strokeStyle = "#BF8A19";
context.stroke();

// Saturns ring
context.beginPath();
context.moveTo(500, 50);
context.lineTo(570, 80);  
context.bezierCurveTo(525, 53, 525, 53, 625, 185);  
context.fill();

context.beginPath();
context.moveTo(625, 185);
context.lineTo(610, 155);
context.stroke();

//green star
        var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 700;
        var centerY = 200;
        var radius = 20;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
//green star gradient
var grd = context.createLinearGradient(670, 220, 730, 170);
        // light green
        grd.addColorStop(0, "#7BF573");
        // dark green
        grd.addColorStop(1, "#1E491A");
        context.fillStyle = grd;
        context.fill();
        context.strokeStyle = "#1E491A";
        context.stroke();

//pink planet
        var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 750;
        var centerY = 50;
        var radius = 30;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
// pink star gradient      
var grd = context.createLinearGradient(720, 20, 780, 80);
        // pink
        grd.addColorStop(0, "#FA08F2");
        // gray
        grd.addColorStop(1, "#474047");
        context.fillStyle = grd;
        context.fill();
        context.stroke();

//shooting star
        var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX3 = 150
        var centerY3 = 70
        var radius3 = 10;
     
     context.beginPath();
     context.arc(centerX3, centerY3, radius3, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
context.fillStyle = "white";
        context.fill();
        context.lineWidth = 2;
        context.strokeStyle = "grey";
        context.stroke();

// shooting star 2 color gradient
var grd = context.createLinearGradient(145, 68, 153, 72);
        // white
        grd.addColorStop(0, "white");
        // grey
        grd.addColorStop(1, "#857F8E");
        context.fillStyle = grd;
        context.fill();


//shooting star tale
    context.beginPath();
    context.moveTo(150, 70);
    context.lineTo(75, 40);  
    context.bezierCurveTo(142, 68, 148, 68, 50, 60);
    context.lineTo(146, 70);  
    context.fill();

//shooting star 2
        var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX4 = 300;
        var centerY4 = 200;
        var radius4 = 25;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX4, centerY4, radius4, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "white";
        context.fill();
        context.lineWidth = 2;
        context.strokeStyle = "grey";
        context.stroke();
// shooting star 2 color gradient
var grd = context.createLinearGradient(290, 200, 325, 200);
        // white
        grd.addColorStop(0, "white");
        // grey
        grd.addColorStop(1, "#857F8E");
        context.fillStyle = grd;
        context.fill();
   
//shooting star tale 2
    context.beginPath();
    context.moveTo(295, 195);
    context.lineTo(200, 75);  
    context.bezierCurveTo(290, 210, 273, 210, 150, 130);
    context.lineTo(280, 200)  
    context.fill();

//little stars
        var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 400;
        var centerY = 80;
        var radius = 5;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "#8ED6FF";
        context.fill();
context.lineWidth = 5;
        context.strokeStyle = "black";
        context.stroke();

       var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 350;
        var centerY = 150;
        var radius = 5;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "#8ED6FF";
        context.fill();

       var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 190;
        var centerY = 50;
        var radius = 3;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "#8ED6FF";
        context.fill();

       var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 280;
        var centerY = 20;
        var radius = 3;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "white";
        context.fill();

       var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 295;
        var centerY = 80;
        var radius = 4;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "white";
        context.fill();

       var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 400;
        var centerY = 20;
        var radius = 2;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "white";
        context.fill();

       var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 350;
        var centerY = 40;
        var radius = 2;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "#8ED6FF";
        context.fill();

       var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 235;
        var centerY = 60;
        var radius = 2;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "#8ED6FF";
        context.fill();
     
var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 135;
        var centerY = 18;
        var radius = 2;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "white";
        context.fill();

       var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 20;
        var centerY = 100;
        var radius = 2;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "white";
        context.fill();

       var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 30;
        var centerY = 80;
        var radius = 2;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "#8ED6FF";
        context.fill();

       var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 35;
        var centerY = 30;
        var radius = 3;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "white";
        context.fill();

       var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 430;
        var centerY = 30;
        var radius = 3;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "white";
        context.fill();

       var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 470;
        var centerY = 60;
        var radius = 2;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "white";
        context.fill();

       var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 500;
        var centerY = 35;
        var radius = 2;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "white";
        context.fill();

       var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 545;
        var centerY = 20;
        var radius = 2;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "#8ED6FF";
        context.fill();

       var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 600;
        var centerY = 45;
        var radius = 3;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "#8ED6FF";
        context.fill();

       var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 610;
        var centerY = 20;
        var radius = 3;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "white";
        context.fill();

       var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 630;
        var centerY = 30;
        var radius = 2;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "white";
        context.fill();

       var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 700;
        var centerY = 90;
        var radius = 2;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "white";
        context.fill();

       var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 670;
        var centerY = 70;
        var radius = 2;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "white";
        context.fill();

       var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 720;
        var centerY = 20;
        var radius = 3;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "#8ED6FF";
        context.fill();

       var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 680;
        var centerY = 30;
        var radius = 2;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "#8ED6FF";
        context.fill();


       var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 300;
        var centerY = 30;
        var radius = 2;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "#8ED6FF";
        context.fill();

       var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 490;
        var centerY = 100;
        var radius = 4;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "white";
        context.fill();


       var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 460;
        var centerY = 85;
        var radius = 3;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "white";
        context.fill();

       var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 375;
        var centerY = 85;
        var radius = 3;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "white";
        context.fill();

// ground
        var canvas = document.getElementById('myCanvas');
        var context = canvas.getContext('2d');

        context.beginPath();
        context.rect(0, 600, 800, 700);
        context.fillStyle = '#F6E549';
        context.fill();

//oasis water
        var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");

        context.beginPath();
        context.moveTo(0, 625);

        // line 1
        context.lineTo(200, 675);

        // quadratic curve
        context.quadraticCurveTo(225, 680, 350, 625);

// bezier curve
        context.bezierCurveTo(370, 610, 325, 610, 500, 650);

// quadratic curve
        context.quadraticCurveTo(550, 660, 800, 645);


        context.lineWidth = 8;
        context.strokeStyle = "blue";
context.stroke();

// foliage
       var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 200;
        var centerY = 670;
        var radius = 4;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "green";
        context.fill();
     
var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 205;
        var centerY = 670;
        var radius = 4;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "#22E02B";
        context.fill();

var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 210;
        var centerY = 670;
        var radius = 4;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "green";
        context.fill();
     
var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 203;
        var centerY = 664;
        var radius = 4;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "green";
        context.fill();

var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 207;
        var centerY = 663;
        var radius = 4;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "#22E02B";
        context.fill();

// foliage 2
       var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 375;
        var centerY = 625;
        var radius = 4;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "green";
        context.fill();
     
var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 368;
        var centerY = 626;
        var radius = 4;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "#22E02B";
        context.fill();

var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 364;
        var centerY = 622;
        var radius = 4;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "green";
        context.fill();
     
var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 363;
        var centerY = 630;
        var radius = 4;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "green";
        context.fill();

var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
        var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
        var centerX = 372;
        var centerY = 632;
        var radius = 4;

        context.beginPath();
        context.arc(centerX, centerY, radius, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
        context.fillStyle = "#22E02B";
        context.fill();

////////////////////////////////////// end here

};

</script>
</head>
<body>
<canvas id="myCanvas" width="800" height="700"></canvas>
</body>
</html>

New Ideas



So I originally spent about 15 hours on my Lorax idea and literally got no where because I just did not know where to start. I went to Channelside for dinner that night and saw the spray painter making a beautiful space scene. It had a lot of detail and really impressed me. When I came back to tackle my Lorax, I realized I would have a lot more fun doing something similar to Manuel's space scenes and I thought it would be a lot more interesting to look at and I would have a lot more opportunity to play with colors. So I sketched this up on Saturday night and have been working on it since. It is still challenging but I think it will be much more interesting. These are the preliminary drawings. It looks pretty bare bones right now but I fully plan on doing more with it.   
 Below is the correct one that is to scale of the canvas. It just looks really messy because my ideas have been changing as I am drawing. For example, I originally made hills, but by accident I made one of them pointy and really liked the way it looked like a pyramid, so I kept it. 

Sunday, July 8, 2012

The Lorax

This is the image that I am going to start with. I think it will probably turn out very different but I needed a starting idea. I got the idea when i thought about how the colors we were learning about in HTML made everything look like a cartoon. Doctor Seuss cartoons are the most interesting to me with the most interesting shapes and colors. I am hoping to add more in the background (like Seuss trees and such). Hope I can swing this!

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

First Impressions

My name is Shelby and I am 20 years old. My major is Advertising and PR and my concentration is Marketing with a minor in Business and Finance. I was raised on a very small and secluded island not far from Tallahassee (the nearest mall was 2 hours away). I am still getting used to living in a city but so far I love it. I have been to 10 countries and if I could spend my whole life traveling, I would. I am an adventurer and love anything that gives me an adrenaline jump. I have bridge jumped, cliff jumped, scuba dived, swam with killer whales, and white water rafted.

My first take on Beginning Digital Arts was good. Although sitting still for 4 hours straight was very hard. I appreciated the mini-breaks we were given though. I did not expect to be taking so many notes but I learned more in that one class about computers and the history of computers than I have in any other computer class.           I like details and tedious work so writing the code in class was fun and interesting. The idea of the grid was very well explained and although I had no background in anything that was being lectured, I was still able to easily follow and grasp the concepts. I am glad that all of it was explained well and thoroughly otherwise I don't think I would have understood.

By the end of this class, I hope that I really get a good basis for the things I will be learning in Graphic Design. If all goes well than I may consider following this path as a career. I hope the classes are very hands-on and I am excited to start exploring the tools we will be using.