Finished Calender

This is the end product of my sheepish calender design.

5A: Calender project Is ALMOST DONE!

FINALLY!!! All flat colors are done and in. Now to start a whole new process of adding shadows to make this a fancy looking Calender that is Website worthy!!!

Also, I know I was told to make it simple and not really have anything around the borders but I figured putting wool there wouldn't be the worse thing in the world. Also, making numbers out of knitted string was probably the second most fun thing about this project. That and finally illustrating on the computer.

Calender project update

So, I would say that I'm about 65-70% done with this design. I've started the flat coloring and am now sketching out the yarn ball design that I want to have as the border of my comic. I'm going to include later the speech bubble and text along with the calender days after I am completely done with the coloring. I must have spent at least 3-5 hours on just the color for this. I am also debating having the sheep skin color as the background color for the outside. I still have to show a background in the scene also so they aren't just floating around in space! So much to do, so little time!

Week 4B: Calender Progress

So this is a very rough computer drawing of my calender design. Yes, I am still working on her boots. The reason for them looking so blah is the fact that I'm using a mouse to draw them on the computer (they weren't in the original sketch that I have.) I'm adding her feet so that I don't have to get rid of the sheep's feet because I feel they are necessary to show his shivering. After this is completed I need to start working on the Flat colors for this little illustration.

Week 3B

Since we were instructed to take our own original photos for this Calender project, I went to the Oley Turnpike Dairy and took multiple photos of Sheep and one of goats. Where I got really lucky is the fact that the petting zoo had a sheared sheep (which goes along with my idea). I will be taking other photos of those bus stop benches with a girl sitting and knitting soon; I just have to get knitting needles and yarn from my mother first!

My main idea for my October themed calender was to have a girl knitting on a bus bench and a sheared shiver sheep to come over and ask her for his coat back (the wool yarn). I'm thinking of placing the name "Mary" somewhere to insinuate "Mary had a little lamb". I want to have a cold-like feel to the coloring and a comic scene type feel to the illustration. I plan on drawing it out on paper, inking it with sharpies, then scanning it in and working on it on Illustrator. 

October Mood Board

This is my October moodboard. The sub-theme I kinda came up with from my mindmap was along the thoughts of the weather becoming colder, so because of that we all start wearing sweaters and I personally get my sweaters from my mother who knits. Then I corolated knitting with wool and then sheep from wool. That pretty much sums up this entire mood board. I also added some fall themed stuff in the design area of my moodboard because I couldn't get my mind off the fact that October is a month in the fall. I'm not sure if I'll use fall in the final draft of my calender design but I will get to that eventually.

Mindmapping for October

Our in class assignment for today was to create a mind map. An open-minded free-flowing chart of words and ideas all centered around the main topic which was "October". 

Summaries from Lydia

Lydia Summary
Two things about colors: CMYK = Cyan, magenta, yellow, and key (black). These colors are made for print. RGB = Red, green, and blue. These colors are made for web and screen graphics Fills and Strokes video was about exactly that: Fills and strokes. Fill is pretty much everything within an enclosed path while stroke is just the color of the path line. Next was paths which is the skeleton of any shape/design and anchors which are that skeleton's joints that connect everything together. In that part of the video assignment I found it cool that while you are creating a shape such as a star, if you hit the up arrow you can add more points to the star. Very awesome! Then the man moved on to joining and averaging paths which are pretty much the same thing  (merging two anchor points together to just make one joining path. Last but not least was the scissors and knife tool. That was just review since the professor went over it in class. scissors is more percise while the knife tool is more free flowing for things like curves. 

Tracing logos and figuring out Illustrator

In class we were assigned to remake eight logos using Adobe Illustrator. You would think a little class assignment like that would be easy, but for me it was the exact opposite.

I must have asked for help 3 times before I had to walk out of the room to calm down from being so frustrated! Fortunately I got some extra help from an Illustrator friend. Turns out that when I was trying to manipulate the pen tool to create curves around the original logos I wasn't switching over to the selection tool but was trying to use the pen tool to move the handles. Whoops! After I realized that, tracing and filling the logos was easy as pie.

If anything I learned from this assignment how to use the pen tool, what anchors/handles/and paths are, how to fill certain paths, how to merge two different pieces together to make one logo, and how to trace on Illustrator.