Thursday, April 25, 2013

Me messing with the gradient


Designs based on words

This is my image for the word "active." What makes it look active and doing something is how almost everything is on an angle, also, the blue and orange contrast is very eye catching. The way it's structured almost makes it look like a rocket ship in the nigh sky, or a shooting star.
This is my image for the word, you guessed it, "quiet." What makes it look quiet is how the font looks somewhat handwritten and skinny,  also how the word is almost the same color as the background makes it much quieter than if I had used standard black. What also makes it quiet is how all the letters are lower case.
I made this image to represent the word "loud." What makes it loud is how large the letters are, and how they are all clustered together, providing little negative space.
This is my white on black design. What I did was had two letters that were round, and had other letters orbiting around them.
This is my "stable" design. I have no letters on an angle, and every letter appears to be on solid ground and supporting each other.
This design uses color, the lines of yellow help guide your eyes up and down the page while the subtle gradient guides your eyes from left to right.
This design is for the word "camo." The words are subtle and blend in with the backgrounds they're put in.
This design is for the word "implied." You have to look at it more than once to see that it spells the word. Plus, it is very faint and you can't tell whether the letters are the background or the negative space is. 

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Different effects with illustrator


Good designs involving words (not mine)

This piece is very active, the letters are jumbled, you can barely read them, they draw a face.
This piece is very calm and soothing, everything seems to be on a path, and has very eye catching contrast. The image is almost psychedelic in nature. 
This piece is very stable, the whitish grey contrasts against the blackness of of the space around it. The text is all on a very straight line is placed in a spot where it is supported by the nebula, thus looking stable. The imagery is also very quiet in nature, the text is seemingly small compared to the negative space.