AR 122 Two Dimensional Design, Mod 2, 2012, October 22

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

So, Part 1 looks like this:

From there, it was time to use a circular Path for the letters - I kept Arial Bold.

'Select Similar', Stroke, and Gradients all came in handy. Then it was time to build a 'structure' - mine came out (to me) like a comet, sorta:

I was liking that sphere work we had done, and I wanted to do a multiple one like in that project. Here's my favorite:

Each time, I tried to push myself to do something I hadn't before - this was a good one for experimentation. :)

The three go in chronological order:

Ran into problems with merging layers too quickly (and too long ago to recover), but I like how this one came out.

The sun as God's headlamp in the dark cave of space...

From a 600-point, stroked outline of the Times New Roman letter 'S', making the crop touch all four edges helped a great deal!

A one way mirrored translation:

I call the colorized version 'All Lined Up'... (couldn't help it -- as you said, without direct intent it took on a life of it's own, so to speak)

The way I set this up is, building block 1 makes 2 makes 3...

Here's my next set of three:

Next set:

My favorite for last:

My first attempt looked like this (what can I say, I worked hard, I want to upload) (:

From an old movie, Faust ('39?):

This is a Picture of mineral formations in Carlsbad Caverns, NM:

This is the largest flower in the world, the Corpse Flower:

Played around with these some more, but always based them on either dots or sections of letters (one is from Wingdings):

1. Mostly Negative:

2. About Equal:

3. Mostly Positive:

First Try

2nd

Another Way to Rotate the Same Greek Letter

2nd

The next three involve filters:

My favorite is the one in the middle...