little letters and some extras

 To finish off last weeks assignment here are the lowercase letters, numbers and a few special characters. I think it turned out OK but what I found is that there are a lot of little things that you have to be mindful of and that what you put into the font creator isn't necessarily what you get out. Creating fonts will be fun and useful in the future, especially now that I am aware of some of those little things.

BIG LETTERS

Another exciting  assignment for me. I've always wanted to know how to design and create my own fonts. I have to admit this was not the style I had planned out for myself but due to the learning curve I think it turned out pretty well. First you have to set up each letters design in Illustrator and then using Font Creator (one of many programs out there) it creates your letters and sets them up into a "True Type" file so you can down load them to use in any document. Voila! a font set.

It's All In the Eyes

I loved this assignment and have been hoping/waiting for this to come along. We had to create a piece of art only using a drawing tablet (and it's pen). We had complete control over what we did and we could use either Illustrator or Photoshop. I chose Photoshop and my girl, Caley's eyes. I love to draw eyes.

I found it pretty easy to layer light layers of opacity's of color on top of each other to build and blend the effects that I wanted. I will definitely use this again and again. And, it was a good introduction to using the pen/tablet that I've owned for 2+ years... feels good.

Retro Vinyl with a Modern Twist

There is nothing like livening up something from the past. We had to make a vinyl sticker using, of course vinyl sheets and a machine called a Roland CutStudio. Below you will see the art work I did... I love it! It's going to be placed on a toy box that was built for my husband Eric and his brother Jeff when they were very young and now has been passed down to our son Jack. This toy box was hand made and was covered with hand cut vinyl decals which are mostly worn away. I thought it appropriate to rename it for Jack and I will post pictures after I turn it in to be graded.

It was a fun assignment, well, it was after I figured out what I was going to do and where I was going to put it. The small pieces and lines were a little tricky to pull out of the vinyl but when I used the printer with the newer or less used blade everything came out great.

As Promised...

  As you can see this toy box has seen a lot of fun. Here is the final resting place of the vinyl sticker. Front and center of the toy box, exactly where Jack picked out, ready for another 39 years of fun.

                   

Anyone Up For A Card Game

These designs are for a card game being designed by our school called "The Wall", designed by our instructor, Brian Martin. I was to design a wall card, damage card, reconstruction card and the back of the card. I used illustrator to design these and could only use vector art which means everything you see is a solid color. I couldn't use any special effects.

I think they all turned out well. I like the colors of the bricks and there is good continuity in the design. It will be interesting to see what they are look like when they are printed. I will post a pic when I get them back.

A Beautiful Rainy Day

This assignment we used art brushes in Photoshop to make a photo, Taking that photo we opened it up into Flash and animated the brushes. I think it turned out pretty good. The rain drops I unmasked using curly-q designs made it a little more to look at, The grass was a little more difficult as you had to paint each blade to unmask and the flowers turned out how I thought they should. Easy concept to follow and I can see using it on future projects.

Me and My Art

My name is Christina Olson, I'm a design student at Pierce College in the Digital Design Program.

Be sure to check out my new artwork. I will post my assignments here and show the world my skills.

I am a Wife and Mom of 3 great kids. We love the outdoors, gardening and art.

I have been  an artist since I was a freshman in high school. I love drawing and painting. I have also attended the Art Institute of Seattle and have a degree in Interior Design. I look forward to what I will learn in this program and what the future holds.

Expressionism- Photoshop