Wednesday, 17 September 2014

My Inside Identity

        This is my 'Inside Identity' and it is meant to represent me. I named my piece this because everyone has an inside thought or person. This describes mine. These are thoughts that I have when I'm sitting alone, am depressed, or even happy, and each sentence is true with a meaning behind it. I put in some funny sentences because that also describes me. I absolutely love joking around.

        To make my actual piece I used the watercolours to make a textured look through the brushstrokes. This just really appealed to me. I really liked how my design idea turned out. I wanted purple (my favourite colour) and red (my second favourite) to be incorporated in my piece so I decided to mix the two. Doing that, I created a deep colour that I loved and I chose to do the ombre look with it. I chose the ombre look because it had the dark shades and light shades. The dark part on the outside represents my mind. It's crazy and busy, tied up thinking about what I wish would happen, or what I know I have to make happen. Its all over the place and all crowded, just like the deep mix takes up the outer area and the strokes crowd it. It gets lighter leading to the fingerprint. This, I believe, shows that inside I am happy with who I am. I am not dark and pushy, I am really a light, sweeter person who doesn't like it when things go wrong or when I upset someone. I think it shows through, in the way that my words do. I am pleased with my whole piece, but mostly with the font. I struggled to make my font design perfect since I had to make it so small, but it turned out great in my opinion.
         I hope you like my piece as much as I do!

Friday, 5 September 2014

Typographic Identity

        This is my Typographic Identity. Everything that is in or apart of this artwork means something to me, and I'm here to explain it to you.. The words all have a meaning that connects to who I am. Some words have to do with my personality, and others have to do with me and my family. Some have to do with school and others also have to do with things I just prefer to do as habits. But every word has a reason to be there, and it's because they are things I am passionate about. Even the shape, font and colours mean something to me: The font is curvy and that is something that appeals to me. I dont like fonts that are 'blocky' or 'straight' all the time. It all looks the same to me, and doesn't have a lot of character. I feel like the font I chose does have a lot of character, because the curves change it up constantly. The shape of my artwork looks like a Speech bubble. This is because I seem to talk A LOT. Somewhere in the words you will find "Annoying". This tends to be why! And lastly the colours I chose are bright and dark. This is because sometimes I like to be outgoing, and out there in the world, just like the bright and bold colours.. But other times,I just want to blend in with everyone else because secretly, I am very shy. This is just like how the dark colours blend in with the background..
         Anyways, this is my artwork and my blog post for today, so goodbye for now!