Green Vs. Orange

             Hello my good friends, Sophie the first is back with another blog and today we are going to be discussing colors. Now I have a lot of favorite colors but today I'm in a very green mood. No I don't mean I'm going to be sick or that I'm jealous of someone but i'm feeling calm and happy right now. Green reminds me of so many happy memories, unlike the color orange. So let's get right into the blog shall we?

      Green. I think of nature and happiness, renewal and calm. It reminds me of playing outside all the time when I was younger. Well I still go outside a lot. It's very relaxing and I like it. My family goes to Colorado every summer and the color green reminds me of the forest we hike through and the trees  surrounding us. It's a very particular green, almost like the green you get  after you walk into the forest after a rain and everything is glowing or like a dark green that's almost black but it's still a very vibrant green. Ahhhh yes I love nature. My siblings and I go outside and play sports in the backyards and I take my dogs on walks through the park. It's just very calming, I think of green and I hear birds chirping and I see a nice forest with a rushing waterfall. It'd great, unlike the color orange.

     Orange on the other hand is the very opposite of green. I feel like it's a very dull color that has no depth and yes it does remind me of fall but I'm more of a winter kinda gal anyways. The orange is out there but too much out there it's like boring, a weird boring, almost like a dull bring. ZZZzzzz sleeping ugh. I don't really have any bad memories of it but the color doesn't appeal to me, at all. The orange is the color for Fanta and orange and I'm not a fan of oranges.

   I hope that I didn't offend anyone with my options on green and orange. Have a wonderful day and goodbye my friends.
Sophie the First.

Sketching and Illustrator

        Bonjour my fellow friends, back again today with another blog. This week we got to sketch an item twenty different times. I chose flowers because I feel like they were my weak point out of the four choices we had. So I grabbed my sketch book and got to work. I don't really know the names of my flowers but I drew a lot and I think they looked pretty good. Well I mean my skills improved. It took me a couple days because I couldn't just sit back and work I have homework and play practice to do so it took me three days I think but I finished them and posted to our online classroom. I thought it was a good way to challenge myself with my drawings because I used shading and tried to make them look pretty without cool because I didn't have enough time to color twenty flowers. Overall this was really fun to do and I'm not one to pass up drawing.

     Our second project this week was to use Adobe Illustrator to create one of our twenty images. I choose to draw a rose, not just any rose, but the enchanted rose from Beauty and the Beast. I love Beauty and the Beast so much, it is also the musical I am in for my school. Anyways It took me an hour I think, and I found out how to shade and use my tools better. I really enjoy drawing either digital or on paper. I fort drew a really rough outline for my rose then colored it in slowly whilst shading. Then I drew the pink shading which was kinda a mistake cause I had to erase some and it looks a little sloppy, after that I drew the green stem and shaded that as well. Then I went back with the pink shading to create the magical glow. Lastly I made some little stars or sparkles. 

    I'm very proud of how my drawings turned out and I think my Adobe skills are greatly improving. I'm really digging the e-COMM program and I can't wait for what is going to come next. 

Till we speak again my friends,

Sophie the First. 

The Illustrator Experiance

             Good day my fellow bloggers, I am back with some more knowledge on graphic design. Recently we have been working on Adobe Illustrator and learning the basics, we've done a few projects so below I will talk about the stuff we've done.

             For my first project we got to use Adobe for the first time and it was pretty cool. I think drawing on the computer is a little challenging but I will get better. We learned how to use the basic shapes like the star tool and the rectangle tool. They come in handy a lot and its way to use the tools then try and draw the perfect shape. We also use the lecturer tool a lot, like a lot. For me changing the brushes and making sure it's on fill or stroke is hard because I want to keep going but I have to change everything first, it's a challenge, a fun challenge. We made the shapes had to put them in spots, we also changed the size and shape of the shapes so we had to fix them red or fill them blue. I really like graphic design; it's drawing the whole time. The first project was pretty easy, just using shapes but the second one was a little more difficult.

          The second project we did was a project of our own imagination. We had to use the skills we already knew like how to make perfect shapes and use the selection tool to make something. I made a snowman since the Holiday season is coming up. I had fun making it and I always enjoy drawing on anything really. I fist used polygons for the body but thought it looked weird that I had polygons instead of circles so I used to ellipse tool to create some perfect circles. After I had stacked three white circles on top of each other I used the rectangle tool to create the two rectangles one indigo and one black to create the hat and then used the ellipse tool to create a very wide but skinny black oval for the bottom part of the hat. Then I used the ellipse tool to create 8 very small, black circles for the eyes, mouth, and buttons. After that I used the start tool to create the snowman’s orange nose. I had to make a star—which is just dragging and holding the mouse—then use the up and downs arrows to add or subtract points, if all the points are subtracted it gives you a triangle, then I changed the size so it would be a small nose. Next I used the rectangle tool again to make two skinny, tall brown rectangles that I used for my snowman’s arms. Lastly I used the star tool to create small white snowflakes; I also just drew some white dots too, to make some variety.

We also Used the shaper tool to create an eye type thing. It was a little difficult to figure out how to crave a chance out of the circle but I still like doing all this stuff. We had to create a giant red circle then a smaller circle to put on top

     

     Overall these projects were very fun to do. I like Adobe Illustrator and when we do the projects it’s just drawing the entire hour and it’s so fun to do. I enjoy learning the new material and hopefully by the end my digital drawing skills get better because right now they aren’t the best but they will get better over time. I’m excited to learn new things and this quarter will be pretty interesting.

 

Au Revoir moi aimes,

Sophie the First