Typographic Portrait

For this assignment, we were asked to write our name using a font style that would suit the description given. I had a lot of fun doing this one.

Inspirations

For this activity we were asked to unload to our blog, five things that inspire us.

My sister Shannon

Shannon and I have always been very close. Many a day in our childhood was spent making clothes for our toys or drawing together. It's nice to have someone to bounce ideas off and she is always able to point me in the right direction creatively and help me when I'm lacking confidence in my work.

Gaudi

Gaudi is by far my favourite architect. His buildings are like they are from another world or a dream. He has always been an inspiration of mine and I have previously taken elements from his work to use in my designs.

The Sky

The sky is one of the most beautiful natural canvases we have. I remember many summer days, as I'm sure many people can, laying on the grass staring up at the sky finding pictures in the cloud formations. Now I mainly enjoy watching the beautiful sunsets form my deck with glass of wine in hand marveling at the incredible colour palate nature has provided.

Fabric

Fabric is one of my favourite things in the world. I love nothing better then browsing fabric stores and looking at all the colours and patterns, running my hands over them and envisioning what I would make out of it.

This Sketch

For some reason I have been fascinated with this sketch ever since I saw in in an art magazine many years ago. It's just a simple charcoal sketch by Japanese makeup artist Shu Uemura, but  has inspired my to try my hand at charcoal drawing.

Prepress Research

For this activity, we were asked to watch a video and answer questions, research two printing methods for a magazine, make a word search using provided prepress terms, collect six examples using printing processes and make a glossary of prepress terms.
This one took me forever...https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByN7lShSXn_sYUpycXk0ZHBaRVk/edit?usp=sharing

How to use a scanner

For this exercise, we were asked to create a word based document including a range of images scanned using line art and greyscale with different dpi settings. We also had to include an evaluation on the quality and file size.

Conclusion: I found the line art or black and white setting on my canon MG6200 scanner to be great when used on a higher dpi for black and white images. The file size is not particularly large either. The serviette drawing came out really well and i was surprised the file size was so low for a 1200 dpi scan. The greyscale image doesn’t have very good definition for the 75 dpi scan (my scanners lowest resolution). The file size difference between the 300dpi and 1200 dpi was huge; however at such a small image size there doesn’t seem to be that much difference in quality.

Use a scanner to tell a story

As part of my Graphic Pre-press course we were asked to tell a story about ourselves using 9 objects and a scanner.

This is my story...

My scanner story includes elements from the past, present and what I hope to achieve in the future.

I have always been involved in something creative, I started out studying fashion design. The image is my first attempt at creating a fashion sketch using a computer program called fashion toolbox.

Photography has always been a passion and a hobby of mine, as well as jewelry making. I made the earrings and the camera picture represents my beautiful vintage camera (the real thing was too bulky to scan). 

I currently work at an awesome ale house called the Winston which specialises in boutique beer. Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is a particular favourite of mine.

watercolour painting is something I'm a bit terrible at for now, however I'm sure with plenty more practice, I will improve!