Student Statement:

For the portrait assignment, I choose to create a face of a young woman. I wanted this woman to have a rich, noble and loyal like appearance. I achieved that by choosing a very stylish font called "Parchment" in Photoshop. this gives the perception of a stylish bang and curly hair. I also made them big and having them to overlaps each other to shows volume. The letters i choose for the hair were "z" and "l". They were only used to satisfy the look and the perception of a rich and fancy person. The used of the letter "u" for the eyes gives a calm and relax looks on the woman's face, as if she was at peace. The "u" also looks like her eyes is closed which also represents her confident, that she's a confident young woman. Her lips also helps shows that she's is a confident person and that she's also in a relax stage. I mostly used brackets and the number 3 to define the lips. The "3" creates an outline and gives the perception that she's is wearing lipstick which ties in with her being rich and fancy. Last but not least, a pair of earrings was added to further emphasizes the fact that she's wealthy, young and higher class.

The name of this band is called Pelasgians. Pelasgians according to Wikipedia means the people that were ancestor the Greek. Since the band is a Greek word so I decided to have the band from a country like Greece. The picture I got was like a hilly landscape and so I thought of a type of country/classical music band. Influence by my title and album picture, I this is going to be a soft rock band playing smooth, moving, and full of melodies songs. It would be more directed at older teens to young adults. To fulfill the Greek aspect of it, I decide to use French Script MT as my choice of font because whenever I see or read a word that relates to Greek I think of a fancy cursive font such like French Script MT. The name of the album is The Big Choices in Life. To reflect on more of the old, classical, fancy aspect of the band, I went with Gothic as my fonts. Even though the Gothic fonts is Roman, I still feel that old an ancient civilization like element and it's been used in rock type album cover before like in AC/DC. I also used the Gothic fonts to creates a really fancy "P" in the back  ground. I decide to make the picture looks red purple-ish in some part, darken the other, and added a red "P" to bring out the rock aspect of the band. The red "P" are the most rock like aspect and I hoped for it to balance the overall picture form too much of a country-side kind of thing.  

LOGO:

To show that Young Company is fun, professional, and like a big family, I used the element and principles of design. I used line, shape, space, colour, emphasis, contrast, and balance. The line tells you the name “Young Company” and “Lakeshore C.I.”. The font that I used tells the audience that this is a modern, professional group. The big phoenix shape with “Young Company” inside tells people that they belong to the LCI family. The emphasis and contrast are directed at the name “Young Company” and the phoenix. This makes Young Company looks professional, like a family and fun.

I’m pretty satisfied with my results because I feel that this one best represent Young Company than all my other ones. If o had more time, I would finalized the texts “Young Company” and make it looks more symmetrical.

One of the difficulties I had was filling in the shape colour. The tail of the phoenix was by that problem but it turns out that I kind of like it. A technique I used was the text tools. I learn how to manipulate I to create text that curves or looks a certain way.

POSTER:

I chooses to go with a simple design of having a stole with light shining on it as the main image, the rest are just text and typographies. The element and principles of design I used were line, space, colour, contrast, emphasis, and movement. The lines are seen through typographies throughout the poster which tell the reader important information about the event. There’s a lot of negative space in the back ground because it’s mostly black. The few colours I used were black, white, and red. The red and the white brings out a contrast when place on top of a black backdrop. This also along with the fonts of the text creates emphasis and movements. Another example of movement in the poster is the dates at the bottom of the poster where it guide your eyes along to the here important dates. Its simplicity and great emphasis have given this poster a lot of liking and attractive to most audiences today.

I’m pretty satisfied with my final product because everyone seems to like it and I think I got the proportion close. The one thing that I would chance if I had more time is the spacing and centering of the numbers underneath “November”. They seem to be a bit off to the left and one side seem a little bit higher than the other.

One problem I had was the with the layer line. When I view all the necessary layers, there used to be a line between the “November” and the set of number. That line is the line caused by two different layers. I learned how to merged those two layers and add percentage of a colour (its opacity) to blur the line.  Also learned how to used variety of select tools, some harder but more accurate than other.