Some greeting cards:
Some interesting pictures:
Some realistic pictures:
Reference pictures for HIS bag:
Some poster:
Reference layout of my poster:
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Assignment 3 - My Research about Snow
Snow is a type of precipitation in the form of crystalline water ice, consisting of a multitude of snowflakes that fall from clouds.
The process of precipitation is called snowfall.Since snow is composed of small ice particles, it is a granular material.
It has an open and therefore soft structure, unless packed by external pressure. The METAR code for snow is SN.
In hydrology,
snowmelt is surface runoff produced from melting snow. It can also be used to describe the period or season during which such runoff is produced.
Predicting snowmelt runoff from a drainage basin may be a part of designing water control projects.
Rapid snowmelt can cause flooding. If the snowmelt is then frozen, very dangerous conditions and accidents can occur, introducing the need for salt to melt the ice.
Increased water runoff due to snowmelt was a cause of many famous floods. One of them was the Red River Flood of 1997, when the Red River of the North in the Red River Valley of the United States and Canada flooded. British Columbia is an area prone to snowmelt flooding as well.
Vegetation gives off heat, resulting in this circular snowmelt pattern.
Symmetry of an idealized snowflake
Snowflakes by Wilson Bentley, 1902
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Assignment 3 - My Steps to create poster
1. 1st layer - font background:
Type sentences, separate it from colour & copy to whole page
2. 2nd layer - rainbow background:
Draw a circle & fill it with rainbow gradient
Change the transparency to 60% to show the font background
( If I didn't remember wrong,
don't adjust to below 52%
because colour which is too transparent can't be seen through print out)
3. 3rd layer - blue background:
Draw another circle & fill it with gradient- white & blue
Change the transparency to 60% to show the font & rainbow background
4. 4th layer - snow background:
Draw small circle & fill with gradient
Choose the gradient type to "Radial" to make it look like sphere
Copy more & adjust their size
5. Copy the Santa Claus:
Copy the Santa Claus which is my assignment 2 into here
Adjust the Santa Claus's position
6. Create sledge:
Place my sketch into here as the template
Draw more line to show the brightness after draw the outline
7. Colour the sledge:
Use swatch library's colours to colour it
8. Draw the rope of Santa Claus's bag:
Use pen tool to draw it & group them
Copy one more, change the colour to lighter brown
Adjust the position to make it look like solid
9. Draw the rope of sledge:
Use the same method which be mentioned above
10. Create shining star:
Copy the snow which is mentioned above
Draw star by pen tool & colour it with gradient
Group them, copy more & adjust their size
Make some of them become transparent
11. Create statement:
Type out the statement
Go Windows-> Type to open the window of "Type"
Use it to adjust font size, horizontal scale, etc
Place the statement's layer under font background
Change some character's colour of font background to make the statement obvious
12. Change statement's style:
Select the statement's layer & Press "Ctrl + Shift + O" to create outline
(Make words become picture)
Go Effect-> Stylize-> Drop Shadow & Feather
Tick the "Preview" & adjust the options
13. Place symbol:
Go Window-> Swatches to open the window of "Swatches"
Copy the symbol which is my assignment 1
Select the symbol & press icon of New Symbol
Adjust the symbol's size & position
14. Place details:
Draw a circle & drag out "Type" tool box
Use the third one & type out details
Adjust the direction, font size, etc
15. Finish!
Type sentences, separate it from colour & copy to whole page
2. 2nd layer - rainbow background:
Draw a circle & fill it with rainbow gradient
Change the transparency to 60% to show the font background
( If I didn't remember wrong,
don't adjust to below 52%
because colour which is too transparent can't be seen through print out)
3. 3rd layer - blue background:
Draw another circle & fill it with gradient- white & blue
Change the transparency to 60% to show the font & rainbow background
4. 4th layer - snow background:
Draw small circle & fill with gradient
Choose the gradient type to "Radial" to make it look like sphere
Copy more & adjust their size
5. Copy the Santa Claus:
Copy the Santa Claus which is my assignment 2 into here
Adjust the Santa Claus's position
6. Create sledge:
Place my sketch into here as the template
Draw more line to show the brightness after draw the outline
7. Colour the sledge:
Use swatch library's colours to colour it
8. Draw the rope of Santa Claus's bag:
Use pen tool to draw it & group them
Copy one more, change the colour to lighter brown
Adjust the position to make it look like solid
9. Draw the rope of sledge:
Use the same method which be mentioned above
10. Create shining star:
Copy the snow which is mentioned above
Draw star by pen tool & colour it with gradient
Group them, copy more & adjust their size
Make some of them become transparent
11. Create statement:
Type out the statement
Go Windows-> Type to open the window of "Type"
Use it to adjust font size, horizontal scale, etc
Place the statement's layer under font background
Change some character's colour of font background to make the statement obvious
12. Change statement's style:
Select the statement's layer & Press "Ctrl + Shift + O" to create outline
(Make words become picture)
Go Effect-> Stylize-> Drop Shadow & Feather
Tick the "Preview" & adjust the options
13. Place symbol:
Go Window-> Swatches to open the window of "Swatches"
Copy the symbol which is my assignment 1
Select the symbol & press icon of New Symbol
Adjust the symbol's size & position
14. Place details:
Draw a circle & drag out "Type" tool box
Use the third one & type out details
Adjust the direction, font size, etc
15. Finish!
Assignment 3 - My Poster & Design Brief
Good designer will optimize the situation by finding the very best solution to a problem. Thus, we designed poster about global warming to bring alertness to people.
My area of choice is extinction which is one of the effects of global warming. Statement above shows that as global warming is getting serious, we should concern and take action to prevent extinction getting even worse in future.
I think that educating children to protect our earth is very important. Thus, I draw a cute Santa Claus to attract young generation.
There is a Santa Claus pulling his sledge without elk in the poster. It means that elk already become extinct because global warming’s effect so the Santa Claus have to pull sledge himself.
I use many red colour to finish this poster. Besides red can bring out the aura of Christmas, red indicate danger of extinct animal. Moreover, red corresponds to desire & thirst for action to protect animals. Furthermore, red can attract people on sight, after saw the red Santa Claus and sledge, people’s sight will move to the biggest size black word which is my statement.
On the other hand, the color of the background is soft to contrast with red colour. I also want use the soft feeling to bring out the happiness to have snow scenery. I believe that if human still don’t have awakening to stop global warming, we can’t saw the beautiful snow scenery in the future.
I copy many small size words as my poster background to attract people curious about what I want to say. After they observe carefully, they will found that “Santa Claus lost his elk”, I think that it is a interesting way to convey my meaning of the poster. Other than that, I change their colours as texture of my statement.
Hope my poster will give awareness to people to stop global warming.
My area of choice is extinction which is one of the effects of global warming. Statement above shows that as global warming is getting serious, we should concern and take action to prevent extinction getting even worse in future.
I think that educating children to protect our earth is very important. Thus, I draw a cute Santa Claus to attract young generation.
There is a Santa Claus pulling his sledge without elk in the poster. It means that elk already become extinct because global warming’s effect so the Santa Claus have to pull sledge himself.
I use many red colour to finish this poster. Besides red can bring out the aura of Christmas, red indicate danger of extinct animal. Moreover, red corresponds to desire & thirst for action to protect animals. Furthermore, red can attract people on sight, after saw the red Santa Claus and sledge, people’s sight will move to the biggest size black word which is my statement.
On the other hand, the color of the background is soft to contrast with red colour. I also want use the soft feeling to bring out the happiness to have snow scenery. I believe that if human still don’t have awakening to stop global warming, we can’t saw the beautiful snow scenery in the future.
I copy many small size words as my poster background to attract people curious about what I want to say. After they observe carefully, they will found that “Santa Claus lost his elk”, I think that it is a interesting way to convey my meaning of the poster. Other than that, I change their colours as texture of my statement.
Hope my poster will give awareness to people to stop global warming.
Monday, September 1, 2008
Assignment 3 - My Draft
My draft 1 :
Please stop Global Warming before we lose snow!
My draft 2:
Mum, can we stop Global Warming before we lose snow?
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Assignment 2 - My Reference Pictures, Sketch & Final Output
Before I decided to draw Santa Claus, I wanted to draw elk but an idea that Santa Claus pull his sledge himself after extinction of elk pop out from my brain.
I feel that this is an interesting idea so I laugh suddenly and my giggle on class frighten my friend, Sarah who sat beside me.
If global warming continue, extinction of many animals and plants will happen indeed. I believe that extinction of elk will also occur in the future if we continue destroying the nature environment.
I hope that my finishing poster which show christmas without elk will give attraction and awareness to people.
Therefore, I found many pictures of Santa Claus and sledge.
Below is some of my reference pictures.
My reference pictures:
My sketches: 
Because I wasted time on other matters and paid too much attention to those lines and colours, there is not enough time to let me draw the sledge. I forced to go print out the Santa Claus before finishing it.
My final output:
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