This is my vector illustration of Tyra Banks' black and white photo. I took more of a cartoon style approach because I found it difficult to make the shading look authentic. The most difficult part of her face to animate was her lips and eyes because they were the most detailed. This was my first attempt at recreating a human face with Adobe Illustrator while using the many tools we discussed in class. It was most definitely a challenge, but I look forward to exercising my skills in the future with other assignments.
For my exquisite corpse project, I chose to recreate the buff/t-rex, soccer playing dog. This project was definitely challenging because I had to make my own personal artistic decisions based on the original drawing which was not done by me. It was very hard to keep aspects of the body parts symmetrical. Overall, I considered this to be a fun assignment. It gave me a chance to fool around with the pen tool.
I chose to create a fictional logo for a family winery. I researched many font styles and recreated this using the pen tool. I incorporated the two colors most frequently seen in a vineyard, a dark green, and a deep purple to correspond to the color of grapes when mashed and squeezed to create fine wine. I felt that the style of text I chose is both elegant and easy to read. When shrunken down to a smaller size to be placed on products, the logo is still legible. The grapevines around the initials of the company name I felt were appropriate graphics.
Here is my final logo:
The Alex and Ani logo seems perfect to me. It uses the right amount of space so that the logo may fit on their products if shrunken. The font is clear to read especially with the use of bold letters. However, the picture of the flower seems irrelevant to the products that they make which are jewelry.
The Chipotle logo is well done. The font is clear and easy to read. The logo gets right to the point and by looking at this image the viewer is made aware that this is a Mexican restaurant. The pepper also implies that the food is spicy. The colors are also relevant to the company/products. The color red is usually associated with heat which makes perfect sense in this case. The different shade of red in the middle of the circle is a nice contrast.
Blacksmith Tavern's logo may need a bit of work. I predict that when the font is minimized to put on products, it may become harder to read due to the type of font. However, the medieval text is perfect for the type of place it is. I would probably chose a different background to go with the logo to somehow allude to the fact that this place is a sports bar. I would also keep the fonts the same or keep the same size or font color to maintain consistency.
The Carrabba's logo is very plain yet well done. It is an Italian restaurant which is blatantly shown on the logo and they also demonstrated this using the Italian flag's colors. Another plus is that the font is easy to read even when shrunken down to place on plates, napkins, to go boxes, etc.
The Wendy's logo is one of the most poorly done logo's. Although it is a well known logo and very mainstream, the actual logo has way too much going on. There is too much text, using the mission statement "Quality is Our Recipe" along with "Old Fashioned Hamburgers" and the company name "Wendy's" is throwing a lot of information at the viewer. Also, I don't feel as though the colors blend well together. Red and yellow reminds me of McDonald's, however, with McDonald's it makes sense because of the golden arches. If I were to remake this image, I would use the portrait of Wendy and eliminate the mission statement and the old fashioned hamburgers
