Aidan Wallace Digital Media

 

 Dear future me,  Hello future me, what a wild thought this is, writing a letter to myself in twenty years. I have no idea where you are, what you're doing, or how anything has played out for you but man, I really hope life is sick. I hope you end up doing everything that you wanted to do and more. At our age right now, we have no idea what we want to do. We just stopped playing baseball and I'm currently writing this from Hiba's bedroom in Pittsburgh when we went for Valentine's Day this year. If you are married, I really hope it is to her. We are sitting here, only three months into our relationship, and this is the happiest I have ever been. I'm also wondering if you're still like me in any way. I wonder if twenty two year old me still lives inside of 42 year old me a little. I hope that we are working in baseball, maybe a coach, but hopefully some sick front office job that makes us a ton of money. I know that life hasn't always been easy for us but I ho...

 

       I chose these designs because I was trying to create a futuristic-looking tree and I ended with a colorful tree with a starburst-like appearance. I liked this logo because it looked unique and like no one else would do something similar. I also liked the names that I could create based on the logo and I came up with Starbloom. With that name and logo, I was able to create my vector logo. I wanted to do a starburst type of look like a star flying across the sky but I  couldn't quite figure it out. I settled on the stars gradually getting bigger across the page. 

 

  So far, I am really enjoying using Illustrator. I have never used it before and haven't had much success using other Adobe programs, so this is definitely a good change of pace. This assignment took me about 3 hours in total. The Homer was much easier than the Pikachu, in my opinion, because there weren't as many jagged lines or little intricacies. The paint bucket tool was hard to use at first as I didn’t connect my lines, so the whole picture of Homer became one color for the first 10 tries before I figured it out. I also experimented with shapes other than the ellipse on the Pikachu, like the triangle tool, and I can see how one can trace an entire shape using just shapes like you mentioned in class. I feel like I have a good grasp of this software as a whole, but there are many tools on the sidebar I’m hoping to learn how to use. I had to do the first Homer drawing a few times before I got comfortable with the way that the line tool worked. The shape tool was easy, and ...