Printing Processes

Relief Process

This process does not require a press, it just needs a baren. You take a thin piece of paper, put it on a block with the design you want, rub the baren on it, and the design is transfered. You might need this skill if you can't afford a printing press, or you want a good arm workout.

1.  Get a pattern block.
2.  Get thin paper & a baren.
3.  Cover the design block with ink.
4.  Place paper over block.
5.  Rub baren over paper. Make sure you thoroughly go over every spot.
6.  Lift up paper.

 Intaglio Process

This process has a design under what you're going to put it onto. You might want to use this if you want a deeper cut.

1. Take a steel scribe or any similar tool.
2. Use it to make lines on the surface you're putting your design on.
3. Continue until you've finished your pattern.

Lithography

Lithography involves putting a design on a stone, putting grease on it, wiping off the grease, and putting it on paper. This is useful for people who like stones.

1. Make your design with grease pencils on the stone.
2. Apply printing ink to the stone.
3. Apply gum arabic.
4. Apply acidified gum arabic.
5. Apply another coat of gum arabic.
6. Buff the gum arabic in.
7. Wash it with lithotine
8. Go over the stone with both a wet and dry towel.
9. Put the paper on the stone and transfer. It might take multiple prints.

Pop Art

Here under protest, ANOTHER blog post. For this assignment, we had to take pictures of a partner. Being in a group of 3, I opted out of having pictures taken of me. Nobody really inspired me that much, since most pop art artists from what I understand were morons who think modern art is actually good. Think Judy Funnie from Doug. I chose cool colors because I like those colors. The colors of the shapes in the background were chosen because they look nice together. I used the filter gallery on the subject.

Photoshop Challenge

In Graphic Design we had to photoshop a picture of a man somewhere. I thought "Hey, where's the most remote place he can be?", so I put him in the desert. Originally it was just the original photo in the desert with a camel. However,  that felt too bland, so I added a turban and recolored the jacket. In retrospect the color scheme might be a little weird looking. I used masks to remove the white background and to recolor. The drop shadows are either adjustment layers or mask-related stuff. I thought it turned out pretty good. If I had to redo it I'd add one more thing and recolor the clothes.

Photoshop Basic Photo Editing

In graphic design I learned how to use tools in Photoshop. Some of them I already knew how to use.

For example, I already knew how to use the Content Aware tool, shown here.

 Using the patch tool wasn't very hard either, since it's so similar to the Content Aware tool.

The clone tool does not work like the tool in Paint.net, and is unnecessarily complex, so this one was a bit harder.

Much of the same here.

This is getting redundant, isn't it?

This one had a lot more steps, but I think I did ok on it.

Next post is probably going to be more of the same, so you're probably not gonna miss much.

Logo

In E-Comm I worked on creating a logo for myself. The creation process took a few days, though if I didn't have to go to other classes I probably could of done it in one day. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is debatable. I sketched it, then made a mock up in black and white, then I made a couple variations in different colors. Finally, when I decided on a color scheme I scaled that up. Here are some images of the process.

Black and white mockup

Different colors

Finished product

Design wise, I tried to make a logo similar to an old Hanna-Barbera logo from 1958.

Color wise, I tried to chose colors that went together. I'm not sure why I chose that font.

Oz Poster

In graphic design I redesigned a poster that the school used a few years back to use the CARP principles.

Contrast

I used contrast when designing the logo, making it the largest and most notable object on the poster. I also used 3 main colors that contrasted well for everything.

Alignment

I used alignment a lot. I tried to make stuff line up, and I think I did a good job.

Repetition

I used repetition with fonts and colors. I used a lot of yellow at the bottom, and used many of the same fonts there too.

Proximity

I used proximity in many places. At the bottom I tried to group together many things that I thought went together, and I think I did a good job here as well.

Name thing

Overview

This was ok. I guess learning about the different parts of text was interesting. 

What I learned

I learned a lot about what the parts of text are called.

What I would change

Considering it's just copying off another paper and change it to apply to you, there wasn't really much to change.

Logo Color Scheme

Analogous

This logo uses the analogous colors of orange, green, blue and yellow. I think they chose these colors because orange represents creativity, and Windows can help you create incredible things, green because it represents growth, and Windows can help you achieve that.

This logo uses the analogous colors of orange, red and green. I think they chose these colors because orange & red are bright colors, and tend to catch attention, which is what you want for a gas station.

Complementary

This logo uses the complementary colors of purple and yellow. I think they chose these colors because purple is commonly associated with royalty, and the fairies in this show have crowns. Yellow is also associated with happiness, which is what the fairies strive to cause.

This logo uses the complementary colors of orange and blue. I think they chose these colors because orange is the color used by the main Nickelodeon channel, and blue because it can mean friendliness.

Warm

This logo uses the warm colors of red and beige. I think they chose these colors because red is energetic, which is an accurate way to describe the show. I think they chose beige to balance out the intenseness of red.

This logo uses the warm colors of orange and yellow. I think they chose these colors because orange means fun, and they want you to have fun with their games. I think they chose yellow to make it look more like a sun.

Cool

This logo uses the cool colors of blue and teal.

I think they chose these colors because the ocean is blue, and SpongeBob takes place underwater.

This logo uses the cool colors of blue and dark blue. I think they chose these colors to make it look like ice.

Monochrome

This logo uses shades of grey. I think they chose this color to make it look futuristic.

This logo uses shades of brown. I think they chose this color to make it look like rock.

Triad

This logo uses blue, red and yellow. I think they chose these colors to attract attention, as these colors do just that. I also think they chose yellow and red because buns are yellow, and hamburgers are brown, which looks kinda like red.

This logo uses orange, yellow and blue. I think they chose these colors to attract attention, as these colors do that too. I also think they chose it to make it look sunny.

color wheel thing

What was the project?

It was a project in Adobe Illustrator.  We had to make a color wheel. We also had to add the other colors nobody really talks about.

What did I learn?

I didn't really learn much. I already knew how to use Photoshop, and the interface to Illustrator is really similar to that. I did learn about this cool thing where you can make an object move only on an axis thing, which is really handy for getting a triangle in the best spot.

What would I change?

I wouldn't change much. Maybe I would find a better term that Red Purple, if such a term exists, but probably not.