The 4 colors I choose for my logo project would be topaz (orange), red, yellow, and turquoise. Topaz represents my birthstone, red represents braveness, yellow represents bright and outgoing, and turquoise represents hard working. The typography I used to put my name around the logo is named Algerian, in a way it had a western style to it on how bulk it was. I used rectangles and triangles mostly to make the shape of the head of a bull. The colors andthe image reflects the traits of my personality because a bull in general represents how brave and strong you are, so does the color red. I’ve grown up around cattle my whole life, so for a bull, being strong is one of their biggest traits. The color yellow could be shown as sometimes cattle want to play around sometimes and turquoise represents how much work they can do to help a human being when trying to get things done. Cattle represent me in a way like I just explained, they can be outgoing, hard working and strong.

The first step of completing my logo was to first draw it out. I made two drawings to see which one I would like better. I made one that had more detail, and one that was simple shapes and not so much of the detail. I then had to choose between the two that I liked better and as you can probably guess, I picked the more detailed one. The next step was to draw five rough drafts of where I wanted my name to go or I wanted to use a square, circle, or just leave the background blank behind my logo to make it stand out more. The rough drawing that I picked out of the five was the head of a bull inside a colored circle so the bull would be on top of it. Then have my first name going under the base of the circle at the bottom. I then made the drawing into a PDF and worked on the logo in Illustrator. In Illustrator I made the lines more bulk to where you could see instead of the lines being crooked and not straight, I also colored in some of the bull black so there wouldn’t be any blank spots where it’s colored in. I then used the gradient tool to switch up the colors to the colors that I chose out. After I finished the project, putting my name around it, filling in more color, I made the PDF file into a PNG file to upload to my website.

The message of my infographic is to stop doing drugs. It explains how taking drugs can affect you and the others around you, especially children. This affects children when growing up because they start to think it is okay, or it can get them hurt with your actions. It can lead to physical, mental, and emotional abuse. It also talks about how people prioritize drugs over the things that actually matter to you in life and how it can affect you in many ways from working, to losing family, to losing yourself.

My design supports the message by saying there are many types of drugs that you can take and how different they are from each other including side effects. The color red I used means that it is dangerous and you should not do it. Some of the images I used are to represent death, show what it could lead to, or generally telling you to get help before it leads to high consequences. The data and graph shows the information I have researched on overdoses and reports of child abuse from drugs taking place. I used bold fonts to catch the attention of the audience and for the body text I made the font white so it could be easier for people to read. The design targets the audience by telling you that you should not take drugs for your own benefit, it can hurt you and others and affect your life and if you have done drugs you should try to get help.

How I created unity was to use the images, data graphs, colors, and text to show it all comes together and shows how much of a problem it is across the US and maybe other countries. I used emphasis by catching audience attention by making things stand out like the images and making the text big and bold so that it would be the first thing that you read is the bold text.

The extra things I used for my infographic was to do more research to add on so there's more to read and more information to give. I also used more images to use more of the space so it didn’t look like there would be blank spots. I did not make any of the images in photoshop or illustrator. I found some images on Piktochart under graphics. The images I found only showed images that were not copyrighted. I was going to use some images from Pixabay, but whenever I would try to download some of the images, they would not show that I downloaded them.

My first chart is a pie chart and shows the reports of children being abused, proven reports of children being abused, and no reports of child abuse. The percentages are 30.21%, 19.88%, 49.9% in order. So this graphic shows that more kids were found that no reports of child abuse were taken in place. The second graph is a horizontal bar that shows the number of the top 10 places in the US for drug overdose deaths. Out of those 10 states Virginia was number 1. The map shows where the states are.

The goal of this project was just to make a little neighborhood with people moving around and going in or out of houses. The goal of this project was to be simple but not too simple. My goal in particular was to use music in the project and to make a scene that you could imagine in your head how the song goes along with it. It shows what kind of day it is in instead of a poor rainy day, it’s all sunny and warm where people are all out and about like they have no worries in the world and are having a great time. I will have to say I learned a lot in this project even though this project is the most I have struggled on.

The mood of this project that I would describe would have a happy vibe and goes with the video. The song I used, the title is named Great Day to be Alive by Niko Moon. The mood to this song has a good beat to it. The song is possibly I song you would sing along with and most likely turn all the way up in your while you driving somewhere. I think this song's lyrics go along with this song quite well. The song is talking about how that person is having a really good day and wishes that every day could be like that specific day.

The background represents a little neighborhood about maybe mid day. The sky is bright blue, the grass is really green, and the sun is out. I used squares and circles to make the houses, people, the sun and car. I used the selection tool to select the shapes and cut the shapes and got rid of what I didn't need and then added more shapes to that first shape. I mostly used the circles for the people and used lines to make their body. I was going to make actual people to where you could see their features, but I had some trouble with grouping the whole shapes and decided to do something that wouldn’t take long to replace. I mostly used squares for the background which was to make the buildings. I then copied the background and kept adding it a couple times so when the song played after using motion tween or classic tween, the whole background moves so it’s like you are walking or even driving and you can see all the people moving around and looking at all the bright colors. I did the classic tween and motion tween a lot. I mostly used motion tween for the people and the sun, and used classic tween for the background and car that is driving by.

I really struggled with tweening since at first I felt like I was doing something right but then I would accident;y click in the middle of it then it would disappear, or it would look like it would glitch. Also when I would start the music part of the shapes would stay there while everything else would move. I struggled with grouping things together like the background and the houses. Another thing would be when I would edit message shapes by using the selection tool, it would click the background and would fully move it and mess up the classic tweening then I would have to redo it all over again and again. Lastly I really did get frustrated with the motion tweening when something would go wrong thenI would have to backtrack a couple steps, redo it, then test it to see if I did right the next time. What I have just explained happened many many times during this project but I feel like I did an okay job with what I have accomplished in this project.

In my after effects project, it shows how it has a never ending scene driving in a desert. I ended up getting exactly what I wanted in the project, the only thing that could make this project possibly better, was to have more objects in the scene. The things I ended up accomplishing were to make a forever ending background and a mustang that actually is moving smoothly across the road. My original plan was to make a never ending scene but also have objects pop out of the ground in the background so it wasn’t very bland. After seeing how difficult After Effects could be and watching a lot of tutorials on how I could try to make a never ending scene and have objects popping out of the background at the same time, I knew I wouldn’t be able to keep going back and forth between two tutorials and piece them two together without going back to the tutorials multiple times and doing the project without problems happening in the program which unfortunately I ran into it crashing a couple of times. I also wanted to make more than just one car but how long it took me just to make one, I would’ve ran out of time to make more than just one.

The first skill that I have learned to do in after effects was to make an assets folder to find what you need easier. Next, was to add and import files from other adobe programs. After that, I needed to learn how to make compositions to make my scene. I watched some tutorials from our class demo to remember how to. Then, the next step was to find a background and turn that into a loop scene. This took me a couple tries to find a video that explains the steps very well. I needed the background to run smoothly for this project to work. All I needed to do was to stretch the background out and put a couple timelines to make the background move at a certain pace. I needed a start time, end time, and then needed a time between the two to show how fast or slow it needed to be. If it's closer to the start, it will go slower, if it's closer to the end time, it will go faster. After the background, I needed to make the car so that means I had to make the car on a separate program so I used adobe illustrator. After I finished this, I imported the file to my background and looped the car so the car is moving along with the background.

At first doing the process of making everything step by step was really confusing since this is the first time I've used this program. I would have to keep rewatching or go back to the videos to see where they did this or that step. Trying to make a loop scene was frustrating with the background since it would want to lag or crash but I managed to get through it. When I would mess up on a certain thing I would try to undo my mistake but instead it would get rid of my compositions or steps that I really needed. Also, some of the files wouldn’t want to load or show up so it also took me a while to find a file that would show up in after effects. What I found successful was making the car go across the road. This was close to the end of the project. It was fun making illustrations. I really liked the way it turned out. What I could improve on was definitely the background so it could’ve been going a little faster and not stopping which you can tell in the project unlike the car, it was running very smooth. I wouldn’t say it was very hard to learn the after effects. There were just a lot of steps and trying to find which button is what as in which one for is opacity, what's for timeline and so forth.

Our project in art this week, we did our own Independent project. I decided to make my independent project in Adobe photoshop because it was one of my two favorites to win for Adobe since I could actually draw things out free handed. What I wanted to do with my project was to find a painting or photograph and draw it out myself. I ended up using a photograph of a sunset looking down on the mountains or a valley. The changes I made during the project were to either blend, fix mistakes, or find another way to make an object look better.

For this project I really wanted to freely draw it without trying to make the shapes and mostly used the brush. I also used opacity in making the colors blend. To make the drawing easier. For at least the mountains, I used Adobe Illustrator. I used both the pen tools to trace out the mountains then I would copy into photoshop. I learned these skills during my school as we processed what we’ve learned my senior year in class, knowing photoshop was one of our first projects to do. So with this note, some of the skills that I did learn, I spaced out or forgotten and would struggle with at times. I demonstrated these skills by using what I learned during the school year and used it in my painting like I did with my first project in photoshop.

My strengths of this project is how much time and effort I tried to put into the painting, and how quick everything came together. Another strength would be how I tried to paint a photograph with mostly just a brush tool. I just wanted to have fun with this one since this year is coming to an end and would be one of my last big projects. I tried to make the painting as similar as I could to the photograph that I used as a reference. My weaknesses with the project was that I feel like the picture wasn’t realistic enough. I felt like I was struggling to blend all the colors. It had a lot of oranges and red and pinks, but sometimes there would be whole other dark colors as well that were hard to blend in. What I thought was successful in the painting were the mountains and the sky where it's closer to the mountains where you can see the clouds blending in with the background and not standing out as much. I think I could improve my skills by taking more time to look over the painting as I felt a little rushed having less time with this project, and also trying to use different tools and take time to learn them so I could use it in future paintings and get better. The most difficult thing in the project was remembering what tools are what and remembering which layers you need to paint on so if you make a mistake you can easily fix that before continuing on like I did.

I would’ve liked to add and give credit to the photographer who made this photograph, I did some research but only to find that most of the websites are blocked on the computer I’m using, or when researching the image and finding websites that weren’t blocked, it wasn’t the best reliable website. I do not have many electronics so unfortunately I did not get to do additional work outside of school or the projects I’ve worked on out of class.