Graphic Design Blog Assignment: Week #4 (due Friday, Sept. 23rd)

Designed by Phil
http://designedbyphil.com/selected_work.htm


      This piece had a lot of contrast between the white and the black. The extremely thick white lines in some of the pictures seems to even out the piece almost. I think the composition was done really well. It doesn't seem like there are any areas that seem to boring or awkward. I mean there is not much texture to the piece as in shadows and highlights to make it look 3-D but I still think it looks great. By emphasizing on certain letters it really brings thins out. Such as the butterfly and the spider, you know they are there due to how think the lines are that were used to create it. Also with the little to no emphasis on the leaves and how you barely notice them but you do. The use of line is great in this piece. It seems like the while piece is just lines. Over all i like the piece.

Graphic Design Blog Assignment: Week #3

     Well here is my piece. In all actuality for some some this project might have been easy but for me I still had trouble with the pen tool. I know for a fact I still don't know how to use it. This piece took me forever to do, their was just so many layers. There was at least eight hundred. I chose the colors just because I enjoy yellows and green. I if i could have i would have done the rainbow but I couldn't so I chose those. i want the piece to be viewed as something someone should want to do. Like they would have a lot of fun if they were to play on this machine. This would probably be just a poster, a decoration. It would look really good in a casino were people play on the slots all the time.

Graphic Design Blog Assignment: Week #2 (Due Friday, Sept. 9th)

Pride by Ezequiel Matteo


         This piece most definitely describes me as an artist. The color for one, emphasizes the color in my life and in most if not all my pieces of art work. My life and everything in it almost always revolves around color. the color is so bright and powerful and it's just there, like me. what I'm trying to say is that just like the colors and this piece, I am bright and bubbly. Also I like how everything just flows like me I guess. for the most part I just go with the flow and nothing really bothers me..... most things don't bother me. But yeah, I think this piece really shows me as a person, that the color isn't just the main point but everything else comes together to make a great piece. Like me!

Graphic Design Blog Assignment: Week #1

            I think this piece has a lot of colors, scene with the monsters, the shoe, and the world. some other elements that I see is a lot of line and shape. not much value with the colors. there is a lot of movement in the piece, with the little things flying around the earth and the ooze moving across, also with the little monsters in the shoe.


            I think the composition of the piece is unique. usually with people would put the piece right in the center and I think that with putting the piece on the side it adds something to it. it's cool how it looks like the earth is made out of the shoelaces from the shoe. what I also like is how everything is put in one area and your eyes go immediately. It just looks like an overall good piece. If I were to change anything, I might add more color but that's just me. I might also use up more space as well.



            I think the meaning of this piece is that the world pretty much revolves around shoes. not in an obsessive way but more in a way that we really can't live without shoes in a modern society. I think it's working but who knows, not everyone thinks the same way as me. it kind of makes me feel like I need to go out and buy a new pair of shoes.