Monday, October 10, 2011

Reflective Essay on Type

When I created my first collaboration of the A Butterfly I didn’t really think of a lot of scale. I was more into having everything symmetrical since I’m kind of OCD like that, but as I progressed and listen in the lectures I started to scale my letters really big as you can see in Stacked I’s and O Bubbles and they weren’t all fully visible in the picture. So to sum that up I’d have to say that as the pictures progressed the scale got more extreme. 

The O attracted me the most since it was such a simple shape. I could have made it anything, but I decided to keep it’s original shape in the form of a bubble in the picture O Bubbles. But like I said before I could have made it anything so I put a bunch of O’s together to create a bubble wand to imply that there were bubbles in the pictures and not just floating O’s. 

At first when I was working with layers in photoshop it was all new to me and I didn’t want to have to many layers or I was afraid I’d overwhelm myself, but I found it was much easier to duplicate layers so I didn’t have to create something totally new. This definitely helped with the A Butterfly when I wanted everything to be symmetrical so I didn’t have to scale everything exactly. It also helped in Neon Z’s when I wanted three sets of same sized letters.   

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