Monday, September 21, 2015

Personal Logo

For my logo I wanted to express who I was.  A big part of my life is soccer.  Then I figured out that soccer should defiantly be in my logo one way or another.  At first I was just going to color a soccer ball with different colors. Then I thought that would be to simple and I need to try to challenge myself.

I went on google to get the soccer ball just in black and white. Then I screenshot the ball and pasted it into Illustrator.  I thought the ball needed some color but not a lot. I used the live paint tool in Illustrator to get color.  The colors I used were yellow, white, back, orange, and of course red. I used red, yellow, and orange for the flames coming out of my soccer ball. I used the white tool to make some of the black lines that I didn't like in my soccer ball to disappear and it worked.

After I did the soccer ball I felt that it needed a border on the outside. Then I put a circle around the soccer ball. I didn't like that. I tried something new and put an oval around the ball. That looked okay but I felt like needed something more.

I then added a name. I had to go downloaded a free font that I liked off the internet and put it into Illustrator.  The name came to me.  Ashlee's soccer club. It just fit.

Then my teacher had an idea to have cleats to be in my logo. I really liked the idea so I put the soccer ball and my logo name inside of the cleat. My favorite color is purple. I thought that the laces should be purple.  Inside of my cleat there was this really weird almost like a unicorn head. I hated how it looked. I then just put a box over it and filled it in.  Finally all that was left was to was to center my logo. BAM! Finished! It looks great!





Friday, September 11, 2015

Pentagram

A couple days I went on this site where it told me what my font was. It asked me four questions.

Are you emotional, or rational?
Are you understated, or assertive?
Are you traditional, or progressive?
Are you relaxed, or disciplined?

My answers were: Emotional, understated, progressive, and finally disciplined.

Finally the guy put all my answers together and gave me a font was New Alphabet.

I used New Alphabet and went onto illustrator and typed in my first and last name using this font. Then I learned how to make my font bigger. I also centered my font.  Then on each of the letters needed I did "anatomy of a font".  It was fun for me to learn how to label letters.