Typography Project Reflection

1) What is the strongest part (visual area) of your finished art piece? Why?

     The strongest part of my finished piece is either the grass or the leaves on the tree. Those are the only parts of my art piece that show what letter I used for the project. I also really like how they came out. To me it looks interesting how it is easy to see all of the individual letters, but they still blend into a cohesive image.

2)  What part (visual area) of your art piece can be improved on?  How can it be improved on?

I think that the cloud in the upper left hand corner of the image could be improved upon. It was a very last minute decision to include it just to fill up some space, but I think it actually made the space a little less interesting. Maybe it would look better if I used multiple shades of white for shading, but since I didn't do that it looks bland. This is also a problem with the tree. I would have liked to have added some shading or texture to the tree, but I never really got around to it.

3) What Tools did you use to create your work?  How did you use these tools? Explain.

The main tools I used to create this image was the text tool, the move tool, and the gradient tool. First I laid down a gradient for the background that looked like dirt and the sky. From there I used the text tool to place and bend the letters into the position I wanted them to be in. Then I used the move tool to place them where I wanted them on the canvas. Some parts of the image, like the leaves and grass, are very clearly layers of V's, but others,like the tree and the cloud, are just a number of V's layered on top of each other to give the illusion of a solid piece.

4)   What was easy about this art activity? Explain.

Coming up with the composition of the image was probably the easiest part. I figured that a lot of people would go with a more random concept, so I tried to do something different by using letters to create a landscape. 

5)    What was difficult about this art activity? Explain.

I found that it was very difficult to arrange the letters the way I wanted to. It was especially difficult because bending text is based around the size of the text box, so I also needed to play around with the text box sizes to get the arrangement I wanted.

6)  Describe how you demonstrated each of the objectives (goals) of this art activity?

I'm not sure if I created an image with a good composition, but it certainly has an interesting composition. I tried to align things so that nothing was right in the center of the image, and make use of all the space on the page, but I think that the cloud in the upper left corner makes that side of the page less interesting. However I did use basic photoshop tools and keyboard shortcuts to help create my design.

7)    If you could do this assignment again, what would you do differently?

I think if I were to do this project all over again I would go with a different layout entirely just to see if it would have a better composition. However if I were to just change things on the design I already have I would put more color into the tree and cloud.

8)  On a scale of 1-10 (10 being the best), how would you rate your effort in this project? Why?

I think I would rate my effort in this project an 9. There wasn't a moment in class when I wasn't working in on the image, but I think I could have put just a bit more effort into it to make it look better.