On tutorials

Kate...I haven't posted them yet but I will have them all by Sunday.

Thoughts about the logo that I needed to learn to recreate

I had to learn how to remake the Texaco logo. This above is the contemporary Texaco logo of today. The new logo doesn't have Texaco text below it because people believed that it didn't need it anymore since it is a well known logo by now.

My process was quite easy. I made a red circle the same size as the original, then I eye dropped the color from the original logo to fill in the circle. Then I used the illustrator star tool to create a star. Although I couldn't figure out how to make it more like the Texaco star; so I pen tooled the star above the original logo.

After deleting the illustrator star, I moved the penned star over to my own red circle. Now the only thing left was the letter T for the finishing touch. I used a different color to show the difference between the two. I tried many different styles of text before I found the right one. It was size 138 Franklin Gothic Demi Cond. Once I got that over to the other star, I changed the color of the text to the same color of the circle.

Finished product.

Shapes: Tutorial

For this I tried to figure out how to do the shape tools. It was helpful to learn little tips to help me how to produce them faster and more efficient. I knew what to do basically (shift = even proportions) but some things I learned were that if you held down the shift+alt keys together, the shape will expand from the inside rather than the corner. The alt key will expand the shape from the inside. Also, if you press the space key you could move the shape without deselecting the shape. Also with the polygon and star tool, before you deselect the shape, you could hit the arrow keys up or down to add or subtract sides to the shape. That was very important to know, because in CS2, I learned that there was a menu that I could use to help me and in CS3 it is completely different.

This tutorial was great. I love learning new quick keys that will help me with illustrator. Some things I already knew, but the space key, alt key and arrow keys were new. That is great to know.

Backs of Postcards

Front Postcards

Postcard Crits.

Postcard 1. Not quite done yet. going to change the font and also add his tail onto the back.


Postcard 2. Salad eating Caterpiller....I like this. The font on the front is different than shown here though.

The Caterpiller is sleeping and dreaming of his salad that he will recieve in the morning.

Cherrie!!! This is for you!

I drew my hand in like 15 minutes.

So this was the one that I wanted to frame. Our professor made us look at a fuzzy picture then slowly made the picture clearer as time went on.

The next three pictures are a series. This was the first painting that I did. This was the picture that I sold before.

This was the last picture that I did. It is the same size as my next piece is going to be. This one was called Amour


This was the second piece. Amity is the same size as the Ardor piece.