Week 3: Exercise and Learning

 Week 3:

This week was filled with lots of new methods to continue utilizing photoshop. We covered the use of different blending layers, and more so we covered the use of fonts. In the online world of fonts there are many platforms that provide free to use type-families, like Dafont.com and Adobe fonts! After going over where to find fonts for our projects, in class we were able to see just how many different tools there are for just text alone, this included reshaping, resizing, and even being able to have the text follow a path made with the pen tool. All of these really helped me breakdown how graphic design in the wild uses tools like these.

Last week for my creative choice I had used a website that provides other artists with ways to get out of art block or to do simple doodles to keep up with their skills, I decided to use it again! As it had about 32 different choices. This week I went with this prompt: "Take a different route home and take photographs of the new things you see along the way" typically I jog home from work into my neighborhood, which has an alternitive back trail open, so I went the back way instead, this time keeping my eye out for photo opportunities.

Starting from work, in the parking lots we typically have a few types of birds that hangout by the grassy areas- I suspect this one was a type of cattle egret.

Sticking on the theme of birds, after leaving my job and heading into the back trail, there are a few powerlines, typically never of interest, but this day there was a lonely crow, who looked a little disheveled. 

Almost home! The sun started setting which made the clouds look pretty, I was also intrigued how closer to my work the whispy clouds had almost completely disappeared, as compared to the road next to my house having a really cool gradient effect. 

When I had gotten home there was a small cane toad hanging out on the back door, so I got as close as possible to take a photo, the frog stayed unbothered.

Finally when getting inside from a long work day I was able to sit and relax- my cat was quick to join me, and pose for a photo, I think the light mixing with her fur turned out pretty cool.