Hayden's Blog

The three words that I based these designs on were:  edgy  instagram  cosplay  Each of these words relates to an aspect of myself. I consider myself to dress and act pretty "edgy", even making fun of myself for it most of the time. In regards to the "instagram" logo, I run a pretty decently popular cosplay and makeup instagram with over 13,000 followers on it and it's something that I'm quite proud of. Lastly, I chose the word cosplay as it's been a bit of an obsession of mine for years now. I think these words define who I am very well and the designs I chose for them suit each word. I find the most successful of the bunch was the instagram business card as it is simple yet well made and looks the most professional. 

The Beginning  I found this assignment to be one of the most enjoyable ones to date. I came into this class with no experience using any of the programs and it has taken me a lot of time and dedication to familiarize myself with them. Illustrator is still a program that gets on my nerves more often than not, but I am proud to say that I've come a long way in terms of navigating the program.  I was excited to start working on this assignment because I would be able to freely express myself in illustrator in a way that wasn't really available in other assignments where we had to use a specific tool or technique or fit the criteria. This time, however, we were given the freedom to design pretty much anything we wanted as long as our portraits were 80% of the design.  The First Draft I was given the idea for this design while browsing through some other designs by artists that inspire me. I came across this image and knew that I wanted to incorporate a lot of

These are images created using my own photos for reference and aimed at familiarizing myself with using the pen tool to create line-art portraits. At first I had a lot of difficulty using the pen tool which is why I chose to practice it! I was planning to use this line art for the mesh tool assignment but unfortunately the way I built the layers of the image and locked them together makes this impossible. Still, creating this image was good practice for the mesh tool assignment and I'm excited to create a portrait of myself using this technique.