My new Logo

Using what I've learned from color and shape symbolism, typography, and other Illustrator tools to make a cool logo that represents me. Everything that's in the logo represents something, from the colors to the shape mean something. The colors, blue and green, are supposed to give a calming feel, because I'm calm and quiet. The letters are made out of triangles (with the arrows pointing up) to show progress, and at the same time gives the logo a 3-D feeling. The pointed bottom suggests unbalance, but I can be, sometimes. The final product looks like a sketch I made earlier, though I changed the shape to a triangle, from my original circle design. I changed it because the triangles made my logo look like a pyramid. If I made any more edits to the logo, I would change the line shape to make it look more connected, but at the time, I'm not sure how to do that.

Font Personality and Anatomy

Recently, I took a Font Personality Test and I got Perpetua Titling Light from being Rational, Understated, Traditional, and Disciplined. I like the font because it has some cool effects with different parts of the letters being different thicknesses. I used the font in an Illustrator diagram showing the different parts in the anatomy. I learned about all the parts of letters and wrote my name in my font. Here's a sample of my font and a diagram of my name.

Color Wheel

The idea for my Color Wheel started with the rotation tutorial and then I adjusted many different aspects of the tutorial image to make it personal. While looking at all of the different tools in Illustrator, I learned what a lot of them do, including some of the different fills and a lot of outline manipulation tools. Mrs. Lofquist also taught me how to use layers, which came in handy after I made all of the shapes and began to edit them. If I were to make another color wheel, I would make it different than the tutorial in many ways, such as the general form of the shapes and the amount of rotation. I also added outlines to the shapes, giving the whole wheel a more complete feel to me. In conclusion, I'm fairly satisfied with the end result and I went from thinking Illustrator was just advanced MS paint to thinking of it as a professional graphic design tool.