For this project, we are taking a picture of a girl in a box and moving it over to a large room. I am know where near done with this project. The Miniature Scene Project took much longer than I expected. I am currently pen tooling out the unnecessary parts around the girl. Once that is done, I will be using multiple composting Technics to make her flow and look natural in the room.

Miniature Scene

For this project, we took 3 items: a lion, a plant, and a calf. The project was fairly simple. We pen tooled most of the items out then added small adjustments such as shadows and lighting changes to make it flow. It was very time consuming all though. It took me a little longer than I would have liked it too.

Princess Pickles

We had to princess a person in our class but we felt that this picture illustrated Meaghan's personality way more perfectly.

3D Illustrator Map

This project was definitely more of a challenge. Creating the houses on the land to give it that 3D effect took a lot of shaping and trial and error. The tools were pretty basic to create everything. Most if it was the pen tool, rectangle tool, and scaling. We took a screen shot of a place of our choice from Google Maps and gave it this 3D effect. I couldn't decide on a place and my really good friend just recently moved to Australia so I decided to choice his new neighborhood. The outcome was overall pretty good.

Crappy to Snappy

This is my finished project for the "crappy to snappy" website remake I created. I felt that everything was too small and your eyes weren't appealed to anything. The top space was also too empty. I tried to add some pictures up there but they just didn't click. So, I decided to type in "Hawk Life" instead which doesn't look too bad. I mostly focused on the events and link making them bigger and more appealing. There are of course still changes that can be made, but overall, I feel that this is a big improvement compared to the original.

This is the homepage of my high school. When I first look at it, it just seems so boring and you don't really know where to look. The things that I feel should be popping out more is the "Announcements" and the "Happening Next". That should be the main focus which I am focusing most on and making it larger and more appealing. I am also adding a few more colors.

This is the updated cover photo to my portfolio. I removed the to pictures because I wasn't to crazy for the idea and just kept it simple.

This was a project that me and two other people in my class created. It was a follow up to another After Effects project. We green screened to items in and created this. After a little practice, it's pretty simple.

This is a Christmas Card that I created in Photoshop for my Visual Design class. Whenever I think of Christmas, the first thing that I tend to think of is a snowman. I used the ellipse tool to create all the circles of the snowman and the pen tool to create the hills, top hat, and his nose. I applied a gradient to the sun to make it show like it was giving off heat. I hope that everyone enjoys there holidays!

Troll

For this project in Illustrator I created a troll off of a sketch. At first when I started adding the gradient and color, I used the live paint tool without backing anything up which completely messed up my lines. So I had to restart it but the next time I just outlined each body part which worked much better. I learned a lot about pen tool and creating smoother lines and curves as well as the gradient tool. I learned a lot about shadowing also by just adding a simple shape and making it a darker color.

Photo Retouching

For this project in Visual Design, I retouched a portrait of myself in Photoshop. In this project, I used many different tools to remove blemishes from my face, smooth things out, add light and darkness to areas, and get rid of hairs. The clone stamp helped me remove the random hairs and the spot healing brush was used to remove blemishes. To brighten my skin I used the Dodge and Burn tool and various blend modes were used to smooth out my skin.  Overall, I learned a lot from this project and I am very happy with the results.

Mama B's Bakery

I wanted to make the logo something you thought of when you heard bakery and the first thing to come to my mind was donuts. I'm still working on cause somethings wrong but I can't quite figure it out. Any input would be great.

Portfolio Cover Page

In Visual Design class, we created a portfolio for our art work in Adobe InDesign. It took some time to get started and get the grasp of the program but once you did, it got a lot easier. I went for a kind of standard simple cover page that pops out a little with the tool bar being a sort of sky blue.