A late night post

Aside from my unneeded ranting earlier, I am at a loss with this logo project. I need to finish a logo for the department of corrections, and I have no idea where to start. I have a slight idea in mind for a basic seal, and I hope it will be good enough, I cannot afford to make a low grade on this, but i find nothing exciting about the organizations in which we design these logos for. My muse is lost so to say. I will do my best to do something useful and not too flashy, being as this is a state organization and a character or some inane logo would not be taken seriously. Wish me luck

God Bless,
Mike

Pondering

Yesterday I turned 20. Sometimes I wonder where the time goes, at 20 years old, I have virtually nothing but the things ive been through in life to show for this. I have nothing to show for this, nothing of my own. How does this relate to Graphic Design? Easily. With nothing to show, no great artistic ability, how will I ever reach my dream of opening a clothing line? With no great artistic ability how will I ever succeed in showing these youth what God has done for me? How can I succeed?
Im sorry for this enigmatic post, it relates nothing to the class, but it relates to my future. I can only Hope and pray that I will gain enough skill to be noticed.
I wish I was better, I wish I could do this with more style and not just get "Average" grades and "average" remarks when I try my best for this.

Many Apologies,
Mike

My second blog for this week will be updated on Saturday

This week has been filled with just fun stuff. we have been through two different logos to complete. one for SACSCOC (The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges) and the South Carolina Correctional Association. It should be interesting, SACSCOC already has a logo, but it needs an extra "oomph" so to say, and the SCCA used to have a logo, but it was shameful (just kidding). Hopefully I'll be able to do a great logo and get it chosen. The SACSCOC logo is a competition, and seems to be pretty cool, first prize is five hundred dollars or some amount like that. I may or may not do that one just for the fact I might get money, but also I probably won't win at all... I might try it though.

God Bless,
Mike

This logo is coming along nicely

Today I've been working on the Mr. Sparkle project for hours. It is quite intimidating, I am not so good with hands on drawing like most of the other students in this class, nor am I good with creating cutesy little characters. My opinion, I think it should just be a basic logo able to be put anywhere or on anything. Maybe that is just me, I am just trying to make it convenient, usable and not too flashy or anything of that sort, just convenient but cool. I hope this won't affect my grade though, honestly its just a business thing, you don't want something that will blind people but you don't want just drab art either, so something with some basic gradients some glares and a basic but proper font should do just fine. Attached is a picture. Tell me what you think?

Other than this, we must also design a logo for a pediatrician's office, but Mr. Sparkle is on the top of this priority list.

God Bless All of You,
Mike

Mithter Thparkle

Today I completed the basic tutorial for color swatches in Adobe Illustrator. It was pretty interesting, I learned a lot about color combinations. Attached to this blog is a photo deal from the finished project, one thing to keep in mind though is that I did not draw or create any of these logos or anything, I just messed around with the color combination.

Our newest project is a real world one though, we have to create a logo for a cleaner called "Mr. Sparkle".....I can't help but laugh every time I read this name.
I am trying to think of some cool ideas, hopefully I'll come up with something they will use.

God Bless,
Mike

my gosh, Its done

I finished it. My work is complete, an M107 sniper rifle, completely colored and all. This project was fun once it was completed (as most are), but getting there was comparable to taking a magic ring to a Volcano to stop middle earth from being destroyed. In fact I'm pretty sure Frodo himself would have screamed at this project.
Enough of my nerd-power though. The sniper rifle had hard parts, but I am thankful the overall color scheme was just different shades of green. Overall, this project was comparable to slave labor, but I take great pride in the finished project.

On other news, in the other Graphic Design class, we are going over how to use excel.
fun.
and i mean that in the most sarcastic of manners.
utter fun.


God Bless,
Mike

this is completely inane....yes i mean inane.....

Oh my gosh. This project is frustrating, even more so than the "Less is More" bit. The pen tool bends to its own will, not where I want it, and keeping it proportional and dimensional is killer. I almost hate this, but I love it at the same time, so we'll call this a love/hate relationship. Overall, this project looks cool when each individual section becomes complete, but to get to that point is a pain worse than being body slammed by Chris Farley at his peak.

Pain.

utter pain and suffering.

but kinda fun too

God Bless,
Mike

New Day, New Project

Today I am getting on with the coloration project assigned by the prof last week. Its a pain in the butt, but it looks pretty cool when some of the parts are complete. I am working on a fifty caliber sniper rifle and the coloring is pretty weird, Illustrator wants to always choose a different color and screw up my gradients. All in all it looks pretty cool though, despite how hard it is, I really am having fun.

Hopefully when its complete it will look really awesome, its already starting to, so I can't wait to see the end result!

God Bless,
Mike