Jacoby's Journeys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB7rVNOimAg&t=208s I liked this video because it really helped me learn about how to properly use the text functions in adobe illustrator. I watched this video while doing my calligramme assignment, and I found it very helpful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GzumUieDPY&t=1s I liked this video the most out of all of the videos I watched. I say this because this video is short and sweet, and to the point. It is very easy to understand and gives a brief overview on how to use some go the most important tools in illustrator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqjZR_v37K8 I liked this video because it went into slightly more detail than the brief video mentioned above. It was still very easy to understand and it gave me a deeper understanding of all of the functions adobe Illustrator has to offer.

          For this assignment I decided to do a calligram of a giraffe. Originally I was going to do binoculars with the lyrics of a queen song within the shape. Then, right when I was about to start the project in my room, it hit me, I should do a giraffe! The image above was the image I used to base off of in order to create my calligram. I chose to do a giraffe because giraffes are my favorite animal of all time. To me, giraffes are cute, sweet, and funny looking animals so I think that's why I love them so much. When I was young I would go to the zoo and beg my parents to take me to the giraffe feeding location, and every time we would go I would be so excited to see and feed the animals. In my calligram I chose to use words that reminded me of a giraffe. I used words like happy, hungry, lovely, tall and several other words to fill in the giraffes body. I tried to use different fonts and sizes in order to differentiate specific parts of the animal. I th...

I just want to give a disclaimer; this project was very difficult for me. I say this because, not only was this my first time ever using dreamweaver, it also was my first time using a computer to create any type of image. I spent over 15 hours on this project and by the end of it, I kinda had enough of it. The inspiration for this project came when I was sitting in class (kinda freaking out over what exactly I should do this project on) and out of no where, the Frosty the snowman theme song came into my mind. And then it hit me... I should create my own version of Frosty the snowman. I am aware that it is a very primitive and basic design, it truly was hard for me to achieve this end result. I definitely could have added some more things to the background or other shapes into the picture. I found it very strenuous for me to understand how the actual program worked so naturally I had hard time actually adding shapes and what not. However, even though I probably could have added som...