Professional project review

Reflection

Throughout kiwi the creator used these design  principles very well. They mainly focus on the trees. the trees are all evenly spaced and roughly the same size, and the cliff has a similar shape all the way down. These elements give the piece a kind of balance and pattern. The story that you can get from this was this was a wingless bird that's only want/dream in life is to fly. judging by the enormity of thee cliff the bird spent a long time trying to achieve this goal and in the end it finally felt like it was flying. When the bird is just getting ready to jump they added a wind up and sprint that gave a fast feel to it. This ease in is something we learned about in class. something I would like to add to my project would be the steady and natural feeling speed that this creator was able to portray. I felt that the creator did a fantastic job of making the kiwi have a personality and feelings without words or even arms. I feel like this isn't a finished project because it has a lack of textures, which may have been what they were going for but if I were in charge thats how I would improve it. I really enjoyed this clip and I felt sympathy for the bird, its also tough for me to watch the ending.

Pencils

My process behind this was first, of course, I followed the packet to make a very basic pencil and can. I thought I should expand on that Idea and make it a bit  more realistic so I lengthened out the pencil and added a different texture to the metal on the end of what I usually think of a wooden pencil. For the can I pictured a can of green beans and I took the label off and was left with a metal can with these big rivets on it so that was how I made that.

The first basic thing I took away from this was a deeper knowledge of the tools and how to use them, for example the rectangle tool drawn from the middle can create the effect of depth on the pencil because it adds the lines and makes it look hexagonal like a real pencil. Another tool was the direct select tool which I used to take the bottom half of the ellipse and drag it down to create the can. Finally, I have heard of the live paint bucket tool before but I wasn't exactly sure how to use it and with this project I now know how to .

The second thing I took away from this is how much a little variation can change the whole feel to a piece. For example, my first pencil to the second. Not too much changed but it went from a child's pencil to a pencil at an employee's desk.

Finally I learned more about the nature of 3D objects especially with the ink well on my fountain pen drawing. What I mean by this is I redrew the inkwell a couple of times the first time the bottom was flat, then I changed the lip on top from two overlapping ellipsis and finally the Ink on the inside at first was a rectangle then a flat black then finally I added the outline to pronounce the shape.