How Would you Like to Go Up in a Swing?

Here I go again, posting an art piece when I'm already done with the NEXT one. Inexcusable, really, but I doubt you actually knew it was sitting around, getting moldy on imageshack.us.

This one should be a nice reminder of what we're missing, with this cold and plain, though granted gorgeous weather.

This one was accomplished in Adobe Illustrator, a program I rarely if ever CHOOSE to work in. 1) I don't have it at home, so I'm not practiced at alllll... b)there isn't an eraser, as the program works completely in shapes and manipulation of such (or outlining to CREATE said shape for manipulation) and iii) the program isn't suited to as wide a range of styles as Photoshop or other programs are.

It really is a nifty program and can be fun once you get used to it...the sharp shapes and a few of the effects would be dang-near impossible to match in other programs. My friend in Independant Study who sits next to me LOVES illustrator and uses it for everything she can. Until she gets yelled at reprimanded for lacking in creativity for new projects.

You've probably seen Illustrator stuff before... most anything with this "modern", sharp-edge sort of thing is Illustrator-"style". Also, any ads put out by Apple for iPod, or poser "iFillintheblank" ads.

Like I said, it's a hard program that I don't get along with. Until I get used to it. Then it's really fun to manipulate shapes, layer colors, and bend the lines of reality and fantasy....literally. Which is what those ropes "symbolize".

This project is what Gehl claims to be the hardest CGII project, and I agree. Unlike our other projects, the sucess in this one comes not from illustrating the subject (that girl, by the way, is really just shapes I traced over her original image. But I am dang proud of that angle I found :D). It comes more from the actual DESIGN element, which is near impossible to teach and quite difficult to grasp. I like mine, and he did too. He pointed out a bunch of things I didn't realize I did (like the strong red on the rainbow splash balances the strong blue of the gradient background...which was a happy accident).

The best thing about design-based projects (and the worst) is that you really have to have leaps of faith. Which is why that ctrl-z key is a beautiful, beautiful thing...but seriously, there's very few things as wonderful as just hoping for the best and realizing you found just what you were looking for. I'd talk about the elements I used in here, but most where just that- luck. However, the gradient swooshes coming up around the girl and white circles around the sun-shape DO have a lovely story.

Nomi has this thing that she loves to incoroporate in her projects with multiple thin lines forming waves. I tried that, to give white swooshy waves up to the girl, and wasn't all too pleased. I noticed I liked the effect around the sun. And I DID like the swoosh. So after a bit of playing, I got to where I am. :)

okay so that story wasn't so good after all.

I still like the project!

"Swing" was preformed by the FGMS 6th Grade Choir by the class of 2008. Props to whoever wrote it.