Helvetica Documentary

• Pro's: Helvetica is a very balanced looking font that is smooth around the edges and isn't harsh.
•   It has stood the test of time and is still be used a lot so that means it has to be some good.
• Most of the designers agreed that even if your some kind of rube you can still make a design look good as long as you use Helvetica.
• Helvetica is pretty much impossible to improve so in some ways that makes it the ultimate font.

Cons

• So many people use it if you use it you are just on of the crowd.
• It is a boring font and you must make the design other than it to spice things up.
• It started the VIETNAM War and every other war after that....
• If you use it to much you might become a Helvetica elitist and refuse to use any other font.

Self Portrait Drawing

In this project we took our picture from the 1st or 2nd week of school and drew it on Photoshop. I used different sizes of brushes for different parts of my face and torso. Originally I was wearing a blue plaid shirt but decided to switch it to purple. Some how my teeth ended up coming out black

instead of sketched and white but it looks fine.

I then found a picture for my background on the internet it was called "Ice Hotel" and i sketched that out on Photoshop. This didn't take as long as my portrait because there are just fewer lines. Then again painting "Ice Hotel" took a very long time. I had to get the horizon even looking and made sure that the colors scaled in darkness starting at the building at a the lightest shade of blue. In the original picture of "Ice Hotel" there were clearly defined people to the left of the building, but with painting I had to just paint them in black. The reason i picked "Ice Hotel" is because it had a really awesome horizon and cool lighting. What I really learned during this whole exercise was the importance of putting layers in correct order.

Layering can be a disaster if you mess it up, but

can be really amazing if you pull it off right.