Tressa McIff Blogs

For this assignment, I was supposed to create a personal logo. We started by learning about what makes a good logo and how we could apply those rules to our own work. Next, we sketched three different possible logos and picked the best best. Finally, we transferred our logos to Illustrator. I decided to make a heart that is half black and half white with my initials in the middle. I like this design because it is very sleek, simple, and straight forward. The colors are very basic but give the design a smooth look. I have been drawing this since sixth grade so guess it has always been my "logo" of sorts. I never really had any meaning behind it but my friends say that it represents how I can be very dark and reserved before you get to know me but then, when I break out of my shell, I am fun and bright. I had some difficulties creating this on Illustrator because I couldn't figure out how to create a heart or how to only she in half of i...

For this project, we were supposed to draw either 20 flowers, trees, birds, or houses. I chose to draw 20 flowers. This was fairly difficult for me as I am not a talented artist at all, so I really just hopes that the sketches would turn out slightly decent. I looked up different pictures of flowers and did maybes to draw them as accurately as I could. I drew real flowers as well as some more abstract flowers. When I got to the illustrator step in this project, I decided to stray from what I had drawn. I typically find that I do much better with these types of projects when I just wing it, so that's exactly what I did. I started out by making a simple circle and adding abstract petal-like shapes off of it. Originally, I thought that this would just be my flower. Later on, however, I decided to make it an abstract sun with plain flowers underneath. I decided to give the some more vibrant colors to the sun than the plants to draw more attention to it and to show that the sun w...

  According to this mini Meyers Briggs test, my personality type is INTJ. This stands for Introvert, Intuitive, Thinking, and Judging. Introvert means that I recharge by being by myself. Intuitive means that I think more about data inseated of just taking it directly as it is. Thinking means that I have to critically think things through instead of relying on feelings. Finally, judging means that I want things to be neat, orderly, and established. I think this evaluation describes me fairly well, especially the introvert and thinking aspects. I defintely prefer to keep to myself and never realy on my feelings or logic. However, I don't think the intuitive part is very accurate. Although I do like to be creative at times, I generally prefer straight facts over everything else. This evaluation of my personality can defintely help to explain why I don't have many friends. I am very aloof and often annoy people with how technical I am. When I am on a team I usually take on th...

Colors can be extremely effective in communicating a message or evoking feelings. Different colors have different connotations. Black is associated with death and mystery, red is associated with blood and passion, and white is associated with purity and innocence. Colors can also evoke many different emotions in many different people based on their memories and just basic preferences. My favorite color is black. I like black because it is a very universal color and people don't usually ask why I like it. Other than that, I really have no reason. I have no extremely fond memories involving the color black. Just like it because I like it. My least favorite color is yellow. I don't like yellow because it is too invasive and bright. I just find the color yellow really annoying. I also don't like lemon flavored candies. I don't know if that has anything to do with me not liking the color yellow, probably not, but I will include it anyway. Color is a huge part of grap...