Throughout this semester I have had a’lot of fun. This class has been one of the more enjoyable classes I’ve had throughout the school years and im very happy to say that I took this class. I have learned alot, almost all the Adobe software you can think of, and although i’m not an expert with them, im still alot better then I was before.

For the most part I enjoyed most of the free creative assignments. These assignments allowed us to branch off and create what we wanted and to show our stories through that topic. I really enjoyed the logo and I really enjoyed making the video, those were both really fun.

The logo was pretty difficult to make, I remember I had a’lot of issues with the pen tool and I cant tell you how many times I almost quit this logo and made a completely different one. One that was more simple and less dynamic so it would be easier to make. In the end I finally got it though. One thing I could never get right was the letters. As you can see they kind of go through the inside lines and I tried fixing that but I just couldn’t get it to work, but in the end I am still very satisfied with what I created and my friends really liked it too!

As for ‘Gains TV’, this was by far my favorite assignment. Creating a story board and writing a script was really really fun. I had full freedom to make what I wanted and it shows through the light comedy. I’d like to think that i’m a pretty positive guy and I like to make people smile. I went through all of my other assignments pretty serious on the notion of getting mad gains and being serious about it, but I wanted people to see that getting mad gains doesn’t have to be so serious.

I have just switched my majors from Psychology to Kinesiology and am looking to go into the physical therapy field. There are so many athletic trainers and physical therapists on youtube that make a ton of videos about working out and i’m sure that would be a lot of fun for me to do. I mean I already got a logo and I got pretty good with Premiere, I mean who knows? The possibilities are endless.

When I wanted to learn something that the tutorials didn’t show, I would usually look it up on youtube. There are so many people on their that give you such an in depth look at what you can do with all these programs and looking at those tutorials wouldn’t be a bad Idea if anyone is ever looking to get really into this type of stuff. For other stuff like non copy righted music, I would just use websites that have non copyrighted things. That’s what I did and it worked out great. Same goes for images as well!

Overall this class was so much fun and i’m sad to see it go. I want to thank my T.A. Leti for being such a great T.A. and helping me so much throughout the semester. She was always so nice and helped me out whenever I needed it. For future students that will take this class, I know they will have a’lot of fun!

When finishing up this project I had one thing in mind, and that’s growth. I wanted to make a logo that was both simple yet complex if that makes any sense at all. GW4N stands for, “Gains Wait for No one” and it was a group that me and my friends made back in high school, it was first a joke really until I started taking lifting and fitness seriously. When I started taking lifting seriously, the way I looked at life changed completely. I grew both mentally and physically and I wanted this logo to represent that in total. The logo consists of using the pen tool to make most of the outlines and then using the curve pen tool to obviously make the curves and make things look better in total. It took awhile but I think it came out pretty nicely. There are some rough places like the fingers which were really hard to fix or to make look any better but I believe it looks pretty good for someone who has only been using illustrator for 3 weeks.

After Tuesday the feedback from out group members came in and for the most part their reaction to the logo was quite positive. With feedback saying, “I don’t have much to say about the logo” or “Your logo looks really good”. I had a few suggestions about the lettering and to not have the letters intersect with the lines of the arm. I tried to fix it but I just couldn’t seem to get it right so I just kept the original idea with the letters. I cleaned up some line work in the outlines of the arms as well. The differences are very subtle and you’d have to look pretty close to tell, but I think I’m starting to get really good with the pen tool. I didn’t quite understand it very much at first but now it seems pretty easy.

The logo above is the rough draft and you can tell the difference between the two. I added some color to the final to make it pop out more and you can see that I cleaned up the lines in the final project. Overall this project has been pretty fun and i’m glad I got to make a logo representing what my ideals are.

During the process of making this logo I had come into a’lot of trouble making the custom shapes. The pen tool is a very hard tool to work but I eventually got it to get the basic shape of my original sketch. My ideas for this project was to have a clear image of what this journey has been all about. It shows strength but inside it shows something more.

GW4N, being my group me and my friends made back in the day and it shows strength and integrity. I researched some swole arms before making the sketch and I found a couple I liked so I combined the ideas I found and made it my own. I needed to have the name of the group inside of the arm for the purpose of showing what growth really looks like.

All the tools I used to create my logo was the curved pen tool, the pen tool, and the type tool. I wanted to make the letters in a different way but I was having alot of trouble doing that so I just used the type tool. I plan on working on what I actually want to do for the final project. Luckily this is just a draft so I have time to rework some things and make it even better!