My new friend Vicky

Raven Review

Where I went on Friday

This is a picture of the harbor in Pelican.


Below is a ship pulling into the dock in Elfin Cove, the Brady Glacier is in the background.

Miranda's Prom

Miranda and her prom date Eric...they are just friends. They had a good time, although they say the dance was a bit crowded and boring.

Hierarchal Progression

This is just a simple design, easy to read. I went with the blue on top to be like the sky and then use the black as a more serious earthy text. The important part is to get the name of the Marathon, which is in the bolder dark text.

On this second one, I wanted to be more fun with the words. The rainbow came to mind, first as the element that appears a lot in Juneau with the rain and sun being able to co-exist. The other thing is diversity and the runners in a marathon will be a diverse group in many respects. Every one of those runners will have their own reason why running 26.2 miles in a good idea. I separated it out so that the rainbow colors could be read on their own and still make sense, as did the gray colors...which by the way I picked to be the clouds.

This last one was an attempt to get the eye to have to focus on two important things. Juneau Alaska and to run the Frank Maier Marathon. When viewing this I think the eye goes first to the what: run the Frank Maier Marathon and then to the where: Juneau Alaska and finally the why: See. Then once all the single elements are read the eye wants to go from left to right and top to bottom then reading the complete phrase.

Icon #1

Icon #2

Animal Graphic

I chose to do a newt. During my physical analysis of the newt, I noticed that they didn't have any real "sharp" attributes. The only thing that remotely seemed ridged was the spine going down the body and tail. The other thing that seemed to give this creature any individuality was the markings. Most pictures that I found, the newts had spots or blotches. This feature I think made the difference between newts and lizards, along with the softer edges of the newt.

Graphic Animal-simplified

To simplify the image I did a very crude form of the newt, using very sharp lines. This was the complete opposite of the actual features or the newt. I think the drawing looks more like an alligator, which I think of as a hard animal with sharp features: teeth and scales. The top three features of the newt were: Soft, defined spine and spots. With those three features I came up with the outline for the graphic reduction that I wanted to produce.

Graphic Animal - Final image reduction

After completing this project I am pleased with the way it turned out. I think the figure is plainly recognizable as a lizard type creature, the newt may have been lost in the lack of popularity of the animal. This can be the case when simplifying the creature. For example, if simplifying a horse, you may not be able to tell the difference between a quarterhorse and walking horse...which are indeed two very different horses. I think if my picture was used at a zoo, people interested in seeing lizards and other type animals would follow that sign and not be disappointed.