Vector Logos!

Queen of Fire

Ragtag Lionhearts

For this week's assignment we got to play around with vector graphics. I have never used vectors before, as I always use raster graphics, so this was a new experience for me. I used inkscape for both logos, a program I have had on my computer for over a year and never actually opened.

 For the flame logo, I actually found a little tutorial on pinterest on how to make a fire using circles. It didn't come out 100% how I wanted, but I was pretty proud of it and found it crazy that it had started out as 7 circles! Creating the crown above it was a little tricky, as I couldn't quite figure out how to make all the lines the same size. As there wasn't just a line tool, I used a box and just played around with multiple boxes until it formed a crown. This logo was sort of a mixture of inspiration from my favorite book series and the D&D games I have played in. The series, Throne of Glass, by Sarah J Maas was part of the inspiration. The main character is known as the Heir of Fire and is a queen. Then my first D&D character was a fire genasi, a being that was part flame essentially, and my current character who's name means unyielding queen. So for this I combined all that and made a Queen of Fire logo!

 My second logo is actually something I've been thinking about making for a while. In my current D&D game our group has been referred to as the Ragtag Lionhearts. This logo didn't turn out quite as good as I was hoping as it was my first try. I think after learning the circle trick, I could retry it. I also wanted the circle in the background to be a heart, but wasn't sure how to go about that. I might play around with it later to see if I can improve it. Overall, this was a fun experience. I have a friend who does his art in vector graphics and I don't understand how. The programs seem to be a lot more mouse friendly than raster graphics, but I think I prefer to free-hand stuff or use the straight line tools available in other programs.

Textorizer!

Zentus: Original Version

Zentus: Excoffizer

Zentus: Textorizer 2

Zentus: Textorizer 1

The third part of this week's assignment was to use textorizer. For these three I used the same image, the drawing I did of our big bad from our D&D campaign, Aen'livion Zentus. The guy is also my character's father, so it's been fun. I enjoyed using this website more than the word art site, just because it was more straight forward. I didn't have to worry about making sure the words would form an image, the program just did it for me. It was also fun to see how all the different settings worked together to make the image more or less defined. The excoffizer was my least favorite of the three, just because it was simply making an image wavy and didn't seem as fun to play around with as the other two. Textorizer 1 was my favorite to use because it made the image look more concrete. Textorizer 2 was still fun to use, but there was a lot of empty space not filled with words that I couldn't figure out how to fill.

Word Cloud Art Creation!

The second part of this week's assignment was to use the website wordart to create an image. For the first image I chose to use a picture of my niece to play around with the website. I couldn't quite figure out how to make it look like an actual shape with the words, so for my next example I just used one of the pregenerated shapes the website has. This would be a cool site to use for a marketing campaign. But trying to figure out which picture will actually crate a decent word cloud image seems to be a little tougher than I would have thought. For the second image I also chose to use the dragon pregenerated shape to keep up with my D&D theme.