5. Madeline Hibbert: Practice Type Sketches

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5. Hibbert: “Practice Type Sketches,” Paper,  8.5 x 11”, Self Directed, 2015

These were personal practice sketches I did on my own time. The reason I have a variety of types I picked is because I was practicing different styles. One through nine were my attempts at practicing 'anime style' from using characters from shows, as well as to practice character heading turning. Ten and eleven was my own created character I did after I decided to give it my own try. Twelve through fifteen was also practice on heading turning provided by the internet, and how to correctly begin and end a face to get the correct head movement for numerous situations. Sixteen through twenty five was also my practice on realistic drawing from faces to random objects and everyday items. 

6. Madeline Hibbert: Movie Poster

This project was an experiment to make our own movie poster to better learn uses of photoshop. I went with a parody on the Hunger games creating the Hungry Games, following the same Bank Gothic font as the original posters to create a similar feel with a "multiple" shading effect applied.  I also overlaid Gollum with various cut out utensils and well known quotes from both movies.  

7. Madeline Hibbert: Land O' Lakes Challenge

7. Hibbert: “Land O’ Lakes Challenge,” Photoshop, Photography, 2015

The Land O’ Lakes Challenge was quite a bit of a challenge. It required buying the actual butter box, photographing it in proper daylight, cropping it,changing it to LAB color, accurately making sure white was white and black was black on the info tool, and then finally, getting it to print out as accurately looking to the real butter box as possible. The last part was the hardest, as there is a different between additive light on the computer screen to the subtractive color of the printer. 

8. Madeline Hibbert: In Class Color Correction

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8. Hibbert: “In Class Color Correction,” Photoshop, Photography, 2015


This color experiment was similar to the butter box challenge, however, this one involved some majorly off color photographs. What I really learned from this was how to use camera raw as well as utilize photoshop to manipulate photographs in any way possible to achieve an awesome amount of effects. The case for this assignment however was to make these photographs as realistic as possible by making sure once again the white was white and the black was black with the curve, color correction and info tools.   

9. Madeline Hibbert: Letters in Color

9. Hibbert: “Letters In Color,” Illustrator, 16x16”, Typography and Publication, 2015

This project called for the use of color which could have been the same for each picture, or they could have been entirely different. The whole point however was to cleverly make these letter designs come together with aesthetics and expressiveness but still have readability and clarity of what letters were making up the whole. Then the final was printed on 16x16” paper for critique.

10. Madeline Hibbert: Figure/Ground Shapes

10. Hibbert: “Figure/Ground”, Paper, 8.5 x 11, Two Dimensional Design, 2015

This project was for obvious figure ground relationships, the figure being the thing that is seen and focused on while the ground is everything else. The goal was to take a letter and create four figure ground relationships.  The first was to be a letter that was fifty fifty in figure/ ground relationships. The second, third, and fourth experiments were to choose one of the colors/shapes, take those shapes, and create new figure ground relationships. The second picture was to allow none of the figure touch the outer edges. The third was to allow each border be touched by those same color shapes, and the fourth picture was freestyle. Overall, this project helped me see just how much figure ground relationships can affect a piece and be effectively utilized. 

11. Madeline Hibbert: Similarity-Proximity Collage and Shapes

11. Hibbert: “Similarity-Proximity Collage and Shapes,” Paper/Magazines, Two Dimensional Design, 2015

 

In the first photo, the project was all about utilizing similarities in shapes, colors, sizes, and value while also creating effects of focus with the four proximity types of close edge, touch, overlap and combining. The mission included creating a phrase, using all four proximity types, every letter to be of a different type, and everything had to be cut from magazine except for the background. What was nice about this project was discovering how much close edged objects quickly become identified as groups, but also that largely spaced items can draw attention too.  

For the second photo, This project called for two images to be made of four colors. One to be symmetrical, while the other had to be completely asymmetrical. The first image, granted, was simple with the needs to create different shapes and colors and arrange them in an interesting yet symmetrical design. The second however, was the real focus of the project as it required complete asymmetry, that is, there could be no mirror images within the picture so that there was no 'balance' or hence, symmetry involved. What was neat about this was discovering even how to do this, by starting with different larges shapes/colors, and then working down to smaller shape/colors and dispersing them out in such a way so that the eye never stays or automatically attracts to one part of the picture. Nothing could be put along a center axis, no objects could be directly symmetrically placed in a corner since those are center axises too, and no shape was allowed to continue from another shape because this counted as alignment from an axis as well. Overall, a very enlightening similarity-proximity/ symmetrical/asymmetrical assignment. 

12. Madeline Hibbert: Illustrator Practice

12. Hibbert: “Illustrator Practice” Digital, Art 3420 A B, 2015. 

These in class practice exercises may have been a challenge learning at first, but they all steadily became fun class assignments. The first was a selfie emoji (done as a classic sleep deprive collage student of course), while the second was practicing with letters and type manipulation, and the last were vector drawn images, showing how pictures can be built after using basic shapes and pathways to unit, cut, or combine shapes that we then colored.