EVE WHELAN

Following on from the three typography workshops where three draft fonts were created, one was taken forwards to create a more finished font. I have decided to go back to my second favourite of them and refine it more on illustrator. I have taken the rough drawing of the font, recreated it with neater lines, edited some of the letters to read more clearly and added additional details and elements of colour to the font. When deciding to name the font, after creating the full alphabet, it was reminding me of cavemen and the cave drawings they have created that have been etched into the walls of the cave. The names were narrowed down to Caveman, Etching, Engrave and Scratch. The chosen name for my font is Scratch. When the font is displayed on a black background, it highlights the coloured elements of the font. And shows a unique font of sorts made up of lines and dots; a coded font.

In the sixth and final Editorial Design workshop, we covered a few different techniques in Illustrator and InDesign. In the first half of the workshop we familiarised ourselves with adobe capture and how to use it to take photos of vectors, make patterns and colour palettes. We then linked this to illustrator to use the images we had just taken. We then progressed to taking a photo from Pexels.com which we edited, rendered and clipped, then adding text to achieve the result shown below. After that we moved onto the InDesign portion of the workshop where we created a mini portfolio of work taken from previous blog posts and workshops. We then learnt of how to export and package the file, leaving us with multiple copies both online and stored to a device; to always have access to our work. The mini portfolio I created is shown below and accessible from https://indd.adobe.com/view/95483216-951e-4577-aad4-e4395029339f

In the sixth After Effects workshop, the task was to create a 10 second animation of something that you would find in space. This was then to be edited together with all the other animations from my group to create one 3-4 minute animation of numerous different things in space. I decided to create my animation based on Halley’s comet, a comet that is visible from earth only once every 74-79 years. Also included in my animation is a rotating planet, after learning how to create the only 3D shape you can create in After Effects, a sphere. The workshop also taught us the use of the alpha channel in After Effects when rendering animations, as the animation includes transparency at the start and the end so they could be easily edited together. Below is my 10 second animation of Halley’ Comet, followed by the final result of Group C. Halley's Comet from Eve Whelan on Vimeo . Year 1 Finale: Group C from Motion-go on Vimeo .

The task for this workshop was to look around the creative arts building and it’s different levels, exploring the way people move and interact with the space around them, how perspective can create such unique and innovative composition and how windows act as frames to the world. The first piece I created below as a response was an oil pastel piece looking at unusual perspectives and how compose a piece from it. I am pleased with the result and the tonal work created with the oil pastels despite being a medium I rarely use.