Kiara Wetherington: March 2015

Typography is the style and the appearance of printed matter. In translation, it is the act of arranging type and printing it. Typography can be used with images to make a lasting impact. The way typography does this is by using the text to your advantage and creating things from it to make it more than just text on a page. Typography allows you to transform some thing boring, like text, into something much more meaningful like a person or other image.

While doing the first picture of Nikola Tesla, I ran into one or two complications. One of those being the text itself. I had to copy and paste almost all of the text from Nikola Tesla's Wikipedia page and squish it all together into one big paragraph. I felt the need to indent all of them, (even though I was not supposed to!) But the actual problem I had with the text was that I thought I was doing everything wrong, (which I do often) but Leila told me that it was fine, so I took her word for it. If I did it wrong blame her (jk). Once I put all of the text together, I had a little trouble adjusting the lighting of the text and Nikola himself. I overcame both of these obstacles, and I think it turned out great. The real obstacle I came over was in my second image, I had a lot of trouble bringing out her eyebrow.

I liked my first typography image a lot. Though I admit, it could of been improved, I think that I did fairly well. What makes the first image different from the others is that it's: 1) Black and white. and 2) The text is in the background as well. My second image of Ms. Bandsma could've definitely been improved. It was difficult to see Ms. Bandsma's raised eyebrow and I had to start over and completely change everything. I like a few qualities about my second image, but I could've done much better... My third image is my favorite by far. While it may not be perfect, I really tried my hardest on the image. I like the colors I chose and my word choice is pretty great. I used words such as "Dork", "Nerdy", "Gamer", and "Kind" to match who I am, or at least how I see myself. My biggest obstacle would probably be trying to get Ms. Bandsma's eyebrows to stick out. We weren't really supposed to use the soft brush at all, but it was the only way I could get her eyebrows to actually show. So I was kind of in limbo for a while. I ended up using the soft brush anyways, but turned the opacity down a bunch.