My Alphabet Reflective Essay  

      The task I was asked to complete in this project had been to create your own set of the american alphabet including sariff. One idea I learned during this project using adobe illustrator, had been the usage of other alphabet ideas and combining. This idea of creating different combinations of letters the way their form was not easy. So since time was against me I moved on to something else using my shape tool and formed letters from their. Once I had pulled my shapes out I began using mesh tool to literally mesh the shapes to create a new one. After my meshing process I then moved on to editing the fill of the shape and its stroke. This basically means that I took a rectangle from my tool box and using the mesh tool I literally meshed all my edges creating a new letter. My first letter was a lowercase a then a lowercase i making them both my roots for the remaining letters.

 

         In this project I was able to create my letter with the experience from the Four symbols project. Four symbols project had dealt with the skill of curve and molding figures to your very own style and expression. Using this same experience I was able to go through this project a little more easier knowing the rules and knowing when to break them. If two rules prevent me from doing something then there's one rule I would have to favor and the other brake it. This had been challenging because in certain scenarios my shapes had to be curved a certain way but my mesh tool wouldn't curve a specific way I had wanted curve, so I used the eraser tool. This alphabet really doesn't reflect who “ernesto” is but its something that I tried to work with this project really was not my favorite because if I really wanted to show who ernesto was through the alphabets this design was scratching the surface.    
   During this assignment I wasn't inspired to work on this project. This project was fun because of the idea of creating your own alphabet, but I really did not feel like making my own alphabet with the amount of time given. what I learned in this graphic design project is no matter what with any time given we have to put all our effort into our priorities. This project had been my priority and everything had to be put aside to complete the project with all my effort. During this project what I learned about adobe illustrator is how to use mesh tool and slice tool. For every tool used in the software I learned how to be innovative with the various tools. What I learned about myself in this program is that if i’m not interested in something I won't go for it. This attitude is not something great to have I learned to go with it even if I don't like the project it still deserves my 110% effort. If I had another week to do this project I’m sure I would use all my effort to accomplish each requirement.

   In english class were studying who we are and what generates our emotions or way of life. So as we did this project I learned that with my emotions I churned them into a work of art, because of the emotions generated by my environment . These ideas have help me condense my ideas into one simple thought and from their my product had been this project. I don’t know much about the business world, but this sort skill could be most certainly used accentuating or promoting a title of a company.