typography

The strongest part of my visual is the color gradient because it makes the picture pop. The outline of the building could be worked on to look more accurate. I could spend more time with the pen tool making sure the buildings were outlined correctly. I used the pen tool, the type tool, and the area type tool. The pen tool was used to create the outline of the buildings, the type tool was used to create all of the sentences in the first top half, while the area type tool was used to write within the selected area.
It was easy to find a picture lay out and a quote to use to go along with it. However, outlining the figures and making the words fit within it could get a little difficult as it didn't always work. I demonstrated my goals by making the sky look like a gradient of words.
If I could do this assignment again I would probably spend more time with designing the outline of the buildings and making sure the words are aligned the way I'd like them to be. On a scale from 1-10, I would rate my effort as a 9 because I really tried to make this a good project, but I have also lost my motivation.

Poly

The strongest part of my visual is definitely how my eyebrows and hair turned out. The eyebrows look really clean and my hair looks really cool as there are several different colors, making it stand out. I think  my teeth can be improved because one of the teeth got messed up, as it was connected to many other things, making it difficult to color it in. I could improve it by going back and disconnecting all of those parts so that I could color in that tooth.
Tools I used to create this work were the pen tool, the selection tool, and the eyedropper tool. I used the pen tool to create the outlines of my face, the selection tool to select each section, and the eyedropper tool to create the color in each of those sections selected. The easy part of this art activity was using the eyedropper tool to create the color because all i had to do was select it and then click on it, and it changed the color. The hardest part of the activity was using the pen tool, because there were often times where it didn't outline the portion that i wanted.
I demonstrated the goals of this activity by creating a poly graphic version of myself, which you can clearly see is myself. If i could do this assignment again, I would spend more time on it to make sure that I outlined the figures more accurately. On a scale of 1-10, I would rate my effort as an 8 for this project because I began to get stressed because it wasn't working out the way I wanted it to, so I began to give up.