Meanings of My Logo

Since the topic of my first assignment is deforestation, I tried to convey the message of protecting the trees on the earth because it is the main character in maintaining the balance of the ecosystem of nature.

I purposely design my tree with a lot of branches and leaves in comparison to the tree trunk and draw it as if it is growing in the middle of a hill to enhance the message of tree as a character in maintaining the balance of the nature at the same time praising the tree as a holy presence of the earth. The tree plays important role not only in carbon cycle and maintaining regular global temperature but also as the primary food source for living creatures. Without trees living creatures will die eventually because of the disruption in the food chain and also the imbalance of carbon cycle.

Next, I purposely make the lines of the whole image very thick to create the feelings like the tree is being created through mosaic, a totally different feeling as compare to others artwork which I get this inspiration through the mosaic on the wall of the bathroom when I was taking my bath.

The fireflies and the black background symbolized that the tree is just like fireflies providing a little glimpse of light in the darkness of the night. When the world becomes more and more pollute because of human actions, there's only the trees struggling to maintained the harmony between nature and human beings. And the amount of trees left around the world keep on decreasing day by day until its number reaching a state that its always wiped out completely by us, the human beings, just like the light of fireflies although visible but so tiny in the night sky that it feels like it is going to fade away anytime.

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Steps in Producing Assignment 2

Firstly, I open the pencil sketch of my tree in Illustrator and used pen tool to draw the outline of my tree. I separate the lines into a few layers that is the pencil sketch layer, tree trunk layer, background layer, leaves layer, hill layer, firefly layer and also another layer for my logo.
Next, I make the lines of the whole image becomes thicker by changing the stroke of the outline of the tree to 10pt. Then I fill in the trunk of the tree with brown color by using Fill Path technique.
On the leaves layer, I fill the leaves with color by using Fill Path technique and add some gradient to the color of the leaves by mixing 3 colors that is dark green, light green and white color. Besides, in order to make the leaves appear more coordinate, I rotate the angle of the gradient by changing the angle of the gradient, some remain 0 degree, some into 90, 180 and 270 degree.
After that, I fill in colors for my Hill layer also by using Fill Path technique at the same time adding gradient to the hill. For the Hill, I mixed only dark green and light green for the gradient. Then, by using Pencil tool, I draw some grass free handed so that the whole picture won't look so dull.

Next I create a new layer which I named as Firefly. For this layer I try to draw fireflies surrounding the tree. I used Ellipse tool and randomly draw some circles on the picture then fill in the circles with orange color which I blend in 3 types of orange and 1 type of yellow color and I change the type of gradient into Radial gradient. In order to create the soft and blurry light carried by the fireflies, I choosed Gaussian blur in the Blur tool, and change the pixel to 9.o and alter the size of the firefly some into small and some into big to create distace effect.

To accentuate the color of the firefly, I fill the background of the whole picture with black color at the same time also because firefly usually active in the night.

This is how the whole picture looks like after changing the background to black color.Finally, I open up a new layer and put my logo in assignment 1 on the bottom right corner of the picture.

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Rough Sketches of Assignment 2

This is the picture of tree which I consider as reference for my Assignment 2. The reason I choosed this picture is because of the huge branches and the leaves growing out from the main branches when compare to other trees that surround it.

I decided to draw a tree with its leaves and branches much more larger than its trunk and the land below in contrast to show the importance of the role played by trees in the balance of the nature.

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Background research for Assignment 2

Background research of Tree

For this assignment, we are supposed to draw a main object from the topic of our logo in assignment 1. Since the main message I want to deliver from my logo is planting more trees, I'm going to draw a tree for this assignment.
I start of by doing some research and collect some pictures of different kinds of trees. Here are some of the pictures of the trees that attract my attention from among thousands of the 'trees' picture in GOOGLE, and also MSN search engine.
For this picture I kinda like the whole concept of the picture, no complicated background, it makes the whole tree standout and clear as the main subject of the whole picture. The fruits of the trees gave me a feelings like this is the tree of life which provides the food for our life....kinda fairytale-like.

After seeing a few classmates using this picture as their reference, I was kinda struggle whether I should use it or not at first. But in the end, I still unable to resist this tree. I have the 'wow' feeling when I first saw this tree. Its extremely huge, and the way the branches branch out from the main branch and the way the trees around it grow become so small in proportions to the big tree, and its like the centre tree is the mother tree shading every living things around it. That's why I especially like this one. It perfectly deliver my message in this assignment. I think that trees is like the character that maintains the balance of ecosystem in the world.

For this tree I like the concept that it shows the condition of a tree during the change of the four seasons. It might can be an idea for me to tell people don't forget to always protect and plant trees throughout the whole year whatever what the season is.

While this one attracts my attention because of the leaves of the tree. I was quite shock about how similar this tree is to my logo in assignment 1 in the sense of the way the leaves is drew and the trunk of the tree. The only difference is that this tree have more leaves than mine in assignment 1....haha...

And below here is some other tree pictures which I downloaded simply just for extra references. I'll aupload them as extra information.

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