Blog #5: Pen Tool Cartoon

  Pen Tool Cartoon: Shaggy (from Scooby-Doo)

 

Reference Photo of Shaggy Rogers: 👇👇

 Pen Tool Recreate of Shaggy Rogers: 👇👇

Comments:

To help practice with the pen tool, we were asked to pick a cartoon character and recreate it as a replica of the piece we saw. As well as recreating shaggy, I was able to create the background that fits the style of the character based on the colors and flowers on the Mystery Machine.

Blog 4: Exploration of Tools and Brushes in Illustrator

Portrait Trial:

Comments:

While getting to know illustrator, we were tasked with exploring the tools [and brushes] to create or recreate a picture of a person or character. This is a picture that I creates with the different brush strokes to create this character, however, with the use of the polygon tool, I was able to design his glasses. I created the background with a rectangle that I applied the gradient too, then applied the brush stroke tool again over it to get the checkerboard look.

Blog #3: Illustrator Tests

 Illustrator Tests:

BLEND Tool

 

 

Shapes and Lines

Comments:

After watching the videos provided to the class on the exploration of shapes and tools in Illustartor. I was able to create the robot with the shape tool as well at the lines tools. The work "Hey" was created using the BLEND tool, which I found to be a very creative tool.

Blog #2: Adobe Firefly AI "Text to Image" Generator

 

Three Examples of Text to Image with Adobe Firefly:

 "a bird with sitting on a window eating bird seed"

"Aladdin Genie in a 50's Diner"

"Bill Nye the science guy having tea in Boston at sunset"

 

Comments:

We were asked to explore Adobe Firefly, which is an AI generator that turns your text into an image. Above is my text and the images that it generated based from that. 

Blog #1: Ascii Art and Introductions

A Little About Me:

Hi, My name is Cole Drouin (He/Him). I am from Pelham, a small town in Southern New Hampshire. I attended Pelham High school where I was able to take 13 college classes giving me 38 college credits which allows me to be here at UT as a Sophomore, it is where I met my girlfriend Ashley who is now attending college on the East Coast to be a nurse, and it is where my whole experience really helped me with my future. I took a video production class for two years at Pinkerton Academy in Derry NH which helped me really decide film is what I wanted to do. I have two brothers, one is a senior and the other a sophomore in high school, they both play on the Pelham High School Boys Varsity soccer team where my Dad is the head Coach. I got a job at the local TV station (PTV or Pelham Television) where I was able to work since I was 14 which gave me another view in media and production. I also was a part of the tech team for the Pelham Community Theatre where I started in 2016 as back stage crew, then to props master and stage manager, then in 2021 I started running the Lights, Sound, Video, and Mics until this passed May.

Thoughts About This Class and What I hope to Gain:

Within this class I hope to gain more knowledge of new and emerging media to help better my future. So far, I think that this class will really help and be beneficial towards my career here at UT and beyond. I believe that this class will be a good experience. Today's class was fun as well as interesting and informative, and I know it will only get better.

Ascii Art:

 

 

Comments:

For this, we were asked to introduce ourselves, and then import a picture of us into an Ascii art generator, and this is what was created!