Thomas Hughson's Digital Media Blog

Artist Statement: I choose the Clippers old logo as during their time with this logo, they were my favourite basketball team. I thought that the idea of this logo was very simple, and would be a great way to start using illustrator and using different skills. The parts I found easy was the drawing of the basketball. Doing the angles of the ball after practice in class made it clear about how to make the lines smooth and round. This is the part I enjoyed the most and with the next part  will create something similar to this. The nest step was adding the text. At first I didn't know what to put in the text, but putting the team on it was an easy move. Other texts are some facts and old players that made this team what it is today. What i struggled with was the letters. Firstly, making them identical to that of the original was tough. But the hardest part was figuring out how to clear the color from inside the letters 'P' and 'R'. I'm sure there is an eas...

My Canvas Project started off with the idea of Flames and Dice. Obviously, through trail and error, this idea changed into something more focused in on the flames, as the Dice was(being honest) too difficult to do in 3D format. The image is an honest reflection of why I love Tampa. The flames represent the heat of Florida, which I love! The stars and moon are the beautiful nights that we have here. If I was doing it again, I would've loved to add lightning as thats also a big part of living here. Overall this project took me 8 hours to complete, with most of the time being taken up through my errors. The flames were my favorite to work on, with the different (x,y) points I used to make it look(somewhat) realistic. The stars in the background were actually hard to comprehend. Finding out how to move them around my canvas took some time. I tried to keep all the colors simple to reflect that my canvas is a simple piece. If I were to do this project again, I would've like...