I think that ‘bloom where you’re planted’ is a very intelligent motto, because I often see people burning themselves out trying to be successful in things that they don’t even really like or have an affinity for. To me, blooming where you’re planted is excelling in what you are passionate about and/or what you’re good at.
In the calligraphy skill building assignment, I learned that calligraphy is not where I will bloom. As someone with already illegible handwriting, it was quite a difficult task to try to write beautifully. I found the pen to be clumsy in my hands and I was not overtly impressed with any of the letters I was producing. However, this may have been because I have no patience and was expecting to be a master calligrapher in 15 minutes, which I know is a flawed mindset. Still, I did my best.
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For the actual project, I ended up returning to a media I am familiar with and ‘blooming’ with skills that I have a talent for. My idea was to make a small little group of planets with sprouts coming out of them, accompanied by the words ‘Bloom Where You Are Planted’. To assist me in making that planets look the way I wanted, I used a tutorial from Spoon Graphics that I will summarize below:
The little sprouts I drew with the pen tool and the stars in the background I made with the symbol sprayer toul on a puckered and bloated circle.
In the calligraphy skill building assignment, I learned that calligraphy is not where I will bloom. As someone with already illegible handwriting, it was quite a difficult task to try to write beautifully. I found the pen to be clumsy in my hands and I was not overtly impressed with any of the letters I was producing. However, this may have been because I have no patience and was expecting to be a master calligrapher in 15 minutes, which I know is a flawed mindset. Still, I did my best.
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For the actual project, I ended up returning to a media I am familiar with and ‘blooming’ with skills that I have a talent for. My idea was to make a small little group of planets with sprouts coming out of them, accompanied by the words ‘Bloom Where You Are Planted’. To assist me in making that planets look the way I wanted, I used a tutorial from Spoon Graphics that I will summarize below:
- Open Adobe Illustrator and create a new project.
- On Layer 1, chose a background of personal preference.
- On Layer two begin making and duplicating uniform rectangles of a different color and line them up vertically with no spaces in between.
- Alter the widths of the rectangles so that there is an oscillation of lengths, like on a DJ’s soundboard
- Unify these rectangles into one shape.
- Use Effects > Stylize > Round Corners to round the corners of the shape
- Make a circle of a lighter or darker color.
- Rotate the original shape so that it sits halfway across the circle diagonally, then hold Shift and click both shapes
- Use the Shape Cutter to delete the portion of the shape not touching the circle
- Select just the circle and hit Effect > Stylize > Outer Glow and create a soft, 100% opacity outer glow for the planet
- Done
The little sprouts I drew with the pen tool and the stars in the background I made with the symbol sprayer toul on a puckered and bloated circle.
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