Elevator Speech

Elevator Speech

Portfolio

My name is Anthony Rigoni and I am currently an undergraduate student of Saint Xavier University. I am also an art major. In this portfolio that I have made, you will have an inside look at how I created my projects from sketches to digital illustrations. This portfolio serves as a dedication to how hard I worked on my projects using Adobe Illustrator. In addition, you will also get a little behind the scenes look of how I created my portfolio using Adobe InDesign.

The first project that I will be talking about is the Idiom Illustration project. To start off, I carefully chose nine idioms and drew them in my sketchbook. I picked the Cat Nap Idiom sketch as my final choice for the Idiom Illustration. I created an outline of my Idiom Illustration using the pen tool and the basic shapes tool on Adobe Illustrator. I also had to make sure that I used less anchor points to create the shapes. I looked up the color wheel and colored the appropriate variations using the fill tool.

The second project that I will discuss is the Cover and Profile project. I used a friend's phone to take selfies and chose the one you're seeing right now. I sketched the lights, mid-tones and shadows of this selfie separately. I used the pen tool to draw the outlines on Adobe Illustrator. I then created six art boards and colored the appropriate variations in each art board. I designed a cover as part of my project. I repeated the same process I talked about earlier for the additional art boards of my profile drawings. I combined the Profile and Cover art illustrations together and put together a profile using the Facebook template.

The last project I will describe is the Typography and Poster project. I chose a top hat and created five sketches of it. I also sketched the lights, mid-tones and shadows of the top hat separately. I created outlines of my top hat using the pen tool. I typed out the words "top hat black", created outlines for each letter and ungrouped them so that they will fit into the top hat. I added gradient effects to the top hat shapes. I designed illustrations of the tie, the cane and the gloves for my poster. Finally, I put them altogether for the poster portion of my project and added stars to give my poster a classy look.

In terms of my portfolio, I used Adobe Indesign for my portfolio. The reason why I have chosen the gray color for the pages of my portfolio is because I want you to focus on not the design of the pages, but on the text and images. After I added images on each page of my portfolio, I typed out descriptions of my progress. I then made sure that the descriptions are arranged correctly and put them into black boxes so that you will be able to understand the descriptions of my artwork.

In conclusion, when I took this course throughout this semester, it helped me get used to using Adobe Illustrator. Of course, I would like to thank Professor Matusek for giving me some very helpful advice with each project. Without her guidance, I wouldn't know what to do next with my projects. I certainly hope you will enjoy reading this portfolio as I enjoyed working on my projects during this semester.

Myself

What I liked about doing this portfolio is that I had some experience making a portfolio in my previous semester. It was quite easy to make the pages match the same color with the master page tool. In addition, it was also easy to insert the texts and images on the pages on  my portfolio.

What I didn't like about this portfolio is how I have to arrange the images and texts. I had to take extra precaution to make sure that the arrangement doesn't look asymmetrical or off of the pages. I also had to go through the trouble to make sure that the images and text are the correct sizes and shapes or they won't be able to look good on my portfolio.