Casper Cafferata's Blog

  Estimated time: 2 and a half hours     I enjoyed doing this project a lot more than the coding project, this was a lot more up my speed and a lot easier to figure out how to use and create the shapes I wanted to create. I am a commercial fisherman and spear-fisherman and when I am currently working on becoming a fishing you tuber/influencer, and have some huge collaborations coming up to try and  full-fill my dreams. So I made a picture of my favorite fish to catch on line, a yellowfin tuna.     I have never used Adobe Illustrator before, so it was very fun to try and figure out, and felt a lot more rewarding to make this image. Over all I love how the image turned out, because I used very small font to try and sharpen the shapes up a bit better so you could clearly see what it was, and with the color scheme I used, I think it tied the picture together and it turned out great. The image I took the inspiration from is shown below: The letter I wrote to my future self is listed below:

  Video #1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GzumUieDPY     I think that layers are going to be the hardest thing to conquer for me and I may mess up a few activities trying to layer what I am creating. How ever once I get it down I will use it to create cool images a lot easier seeing as I will be able to keep things in the background and make the main images pop by keeping them on top of everything else. I found it very interesting how there were many little short cuts to do things inside the app, for example hitting 'A' for the direct selection tool in order to manipulate specific points of shapes. Video #2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymBosZVeRc8     I think that all of the little shortcuts, such as holding alt and clicking on a shape and dragging it in order to create another copy, are going to be a challenge to remember, how ever once they are remembered it will make life a lot easier. I will use this in order to create pictures a lot quicker and easier because this way

    My canvas project was created in Dreamweaver using HTML Canvas in order to create a night sky, with a shooting star going past a moon over a city, as you can see the sky scrapers. My image consists of shapes, curves, gradients, and a dark background. I had no inspiration for this photo, it kind of just came to my mind and seemed simple enough for me to do, however my sketch is shown below. The reason I ran with this idea is because I love looking into the sky at night at all of the stars, and always sleeping on a boat over night on a long fishing trip I loved just laying on my bean bag and staring for hours. I went with a cartoony look because it was honestly a lot more simple to do that way, and this took long enough as it is. This was done over the course of two days and took about a total of 7 hours to  finish in total.     This was my first time ever using Dreamweaver, and while it was kind of fun to learn, it was very stressful and very hard to figure out for me. What helped m