Tres bien, completion!

Since it's completed, i shall now explain the parts and the tiny parts deep within the whole thing.


The rays of light+the sun;
Red+Yellow;
This is to symbolize the ray of light emitted by the sun as global warming includes the sun burning us all with no mercy thus the whole thing is caused by deforestation itself. It's kind of like showing an effect here due to deforestation. Let me rephrase that, the rays of light shows the effect of deforestation. Yes.

The destroyed trees at the back;
This is to portray the forests that are being cut down mercilessly by people for the sake of our urbanization. I know i should have made all of the trees being chopped off entirely but seriously, if i did that, you can barely see the trees sticking out. So in the end, i settled with those kind of trees, almost chopped off, but at the same time, suffering from the impact.

The two deforested logs;
I added this to give more impact. As to symbolizes the trees that HAVE BEEN cut down, currently dying slowly on the face of the earth. These pretty little things are being cut down for selfish purposes and yet people can't exactly identify the uses for these trees for they are beautiful(shown by the curvy tree markings) and also they help us tremendously.

The three sad trees;
This can be said as the eye-catcher since they're the only thing with faces. The main ones. The suffering ones showing emotion. This is to tell us that even though they're trees, they're unhappy and questioning us why they're being cut off.

The three tree shadows;
This, finally, is to symbolize how happy they should be. The trees can only be seen happy in their shadows because in their shadows, they can never be hurt by the living in reality thus allowing them to live as happy trees in the form of shadows, untouched, not destroyed. It's like a restriction from reality, really

The colours are pretty much symbolizes the trees, it's pretty basic. Green for the leaves, brown for the logs/barks/tree-body. Except for the rays of sun.


Did i explain that well?

Progress shot,

Shall we start with some progress shots of my symbol-of-some-sort, yes?



First step/layer;
I did the background for the whole symbol via using the pen tool.
After that, i added the colours via the paint bucket tool and made the lines transparent/no fill. That way, the lines wouldn't make it look too much of a burden for the whole thing.
I added the sun up there to give a little more impact.


Second step/layer;
I added the trees. Pen tool, paint bucket, TREES!
In this case, i only made two types of trees and proceeded to duplicate(copy+paste for those who don't know) and adjusted their sizes so that it won't look too repetitive.


Third step/layer;
Added the two deforested logs to give even more impact of trees being cut down.
This was done once again via the pen tool and paint bucket with some usage of the eraser tool(in which is sort of troublesome at times but i'm patient enough and still learning).


Fourth step/layer;
Proceeded to add the sad little tree with band aid on it's head.
I did the tree in another new file using the pen tool, ellipse tool(for the eyes), paint bucket tool and the eraser tool.
After that, i copy+pasted the whole thing into the original file and resized it.

Final step/layer;
Finally, added another two trees because one tree looked lonely enough to not give much impact.
More desperate emotional trees being cut down and happy shadows.
The same method used for the trees as i used in step four.
After some adjustments, it's done. In a way. Yes.


After this assignment, remind me to do some gardening.

Some sketches

Here are some sketches i did out of pure boredom just to spend time and at the same time finish my work. Deforestation, once again.
Symbol, much?

Dear-ness, save our trees!

Global Warming and the chosen topic

Based on our main topic for our computer graphics symbol assignment, we were to choose a small topic from the big one and as of that, i have chosen:

Deforestation

Of course, some brief info on Global Warming together with Deforestation itself. Global Warming is defined as a gradual increase in the Earth's average temperature, specifically in the Earth's atmosphere and it's ocean. Due to this, it is believed that it will permanently change the Earth's climate forever.
There are many causes to Global Warming and as i have mentioned, i will be focusing on 'Deforestation'.

Deforestation is a conversion of forested areas to non-forest land. There are many reasons as to why deforestation is happening up until now which are related to money or to people's need to provide for their families. However, the most biggest factor of deforestation is to increase the urban landscape. Because of this, many of the world's forests are being permanently cut down resulting in causing the earth's temperature to creep upwards. This not only brings down the earth but also the entire mankind as the high temperature affects us greatly.

Reference: National Geographic - Deforestation
Live Science - Global Warming