Step Of Making

Step 1 :

I move my reference picture to illustrator. Then I live trace the iceberg in the picture to my illustrator.



Step 2 :
I use pen tool to draw the shape of iceberg. The size and the shape of each iceberg is difference.



Step 3 :
I put gradient colour into each iceberg.



Step 4 :
Then I change the opacity of the iceberg which is live trace from the picture to 40%.



Step 5 :
After that, I overlap the live trace iceberg with my own iceberg drawing.



Step 6:
I use brush tool to draw a line for the sea and make the line of the sea look blur.



Step 7 :
I use rectangle tool to draw my sea. After the drawing, i use gradient colour and gradient tool to put on the colour of the sea.



Step 8 :
After finish the colour the sea, then i use again the rectangle tool to draw my sky. After that i use gradient colour to colour the sky.



Step 9 :
After I colour the sky and the sea. I decide to add shadow of the floating iceberg. So, i reflect the iceberg and make the shodow of the iceberg longer a little bit. I also change the opacity of the shadow. After this all, I adjust the shape of the iceberg again and group all of of the point. This is my work of assignment 2.

Assignment2

I going to draw a iceberg floating on the sea....

My References

My FinaL SymboL

Title
Cry Of Ice Caps

Meaning Of Title

No one can understand. They are suffering! This pain is like stabing them deeply, carved a wound into thier heart. They also might shed tears.

Meaning Of Symbol

My symbol is mix up with fire, ice berg, water and wave. The meaning or the message of my symbol is want to tell about global warming on ice caps melting. Increasing temperature in our earth cause ice caps melting. Because of that, animals at north pole and south pole is facing the problem of extinction because they lost their habitats. Other than that, it also want to make people realize that global warming is getting serious and serious if we still do not take any action to solve it and prevent it. So, start from now we should take care of our earth before it is too late and this could all disappear.

Shape
Shape of the fire represent temperature increasing.

Shape of the ice berg, i put below the shape of the fire mean that the temperature is increasing and cause the ice melting.

Shape of the wave, actually is the water that melt from the ice berg. The reason I draw the water become like wave is try to make the water look calmness and angry. It give the message that not satisfy with all what human do which is harmful to environment and cause ice melting.

Shape of a drop of water, is mean that ice melting make the sea level increasing, water have no way to go until it full enough and flow out that will cause flood.

Colour
Colour of the fire, i use gradient colour which is mix with red ,orange and yellow. It represent hot and harmful.

Colour of the ice berg, i use gradient colour which is mix with white and light blue to give the original colour of ice berg. It also represent the mean sacred, pure and clean, but because of global warming, now already become less and less.

Colour of the wave and water, i use the colour deep blue mix with a little of light blue to make it look like wave colour. When got storm rain at the ocean, the wave seem like out of control and the colour of wave is always look dark and deep blue, it give the message angry and not satisfy. The water that drop out i use light blue mix with a little white to show the purity of water which is before global warming.

Step Of Making My SymboL

Step 9
At the last, i adjust all the colour again. Out line of the shape and other else. In order to make it look better.I use warp tool adjust all the shape of the symbol. This is my final view of my symbol.Step 8

After that, i use gradient colour to colour my symbol. I also bring some object to infont, for example fire.Step 7
I combine all the shape by using selection tool. This is the view of my symbol.Step 6

Then, i use pen tool to draw a drop of water flow out from the wave and adjust the shape of the water.

Step 5

I use pen tool to draw the shape of the water that accumulated at the bottom.Step 4

After that, use pen tool draw the water that is melt from the ice berg of the top. I draw the water look like wave because i try to make the water look angry and calmness. The shape of wave is finish.Step 3

I put some line on the ice berg to make it got some shape or figure that similar like ice berg. And here i finish my ice berg drawing by using pen tool.Step 2

Then i draw the shape of the ice berg by using pen tool, i adjust it to make the ice berg look like the ice berg that i sketch.Step 1

First, I move my sketch to illustrator cs3, then i use pen tool to draw the shape of the fire by following my sketch. After that, i adjust my drawing by using pen tool until get the shape of the fire

My Final Sketch For My SymboL

This is my final sketch for my symbol...Round shape represent earth, the fire at the top is represent high temperature and make the ice berg melting..The water flow to the btm of the earth and i make the water look like wave because it more surge and represent angry.. After that water flow out from the earth mean that Ice in our earth is disappearing...Global Warming Is Getting Serious!!!

My Semi Sketch...

I mix up all the fire, ice berg,earth shape and water to make it look like a symbol..But i still wan modify it to make it look more nice...

Early Sketch For Melting Of The Ice Caps

This is my early sketch for my topic. Inside got ice berg, ice, water, earth and fire....

My Reference For My SymboL

All the pictures above is my reference foy my symbol, which is wave, earth, water, fire and ice berg. Later i will put my sketch on blog. Please be wait...Zzz...

Global Warming & Animals - Polar Bear

Global warming, which has raised the temperature in the Canadian Arctic by 4C in the last 50 years, means their habitat is inexorably disappearing.

Global Warming & Animals - Penguins

Global Warming is affecting not just us but all life around the world. It is changing the way animals interact with their environment.

As the north pole's ice vanishes and penguin populations decrease, penguins from the South are growing in number beacause it makes it easier for them to dive and fish.We have to stop global warming right now before its too late, it only takes a few years for these animals to totally disappear.

Ice Melting .....

This year's summer ice cover, represented in white, is slightly more than 1 million square miles smaller than the long-term average, represented by the pink line.

My Topic - Melting Of The Ice Caps

Ice loss from glaciers and ice caps is expected to cause more global sea rise during this century than the massive Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study.

The researchers found that glaciers and ice caps are currently contributing about 60 percent of the world’s ice to the oceans and the rate has been markedly accelerating in the past decade. The contribution is presently about 100 cubic miles of ice annually — a volume nearly equal to the water in Lake Erie — and is rising by about three cubic miles per year.

While warming temperatures will likely cause many small high mountain glaciers in North America and Europe to disappear by the end of the century, large ice fields and ice caps will continue to produce large amounts of meltwater, Meier said. The scientists also believe many “cold” polar glaciers and ice caps will soon warm up enough to begin melting and contributing to sea rise.

Global Warming !!!

The gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution. The temperature of the atmosphere near the earth's surface is warmed through a natural process called the greenhouse effect. Visible, shortwave light comes from the sun to the earth, passing unimpeded through a blanket of thermal, or greenhouse, gases composed largely of water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone. Infrared radiation reflects off the planet's surface toward space but does not easily pass through the thermal blanket. Some of it is trapped and reflected downward, keeping the planet at an average temperature suitable to life, about 60�F (16�C).

Myself

Hello, I'm Wei Heng from Penang. Now, I study FCM alpha year. Actually this is my first blog and still have a lot to learn. I still blur about blogging but i will try to do it as best as I can. Good luck to everyone also.