Dave's creative corner

This was by far my favorite assignment so far.  Not many people realize that on average, 22 vets each day take their lives.  Purple and Turquoise are the colors for veterans suicide, which is why I highlighted the important words with those colors....VETERANS YOU STRONG PHONE.  Phone is important because most of the times the vet is at home self medicating, and if they could just put their meds of choice down and pick up the phone and reach out...it could make all the difference.  

 This is a calligram, an image created with just words.  Being a combat veteran, I felt I needed to express myself through my art.  Below are the steps to this final creation.                                                                                           Start with a selfie                                                                                          outline sections               ...

Deciding on just five words to describe myself was pretty difficult.  Seriously, on one hand I am a pretty nice person who will go well out of my way to help most people, then on the other I can be a real $%*hole.  Here are my are my top five :  SUCCESSFUL, FUN, DILIGENT, LEADER AND LOYAL To make matters worse, we had to draw to 25 pictures.  Now I used to be an artist back in the 80s and 90's.  Sketches, paintings, calligraphy, I did it all.  All that stopped in '97 when I joined the Army where there is no need for those skills.  I hadn't drawn in over 23 years, now THAT was the most challenging thing of this assignment.  Think I'm drawing at a 3rd graders level now, lol.  Enjoy!

  I was not understanding this canvas coding at all.  Literally I would wake up watch tutorials, not understand this go to bed and have nightmares about canvas , because I seriously thought I was going to fail this assignment.  I watched the tutorials about a million times...one day watching Professor E. help another student, everything just clicked.  So don't get discouraged, if I can do it so can you.  This took me approximately 24 hours from start to finish, the second time.  I had to do this twice, the first one I did not layer everything properly, so I scrapped it and started fresh...whole lot easier the 2nd time around LOL /// BACKGROUND var bkgdgrd = context.createRadialGradient(mouseX,mouseY,75,mouseX,mouseY,600); bkgdgrd.addColorStop(.05, "rgba(255,192,203,1.00)"); bkgdgrd.addColorStop(.25, "rgba(0,0,255,1.00)"); bkgdgrd.addColorStop(.55, "rgba(0,128,0,1.00)"); bkgdgrd.addColorStop(.55, "rgba(128,0,128,1.00)")...