Smalley Family Crest - image 1 - student project Smalley Family Crest - image 2 - student project Smalley Family Crest - image 3 - student project Smalley Family Crest - image 4 - student project For this project, I knew I wanted to include Mountain Laurels, roses, Barnegat Light NJ lighthouse, and our dogs. Our current dogs, I wanted to make seem like dragons, and inspiration is visible in my work page.

I started by making a doodle of what some basics I wanted to see and put it on my art board. I knew I wanted the lighthouse to be in the center of the crest. I figured the Mountain Laurels and the roses could go on either side of it. It took me sooooo many tries to get the laurels and roses right. I experimented like crazy, and if I were to go back, I'd be able to do it a lot more efficiently now. (I've never used Adobe Illustrator before.) I had issues when I zoomed out, the laurels and the roses would look blobby, so it was a lot of trouble shooting. Maybe they still look blobby.

I wanted to include the family dogs, so I found some family crests that had dogs in them and used them as inspiration. I wanted the two current family dogs on either side, and our dead dog on top. It took a lot of finagling, but I eventually got the dogs to looks how I wanted them to. It also took lots of placement tests to see how they would look good. I originally had them facing inwards, but changed my mind, as the curves of their backs looks nice with the curve of the shield.

We already had a family crest, and I meant to draw inspiration from it. I thought maybe the font would inspire me, but I just think it's ugly and chose my own font. I wanted a very beachy crest, and I think I achieved that. I am now more confident for future projects. This took me two days though, jeez!!!

Chelsea Smalley

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