Blog Feed

When I first chose my theme for my project I was not sure if I was going to be able to pull it off. I created this piece of artwork because it represents my favorite animal and my zodiac symbol. I thought that my finished piece was going to be how I imagined it but it came out totally different. Through the process of making the piece I could start to see that it was not turning out the way I wanted it to so that is when I started to come up with the idea to hide the Lion paw print in the painting so that when people see it they can search for it. Finishing the project I wanted to do something to capture people’s attention so I used newspaper and a red background to make the piece be noticeable and so far it has caught my classmates attention.

In the past I have done projects where I had to hide a person, place, or thing in the painting and they all came out great. Coming up with an idea for this project was difficult but I started by figuring out what i was going to hide in the painting, then I used newspaper, markers, crayons, and paint to hide the object. My art piece could inspire others to do a mixed media project or to just try a mixed media project and also show them that you do not just have to use crayons or paint to make art you can use other objects to. Time management is very important because you need to know when you will be able to finish a certain part of the art piece and being organized is important so that when you start your piece you know where everything is. I had fun doing this project I just wish it would have came out better.

• Sources and inspiration for your images. Include links if applicable.

http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/americanhorrorstory/images/5/53/Roanoke_House_exterior01.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160917184827

I created this art piece because i do better art with using paint and it was a challenge for me to only use three colors. My vision was to make hot and cold so one side was winter and the other side was summer. I feel like they know there is two different perspectives to my drawing based on the colors. I think i achieved at making the most colors out of only three colors. It relates to the color wheel because we made many colors using primary colors. The first thing i did when making this artwork that i made was the color mixing board with all the colors that can be made from blue white and red(which were the colors i used for this project. I don't think this art really reflects anything on my life. A technique that you can use is to know that even the littlest drop of a color can change the color that you are mixing or trying to make.

The project that I chose was image editing. For this project, you had to edit an image to tell a story or to convey a message. For my own project, I chose to tell a story about myself on how I view my physical appearance as. When completing this project, I wanted to learn how to better my previous attempts of image editing using different tools. When I first started this project, I was trying to figure out what images I wanted to use and what message I wanted to convey. I honestly changed my original  images because my original images that I was gonna use didn’t have a clear message. The newer images that I choose telled a story to example the conflicting feeling on how I myself as beautiful.  Then I started working on an online photo editor (Pixlir) and I struggled to get some things to work. However, I soon started to get the hang of the tools after I started to put my image together.Some of my successes was when I was able to blend the images well together and simply knowing how to edit certain images instead of the whole image. My failures were simply messing up and deleting the entire image that I made. It wasn’t difficult to overcome, so I simply just stop making this mistake. I learned how to blend and blur other images into each other which I found to be very helpful for me. The reason why is because when I blend the images well, it makes that image look like it was always apart of the original image.I learned that I have a good habit of learning things quickly and understanding them when it comes to technology and I felt like it showed through this project that I have did.

I would want to use more of my own images that I have taken for image editing than having to go through all the troubles of finding copyright free images to use. I can only tell them not to get frustrated when something doesn’t go their way when editing. Trust me, there's a reason why they created the undo button.This project inspired me to try more image editing because I found this project really fun to do and to create.I honestly don’t believe that their was a certain tool that really helped me to convey this message. The only thing that I can think of would be the merge tool because it helps make everything look like one image. I would also say the layers tool really helped me out because if I messed up something when editing that’s far from repair, I can simply delete that layer instead of redoing the whole idea.

Proper Citation down below:

http://cyclops-queen.deviantart.com/

http://www.wallquotes.com/vinyl-wall-quotes/inspirational/true-beauty-wall-quotes-decal

http://wdwparksgal-stock.deviantart.com/art/Purple-Moon-Darker-459622417

http://dbszabo1.deviantart.com/art/misc-bg-element-png-311232304

Project Statement

For my project, I decided to edit two drawings that I created into something comical. My project pokes fun of the election without belittling anyone’s opinion on who should win, because if a joke offends a large amount of people, then it isn’t considered funny. I made two of my characters either a Trump supporter or a Hillary supporter. The whole point of the project is to create a cartoon representation of the election, but at the same time create a smirk because of the facial expressions of both characters.

What i did to achieve this goal was through a number of programs. I first used Polarr for filters on both characters. For the Trump supporter I used a warm purplish color because the shade of the color was suppose to complement the dull facial expression of the character. For the Hillary supporter, I chose a bright filter which complements the happy facial expression that the supporter is showing. I wanted to make the facial expressions really pop out since I wanted it to be comical.

After I was finished the filtering I used the adjustment tool from Polarr to change the angle of the Trump supporter character to make it seem like a cartoonish scene where the character pops in from the side of the screen. Then I used Paint Tool Sai for almost everything else. The magic wand allowed me to cut out the image from the original image and make it have a transparent background. I used layers to overlap images. I lowered the opacity for the second image’s “I’m with her” text to 70 since it had a glaring background. I then went to a text editor to add a logo to the first character’s shirt then changed the perspective of the text to fit around the shirt and a speech bubble to the second character.

There were some ups and downs for my project, but I got through it. Some failures was using the blur tool on Polarr,. I tried everything and it didn’t work. That’s what lead for me to use Paint tool sai. I learned more about Paint tool sai than I knew when I first got it. I didn’t know I could use the magic wand to copy the image. I would definitely use Pixlr to add my drawings, because it changes any picture to transparent and that would help me put a watermark on my art so people wouldn’t steal it. I honestly would use Pixlr again in the future while drawing, due to it having an easy learning curve. The toolbar is easy to read and to use. The only thing on Pixlr I just didn’t like the magic wand tool. I found Paint tool sai’s magic tool easier to use because I can color in whatever I want to copy or fill. My future goal is to learn how to PhotoshopCC so I can draw.

For this project we had to create a road sign that represents either a real or fictional situation or directions. We were not the able to describe what is happening on the road sign but just phrases. For example like “Beware” or “Stop”. We had to use images and or symbols to convey our message.  We did this project to convey our creation. My goals for this project was to create something that I see frequently in the scary movies. I wanted to create a beware sign. So in the my creative piece I wanted to car and a person in front of them. My message is to beware of people running in front of your car in the middle of the night asking for help. I learned that throughout this project it’s hard coming up with a sign and sketching the sign. The website that I used was pretty hard. So I had a hard time looking for a website to design my road sign, but I ended up using pixlr.com, I found it pretty hard to use. With the design I had time as well. At first I wanted to make a person running through the forest but it was hard to create that so I ended up with doing the car and someone in front of them. The failures that I had was getting a website to use. I found it difficult to create what I had in mind with the tools they had. What I learned about myself is that I can achieve something even though it's hard for me at first. That I can overcome it. If I was able to do this project again I wouldn’t do anything different.

My project was focused around the idea of Image Editing. I hoped to learn how image editing works and how images can be changed in the media to make us see different things.

First we chose an image, I chose a picture of a cheetah. Then we went to work on editing. I chose to try to create another cheetah from scratch and pieces of the other cheetah. Working with Pixlr was the hardest thing I did with this project. It wasn’t easy to use and creating different layers to edit the cheetah with this application. I learned that over editing an image can happen, this leads to the image being overexposed or not looking even close to the original image. I learned that I need to sometimes get more realistic with these expectations of myself. I think I set goals that are too high sometimes. I would manage my time better.I would say to choose a simple image to start because it’s easier to edit.

For my Q2 benchmark I chose to do A Graphic design project. For this project you had to create a road sign that represents a situation that is real or fictional. The road sign should have words on it the message your are trying to convey has to be told through the image. The message I have for my road sign is ‘’Thinking outside the box’’.  When doing this project I found it very hard to do because Instead of using icons to create our sign we had to basically make it from scratch using different shapes to make what we want. For example a person, you would have to use lines, circles and rectangles. I also found it difficult to move the shapes and making them the same size to look neat. The failures I had on the project was trying to making a person. My success me able  to create a image without words and people understand the message behind the image.

I made my project with the intent to showcase the skills that me and my friends have at the game Super Smash Brother Melee for the Nintendo GameCube.I hoped to learn how to edit videos and make cool combo videos like the ones on YouTube. Many of the difficulties that I have encountered throughout the creation of this video was making the combo finishers match up with the music and it’s cues. It was also pretty hard choosing the music since there are many options to choose from. Making this combo video has taught me how to cut and edit specific clips that would assist in the quality of the combo video. I also learned that the video itself wasn’t a chore because the topic that I choose was something that I’m very passionate about so it kept the drive there.If I were to give any tips it would be to not give up and to always look for ways to improve upon the project. My next project will probably be another combo video or 3D modeling since it seems pretty interesting. The music that I chose to use was Captain America’s theme from Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter and I choose to use this because I like his theme and it’s a pretty epic theme. I used Windows Movie Maker and this tool helped me make the combo video because the tools within the application are easy to use and understand. It’s a basic application that’s easy to grasp so that made the process easier and the only hard part was getting the footage to edit.

For my Project I did 3d modeling. I came in hoping I could learn a lot about 3d modeling and how I can use it more often on my own accord. My project basically based on my love for cars. S I chose to 3d model a car which happened to be a Ferrari F1 super vehicle. In order to complete my project I watched a numerous amount of tutorials. I first messed around with the tools to get a grip on things after that I started creating my project using script. I ended up learning how to use script to build stuff and also what materials would make 3d models look smoother. I learned that I Am very enthusiastic about 3d modeling due to my actions. Such as building my 3d model in under a week and improving it making it fit my description. If I was to due this project all over again one thing is due differently is not use script and try building it only using the coordinates and materials so basically just from scratch. Well a tip for those who are planning on doing this project if you feel as though the way to create a 3d model is hard remember that there are multiple ways to create a project. This project inspired me to do animation with 3d modeling or the 3d models I made. The tools I used helped deliver my message was clara.io and scripting. This helped me a ton it made my message clear and fun. This was very fast and easy to make it showed my love for cars in a bright and elaborate way.

Joelle Putro

Image editing project

1/6/17

 My project is image editing. It’s a photo of a homeless woman staring at a Christmas gift. It is suppose to symbolize how homeless people have a hard time around the holidays.

I got a picture of a homeless woman and a picture of a Christmas gift. I cut out the Christmas gift and merged it into the photo of the homeless woman. Then i put a filter on the photo to make it all the same color.

 I was confused on how to merge the photos at first but then I watched a tutorial and figured it out. Using the tutorials I learned how to merge photos and work using pixlr.

I also learned that I’m good at figuring things out using the resources I have and I don’t get frustrated easily.

 If I were to do this project over I would add more to it and give it more meaning and depth.

The advice I would give to people that are going to attempt this project is to watch tutorials when they get stuck. This project inspired me to merge more photos to spread awareness of issues. It gets the point across in a creative way.

 The photos I used were non copyright. Pixlr made it very easy for me to get my point across and after watching tutorials it was very simple to use. It allowed me to merge the photos and make it look like the gift was really in the photo.

My project that I chose to do for Q2 is computer sciences. So basically what we did was to do some of the most basic coding using the kernel program. What that is to explain it is a dog that move on a grid and throughout the entire lessons that I did taught me to do things like move around pick things up make it simpler for me to do an action instead of having to write out a very long codes for something that can be solved very easily. Something that I had a problem with in this project is that during some of the lessons I had to figure out what to do for mobile worlds but I couldn’t quite figure out what I needed to do until I got to the lesson that explained what I had to do. If I were to give anyone any type of advice on this I would say that you should alway try to talk to people who are also doing what you are. Don't worry you will be able to work on it later and also later lesson will help you to complete the lesson that you have problems with. So have fun with it is all I am trying to say and never give up. Terrance out M8's.