My Image Editing Project

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.