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My 3D project shows a home. I decided to design that because I feel as though that is where everyone feels or should feel comfortable there. Houses come in many different designs but I chose this one because I like the way it looks. At first, I had to figure out how to use Tinkercad and it’s different tools. I was required to complete three lessons that was given to me on the Tinkercad website. One of my failures was scaling the car and garage. The car was way too big to ever fit in the garage so I had to make the car smaller. I didn’t have any other failures, other things were tweaks to make the design look better. I learned that making a design on any website or designing program is not simple. There is a lot of measuring and you can never make your design perfect on your first try. You will need to edit and tweak some things to make it look nice in your eyes and other people’s eyes. I learned that I tend to not try my hardest when I think a project is simple or not complex. I misunderstood the level of difficulty of this project and didn’t try my best with the design or with the process of this project. I would spend more time actually perfecting the design if I was able to re-do this project. That would give me the time to be more creative with my design and make it look way better. I would advise that no one should underestimate this project, especially if you are working on 3D modeling. This project didn’t give me any inspiration, it just showed me what it’s like to work on a project that has to do with computer modelling. This tool let me show visually that you should always feel comfortable at home or know that there is no place like home. I designed a home so the thought of someone being comfortable at their own home. Hopefully this inspired them to design their very own house and whenever they need to make themselves feel comfortable, they look at their design.

Keya Ghosh

1/11/2017

1. Reflection:

1. Provide a summary of the contents of your video and a rationale for why YOU chose this topic, in paragraph form.

• I chose this topic because In philly has a lot’s of water pollution. The main issue for our project to relate back to this topic, I researched different issues that I thought would inspire me to educate the world on also that similar to what I did with the Dakota Access Pipeline. I decided that I would discuss an issue with something that is more important to our life everyday, which was water. My group and I focused on the Delaware River as it runs through Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The issue of water pollution pertained to me because there are people who do activities in this water such as rowing, and the water which contains toxins, and bacteria can splash on them, and then they often will just get in their car with the wet clothes from rowing, and contaminate their car with bacteria, and they're unaware of it.

2. Provide a reflection on how you contributed to the project and the role you played in the group.

• I contributed to the project and the role that I  played in our group was the explaining. Also I helped to make our script and do the organized about problems on the area for that we talking about Delaware river.

3. What did you do well and what could you have done differently?

• I am consider to think that what I did well, I believe that I did well with some explanation part of our script. I feel I could have done my video recording  instance, only voice-over because of the camera. I hope that I could spoke well enough and loud in to my voiceover.

4. What was the most meaningful part of the experience of creating the PSA?

• The most meaningful part of the creating the PSA is that I was able to band together with our group of people who have different abilities, as well as learn more about a topic that I would have make over in the news. I hope that the right people come in contact with the video my group members and I created, and learn a lot about it. I was also able to incorporate prior knowledge of water issues into the PSA which made it even the more meaningful for me.

2. Post the link to your blog on Canvas by the due date and also share in your social media platform of choice!

• https://youtu.be/9JHcbKK1tp0

Well my project goal was to make a 3D model of my favorite anime characters mask which is right there ← but that ended up being too much of a challenge because I couldn't properly make it or find a file to import the image. So I ended up making a Lamborghini.

So my process was that I started with Clara.io. At first I tried to make it with just the objects you can use in Clara. But then I found out that would be almost impossible to make it out of the objects. So we tried to find a file but it wouldn't work so I ended up finding a Lamborghini file which worked.

So as explained multiple time my failure was that I couldn't get the mask to work what so ever. So the way i worked around this was i pretty much had to do the entire project again. And I ended up with something that wasn't horrible but still wasn't what i originally wanted.

Well i found how to import and export files and run Clara.io the way its supposed to be run.

I would look up what type of files before deciding what to do for my project. Then, I would be able to decide knowing what I can and can’t do. Also I could meet everything when needed.

This project has inspired me to find out how to use 3D modeling on a larger screen.

Well it hindered my ability because of the fact that I couldn't get my mask to work in Clara.io.

In quarter 2, I decided to go above my normal standards. I wanted to be able to explore outside of my comfort zone and what I am usually use to. I wanted to do something that I can relate a lot to and that I knew would be challenging for me. Art is something that your suppose to express yourself through and that definitely conveys my project completely. Makeup is one of the most expressful arts to me. You can really do what you want when doing makeup; you can really make it your own. Although I know I wouldn’t of been able to use actual makeup as a project, I decided to incorporate some things and make it seem like a made up face. In this project I used glitter, different pencils shades (light shading and dark shading) to create actual features, an outliner pen and I even incorporated my own highlighting swatch.

I feel like my work conveys the idea that makeup can be anything you want it to be. Makeup something that is suppose to be one thing and there isn’t any right way how to do it. I definitely achieved that goal through this piece of work because it shows the unique and powerful vibes that makeup gives off. This piece of art is a lot different from the past projects I have worked on because I opened my mind to a lot more this time. Instead of going off of people I already know, I looked into different MUA’s such as Carli Bybel and Jeffree Star to get an inspiration. They triggered my more dramatic looking part of my project.

My piece of art reflects upon my daily life and experiences because I am very into makeup. On the weekends, when I go out or when people ask me, I do makeup. I get very into it and I kind of make it my own thing. It's something that I love to do and it is a way that I express my bubbly personality. Being able to do your eyebrows, eyeliner, eyeshadow and many more makeup world tactics takes a lot of time and patient in which I incorporated into my project. It includes a lot of thin lines, blending, mixing and perfection all in which I do on a daily basis while doing my makeup! I also like trying new things so I decided to put a little shading on the lip color as well.

I have created this art piece because I felt that the light and dark contrast of the design would stand out and speak for the picture. My overall vision was to create an image of how how the year wrapped up. I am hoping that the viewers see that I am displaying various lines textures and shades in my drawing.I feel like I achieved great lines and different textures from how i thought it was going to come out. My current work relates to my previous work because of all the different materials I had to use to bring the drawing out. It was definitely cool to work with the light and dark pencils and the charcoal sticks and pencils. Also erasing and lightly shading with the regular pencils and the gum erasers held mold the design, creating the was but is not there anymore shade.

I decided to choose this project because I already knew what I wanted to draw beforehand. I was going to make a drawing of the Curry Ones. I communicates that I like Stephen Curry and his sneakers. I achieved learning to make drawing more realistic. I learned how to make and give the sneaker texture to make it more realistic. My current work doesn’t relate too my past work because I didn’t draw an image I just painted. I think an artist that my work related too is Claire Tabouret. She is detailed in her work and I feel like I am to. First I looked for the image that I wanted. After that I started to create the image by tracing the body then I filled in the details by myself. My only inspiration for this drawing is basketball. This image reflects my life and my world because basketball is both of those for me. The art work could inspire people too make drawings like mines. I don’t really have a teqnique I just trace the bodies then fill in the details. In conclusion what inspired me too make this image is my love for basketball. I made this image after my favorite basketball player and his sneakers. My method was too trace the body and fill in the details and it worked for me.

For my quarter two project I decided to do the image design project. From this project I hope to learn how to better my image editing skills. Before I knew a little bit about editing images. Only because when I wanted to post a picture on social media depending on the image I would add a filter and such. When doing things of that nature I would use an image editing app called PicsArt. But, when doing this project I learned about a new software called Pixlr. At first it was challenging because I never used it before. After playing around with it I taught myself how to merge images and I thought that was cool. Learning how to take two images to make a completely new one.

When first starting this project I had trouble. So to start off I had to select the images I wanted to edit. That’s where I had some trouble. I had trouble because it was hard to find a copyright free image.  Next, I had to find a software to edit my photos I chose.

My success would be creating three different images in one day. Also, learning how to use a new program on my own. One major failure would be not turning my checkpoints in on time. I think i would overcome this by doing checkpoints ahead of time instead of the last moment.

The biggest thing I learned was learning how to merge images and blurring certain areas of the images. I learned that I have a very keen eye for abstract art. If I had to do this project differently I would stop trying to crm everything in at one time. I would do things in a time consuming matter. Don’t be scared to make mistake and be creative! It inspired me to edit more images on my spare time. Other than the images which is copyright free then no. There is no Proper citations for any work that isn’t mines. I really didn’t have a message to convey. But, this project did give me the ability to get a better understanding of image editing.

Tiffany Irick

January 20, 2017

Art

I have created this work because I wanted to create a african Piece with colors I never seen those art pieces done with.  I was hoping to create a defined painting of an african woman. I what to achieve a strong look with the three colors I used. I think that my work communicates strength, elegancy and struggle. I think I achieved my outline, but I don't think i achieve the sharpness and definisce that I wanted my painting to have. My current work relates to my previous work because I wanted it to be an african portrait. I usually paint african related pieces.

I think that me and the artist Wang Yuping has more of a connection than a lot of other artist. We both drew pictures of people that was on the realistic side. I believe Wang Yuping has more definition in his work and it's way more realistic but I feel like we connected on the idea levels.

The first thing that I did was sketch out my person that I was going to paint. Then I started to paint my person. I started to do dots but I figured that I was not going to finished. Therefore, I just finished my piece with just paint strokes no dots. Include links if applicable. I seen this painting of a black woman on south street. She was filled with color. I thoughts about that picture and I knew that I could only use three colors for the project. Therefor I made it my own. At the time I did not think to take a picture of the painting but I wish I did. This work I have created shows the hardship, strength and dedication that a black woman has. I believe that the painting reflects on my community in a positive way.My work can influence young artist to step out of their boundaries and try new things. Also my work can influence young black girls to be strong. With my artwork I have created it's important to use a stroking technique so that If you want the brush lines to be defined or soft. It matters to use a specific technique so portray your image.

For this project I tried to do pointillism but I did not complete that task. I learned that pointillism is very time consuming and you need specific paint brushes for the sizes you want your dots to come out in.

For my project, I chose image editing.  I originally was going to a picture of a door in a dark room with a beautiful picture on the other side. That was really hard to figure out how to do.  I watched videos but I could not figure out how to use it on Pixlr.  A success I had with this project is just learning how to use image editing websites, it was something I have never done before.  A failure I had with this project was learning how to crop pictures into another picture.  Some skills I learned from doing this project is some of the tools used in image editing.  An example of this is changing the entire color of the object.  Something I learned about myself with completing this project is that this is not something I really enjoy doing.  It was cool to explore the website and play around with the pic but technology/photo editing is not my strong suit.  I learned to have more patience with working with this stuff even when it gets hard.  If I were to do this project again I would learn more about the website and how to work it better.  I feel like I would of had a better outcome in the end.  Some tips I have for someone completing the project is make sure you watch enough tutorials to understand what website you are using to edit your image.  This project has inspired me to improve my photo editing skills in the future.  The website did not necessarily help with the message of my pic, but add more details to the pic.  

I choose to do value, line, and texture drawing because I am a fan of free drawing anything that comes to mind. one my favorite animal is a chimpanzee, one reason why I like chimpanzees is their similarity to humans. My overall vision of my drawing was chimpanzee can do just as many things humans can do, for example, walk on two feet, dress up, and etc. The drawing shows a chimpanzee in a suit taking a picture on an iPhone, I wanted to show a sense a humor in my drawing to make a viewer giggle or laugh. The process of my art drawing all started with a  movie call Planet of the apes, the movie shows an ape name Caesar growing up to be super intelligent and started to develop human characteristics, for example, he dresses, talks, and have a family.  My idea for my drawing was an ape with human qualities.  My work can influence others by thinking outside the box and being open to draw whatever they put their mind too. My work now compare to my previous is completely different, I notice some improvement over the last two months, a new tool I'll use was pencil shading. Pencil shading is twenty different types of pencils you can use to draw light, medium, or dark. Something I think I need to work on differently in the future is my time management Overall I am happy with my art project, I hope to influence people to draw whatever they put their mind too.

For my project I did a Linoleum cut this was my first time doing this project and I will admit it was very complicated to do but it was a fun project to do. I decided to create this project because it seem like it would be interesting and i honestly wanted to see if i could pull it off.  I also wanted to see if i would be able to curve it correctly. My overall vision of the work was to make my print look like it was a turtle in swimming in the water. That’s what i would have liked to communicate to the viewers also.

I don't think i did a good job trying to communicate that to the viewers because along the way i made a couple of permanent mistakes. In my opinion the only thing that the viewers might see is the water thats behind the turtle and a half turtle. I did a bad job the head of the turtle and the shell that was the most complicated part of the drawing the print. I feel like I did a good job doing the drawing the print in pencil. Although i made a lot of mistakes on the project I think the thing i achieved the best was actually still finishing the project despite all the mistakes and it still looked a little close to the picture i was trying to create. That's how my previous work is also, even if i make a couple mistakes designing the project I still finish my project and it always comes out looking close to the design i based my project off of.

The process I had to go through to create this project is first I had to draw my design on a my print on a white piece of paper first to show how i would like my print to look. Second I had to copy my print onto the linoleum cut with a black sharpie. Next I had to use cutting tools to carve  out the design. Then I had to use the printing ink and the rolling tools to roll the ink on the linoleum cut. Lastly i put the linoleum cut on a white piece of paper so that it could print and I was finish.

I created the linoleum cut because I simply wanted to try something different. I felt like it was something I didn’t think I could do so I wanted to try it. I wanted to create an image that people could make up their own story from. It is an image people can interpret in their own way. I think people would mostly see it as something spooky. Something you would see in a cartoon movie where kids are  trick or treating on a Halloween night and go into a forest for more of an adventure. Doing this project I think I created more of an imaginative mind for myself. I feel like my work doesn’t relate to my previous work because I feel like my previous work wasn’t much creative. I think my art relates more to David Hockney art because he did a lot of landscape art with painting of trees, woods, and towns with farms land. I feel like that is the type of art I was working towards.

Linoleum cut process was easy. First I had to sketch out an idea of what I wanted to crave and I had to make sure the image would be able to fit on the linoleum so that was challenging. After sketching the picture I had to print it on the linoleum using carbon paper. When it printed on the linoleum I then had to go over the image a black sharpie marker. Then I had to heat up the linoleum with a iron so that it would be easy to crave. The I began to carve the part of my image that wasn’t gone over with the sharpie. After I was finish craving I then had to print my image on a piece of paper using ink and a roller to roll the ink over my image so that it will print of the paper.

In my Art class each student got an opportunity to design their own project. We were given options from different varieties of  Art pieces that we had to choose one. I chose the value line and texture drawing because I’m more comfortable with that type of Artwork and I think it would be easier for me.

When I started brainstorming I knew that I wanted to draw the face of an Animal, so I decided to draw the face of a dog, but it wasn’t coming out how I wanted it to and I later changed my mind to draw the face of a Lion.

I drew a Lion, because Lions are a very strong and fears specy. I’ve always told myself that I have the heart of a Lion, but I want when people look at this art work they find their own meaning, because this is art and different individuals should be able to have their own insight.

What I really like about this drawing is the eyes, I feel like the eyes gives it a realistic look even though it doesn’t look a 100% real,because I did have some problems with the hair and the background, but otherwise from that I think the facial structure was somewhat good enough.

Artist Statement

When I was in the process of choosing what type of Multi Media I wanted to create I wanted to chose something that showed who I was in a way and something that would challenge me. I looked through the materials I had and saw clay. I chose to do clay because is a very hard material to mess with for multiple reason. Once I had my material I started to think about what I wanted to make. I knew I wanted it to relate to me in some way so I decided to do something with the ocean. I looked through animals and then picked to do a manatee. As I drew a sketch of what I wanted to sculpture to look like I wanted it to show what a manatee looks like and its environment. I believe that with my sculpture the view can clearly tell the message in the sculpture and what animal it is. While I made my sculpture I got to understand how clay works. My work fits into contemporary art because it's abstract and different.

To make my project I use basic shapes like circles and manipulate them into a different shape. I molded my clay and use tools to smooth it out and to create other textures. . I got my inspiration for this project by looking up pictures of manatees and other sculptures of manatees. These are some pictures that I got inspiration from. Picture 1,  Picture 2, Picture 3, Picture 4. I think that my art relates to the world we live in because with global warming becoming a big concern and animals becoming endangered i think my sculpture reminds people of the beauty in these animals.

The project choice I choose to do for my Q2 benchmark was Value line and Texture Drawing. I decided to choose this because I wanted to create an image that uses various techniques that would make my drawing realistic. When thinking about doing this project I had many different vision and ideas of what I wanted to do. I had did 2 rough draft of sample drawings I wanted to do. The first idea I had, was for me to do a one point perspective drawing of my name. The second Idea I had was to do a necker cube illusion. The reason why I didn’t go through with those ideas was because I didn’t like how the drawing turned out. I finally then decided, that I wanted to draw a human skull because when I was looking up realistic human skull drawings, I like what I saw and I decided I wanted to make a skull drawing. I think my work communicate to the viewer because of realistic aspect of the drawing. I think I achieved the realist aspect of the skull drawing. My current work relates to my previous work because I have done a value line and texture drawing in the 9 th grade. We had did still life drawings.

I believe my work fits in with contemporary art because of portraiture art work. When I looked at artwork on artsy.com I saw portraiture and when i had clikced on it, I saw that it was portaits and relaistic drawlings  that looked simlair to my darwling. When I finally decided to draw a skull for my benchmark, I had went online to looked up different skull ideas I could draw. When I found the one I thought I could replicate, I went on youtube to see different examples on how to draw a skull. I also watched some drawing videos about shading. When I had got an idea of what I wanted to draw a had started to draw my rough draft  to see how the skull would turn out. After I was done my rough draft I pretty pleased with what I had. However when I was working on my final drawing I realised that something was missing that would make my skull different from the skulls I saw on the internet. I then decided to add bones inside the skull mouth to make it look like a pirate flag symbol.My inspiration came from google because I was looking up different ideas for realistic drawing and I saw a skull which I thought was pretty nice. My work could have an impact on the world by showing people they can and try new things like I did when completing this project. My work could influence people to step out their comfort zone and try new drawing techniques. A certain technique I used in my drawing was the shading. When shading in the skull it gave it more value and realism to it which I think is really cool. I learn how to make different textures with a pencil and how to shade had realism to the drawing.

We wanted to do something that is similar to the project choices mixed with something we really like to do.  Our overall vision for the work is to mix and older style of artwork with a newer style of art. Henna is an older cultural art and it is very detailed. Graffiti style lettering is a very new form of art. When you put these two together it creates something new that you rarely see. The message that we are trying to send is that nothing should be stuck in it’s category and trying new combinations can turn out well. We made a unique artwork and that is not seen a lot. Practicing on the henna designs and also the lettering help us a lot. I like working with 3-D art and street art and this is mixed with a little of both. Our artwork is similar to  ZADIE XA because the  work is very detailed. First we sketched out where we would do my henna designs and then I started with a little flower into a big henna designs over all the buildings. I make a sketch in my book then I drew it on the canvas. I colored it in with acrylic markers and went over it again with another layer of acrylic paint. Our work shows Philadelphia which is the city we live in.  It could make different artists get together and collaborate to make new ideas. Without shading the lettering wouldn’t look the same. The shading makes the letters 3-D. It it was all white it would be very hard to read and look very flat and basic. I learned to go back over my paintings with layers of paint which is something I didn’t do before. I hope everyone likes our art work.

Henna Design by Shirin Akhter

Graffiti Lettering by Cyrus Foster

Abdulomar Tucker

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To begin, I created a linoleum cut wolf because that's my favorite animal and I wanted to make an animal.  After deciding that I focused on my vision for the work. I wanted to make a wolf with a moon in the back. I think my work would communicate deep thinking and even appreciation for a wolf in it’s glory. With this, I will be able to really capture this wolf. This project relates to my other projects in which the ideas come rather spontaneously. The original strokes I put into my artwork is the same as well. After reviewing some contemporary art, I noticed that my artwork is very similar to Wolfgang Tillmans. Wolfgang and I tend to see beauty in the little things and things people would really overlook. Things that would be taken for granted and where others don’t see the light in something. His artwork is also spontaneous as it captures either current emotions or moments in life. When creating this project, I had looked at some wildlife pictures of Wolves. I just decided to add a moon behind it to make it more special. This project doesn’t reflect my own life;however, the wolf in a multiple ways reflect some things i instill in myself and what I see in the world. Like when chasing a goal , I imagine being as serious and making every move towards that goal as purposeful as a wolf hunting to feed the pack. I also like what the wolf represents such as integrity and bravery. I feel as though my work can influence people to take some valuable lessons from this and change a life.  The most important technique is the specific knifes I would use to create certain cuts that would come out in the print. This technique is also new to me. I had fun experimenting  with it.