Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Final Exam Blog Post

ART INSPIRING TECHNOLOGY
This piece was one of my favorites because of how cute it is, and it shows art that inspired technology. I used art to draw the seal, cut it into pieces, and color it. I used technology to take pictures of the seal in different positions, and I used the computer to make the seal appear to be moving in a cycle. The art that I used to create the seal inspired the use of technology to try and make the seal move. I thought that the seal was too cute to just be a simple drawing of a seal, so I wanted to make it move with the use of technology.
TECHNOLOGY INSPIRING ART
In this piece I used technology to make art. I used technology to take all of the individual pictures of Kara, the jump rope. the sport court, the USA Jump Rope logo, the frames,  and of me. Then through photoshop to cut Kara and I out of our pictures, change the color of the inside of our frames, and in general just piece the picture together. In the end it created art that was nothing like any of the individual pictures. Kara and I are on different jump rope teams and using technology I was able to create art that showed the battle that we go through at competitions. 
PERSONAL CRITIQUE: WE COLLABORATE
This project was one that was worked on by a big group of students from our class. If I remember right it was Kara, Megan, Ashley, Grayson, Chris, Caitlin, and I. We collaborated a lot to create this dog. We were all constantly asking each other to back up and look at the dog to make sure that it looked right because we all wanted the dog to turn out really good. Kara drew the dog in her sketchbook and inspired us to draw it on the street. She helped us figure out the size to make the dog so it would stay proportional to the size it was when she drew it. Without Kara we wouldn't have even had the idea to create the dog on the street. We all worked together really well and the end result turned out to be very close to the original. 
SUCCESS
This project was my most successful because I actually managed to make Carter's stick arms look like they are my arms. I didn't think that this picture was going to work out nearly as well as it did, and I am very happy with it. I solved problems because I had to clone my hair to make it where my arms used to be because my arms were in a slightly different position than his were. I also had to blend our skin tones to make it look more realistic. I developed my art skills because before this project I had never been able to successfully use the clone tool on anything, and after I was able to use it to make it look like I actually have hair where I don't.
DO OVER
If I had to choose one project from this year to do again it would have to be the light art. It sort of worked, but right as we were finally starting to get it class ended. If we were to redo this I would want to make the room even darker because everything we did had a red light in it because the red paper was too thin. Also since we would already know how to do the light art from last time so we would hopefully be able to get much better pictures this time. We could even try some completely different designs with the light from what we did before. 






Thursday, May 21, 2015

12 Days of Photoshop: Day 7

Today we had to combine a Disney character with a superhero. I chose to take Esmeralda from Hunchback of Notre Dame and combine her with Loki from The Avengers. Here is what Esmeralda looked like before I merged her with Loki:

Here is Loki before he was merged with Esmeralda:

Here is what they look like merged:
I think that it turned out pretty well.

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

12 Days of Photoshop: Day 6

Harry Potter becomes Hairy Potter when Harry gets facial hair and Hermione becomes a cat. Ron gets a hairy spider.

Monday, May 18, 2015

12 Days of Photoshop: Day 4

Literal Interpretaions 
This is what these words would mean if you took them literally. 

Horse Shoe:


Dogwood:

Jellyfish: 

Eardrum: 
Watercolor: 





Thursday, May 14, 2015

12 Days of Photoshop: Day 3

For Day 3 we had to swap body parts with someone or something, and because I felt bad that Carter broke his wrists I decided that we should be twinning. I put his arms on my body and now we can both have broken wrists together! Here is the end result:
I had to make his arms smaller to be proportional with mine, but I think it works. 

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

12 Days of Photoshop: Day 2

For Day 2 we had to create a shadow on an image that was different from the actual image itself. The whole point is that the shadow is showing your true self. My image is a puppy and the shadow is a wolf. This shows that while a puppy may be little and cute, it can still be strong and brave like a wolf. This is the finished product:

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

12 Days of Photoshop: Day 1

For Day 1 we had to slice something and put something else inside of it. I wanted to slice a pegasus, and originally I was planning on putting a rainbow inside of it. That didn't end up working out so well, so I decided to put a really bright diamond inside of it. Originally the diamond was just white but I wanted it to really stand out from the pegasus. I changed the hue and the saturation to pop out a lot, and here is the final product:

Monday, May 11, 2015

Monster

We decided to create the monsters designed by a class of 1st graders. I got a monster that looked like this when drawn by the first graders: 
After that I had to make the monster out of clay and paint it to look like the monster that the kid drew:
We also designed boxes to put the toys in to make them look more like toys. There are no pictures of the finished product unfortunately, but I think that the toy ended up looking a lot like the kid's drawing in the end. Hopefully the kid will like it. 

Anamorphosis

For our anamorphosis project we decided to Patches from 101 Dalmations. He is adorable and we all thought it would be fun. Since we had a very limited supply of black and white chalk we made him rainbow colored, and I honestly think that worked out better than it would have if we left it black and white. The whole thing turned out much better than all of us expected, and we are all very happy with the effort that we put in. So here we have our chalk Patches:
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It doesn't exactly look 3D, but the shadow did give it a pop effect.