Radial Symmetry

Assignment 10

               The strongest aspect of my work, is my ability to work with these shapes. This assignment was right in my comfort zone. It's a polygon shape assignment so all spaces will be filled. The weakest aspect of my work, is lower number of my car. The license plate is a little poorly done and misshaped. I could have done a better job on all of that lower bumper.
               The easiest part of this assignment, was picking an image that I thought would go perfectly with this assignment.  I usually do something military, but I couldn't think of an image, that wouldn't go crazy into detail. I wanted to do something old so I thought of old things that I like. Vintage cars came into my mind and the rest was just looking for the car I liked. The most difficult part of this assignment was the tediousness of the assignment. Doing the same thing over and over again, kinda made you go mad. But it pays off and the end result is pretty cool. It was also difficult to capture all the little details in the car and at some points, things had to be cut out of the final picture.
               I feel that I demonstrated the assignment properly. I used the polygon lasso tool to cut out shapes in the picture. Following the directions, I only used triangle with the polygon lasso tool. After cutting out my shape, I would use the blur mode to blur my shapes and the picture. If I were to do this project again, I would probably give better  concentration on the lower front number and fix that license plate.

Assignment 9

Ray Charles Pop Art- Assignment 8

                 The strongest aspect of my work is my choice of color. I just about got his skin tone the exact color. His lip color is almost exact to his real lip color. The weakest aspect of my work is my suit shirt color. The suit shirt was supposed to be a faint green with a grayish color mixed with it. I completely messed it up. It's not the center piece, but it does draw too much attention. Unfortunately, I didn't realize the mistake I had made until I was late in the project.
                  The easiest part of this assignment, was picking my person to make a pop art of. I instantly chose Ray Charles. As soon as we had to choose a famous person, Charles was the first person I thought of.  And the image that I chose was really easy to pick out , out of the many that were given. The most difficult part of this assignment was using the pen tool. The pen tool is completely different to what we have been using to cut out images. But I was finally alb to figure it out and cut out my picture.
                 I feel that I demonstrated the objective of the assignment. The objective was to use the pen tool and to make a pop art image of a famous person. I used masks and clipping paths to make my pop art image. If I were to do this assignment again, I would choose a different person, like Frankie Valley. But for the most part everything would be the same.

Animorph Assignment 7

   
                The strongest aspect of my work, is where I put my animal and how I blended him in with light and dark splotches. My use of the bear nose, mixed in with the deer's face is a strong quality of my work. The weakest aspect of my work is my animals legs. In the original picture that I used the deer's legs were cut off, so I had to do my best to cover up the legs in the woodland picture. Also My placement of the deer is a bit bad. It was the only spot on the image that I could cover up some of the poorer parts of the animal. I wanted to push the animal a little bit further back, but that would have cut off the animals antlers more than it does peeking behind the trees. The antlers are the biggest piece of the work and without them, it would look like a bear sheep or something like that.
               The easiest part of this assignment was shading my creature into the picture. I used the burn tool and the dodge tool to darken and lighten the creature. With the ray of sunlight, I went really light on the antlers because I felt that the antlers reflecting the sunlight looked more mystical. I darkened the lower half of the body and the end quarters of the body, because those were the darkest areas in the background image. The most difficult part of this assignment was combining the two animals into one creature. Only because I wasn't too sure how I was going to do it and due to complications with the stamp tool.
                I feel I demonstrated the objective of this assignment. I combined two animals to make one hybrid creature. I used the stamp tool to get the fur of the bear and the face of the bear. I used the burn tool and the dodge tool to darken and lighten my creature. And I set a mystical background for my creature to live in. If I were to do this assignment again, I probably would've chosen two different animals. But I would definitely still do the morph of a predator and its prey. I'm very happy with the outcome of my work. I don't really think anything would change if I were to redo this assignment.

Assignment 6

           
              The strongest aspect of my work, is my use of opacity. While doing this assignment, I copied numerous layers of one black bar and spaced it out from top to bottom. I changed the opacity from one hundred to 42 and one hundred to 32. The first bar is 42 and the second bar is 32. I feel that this makes the work bolder and almost maybe pop out. The weakest aspect of my work, is my use of color. In the beginning I planned on using black and white as my two colors. As I got further into the assignment, I decided that it needed something else, because the two colors didn't really do much to the project, I decided that I would try to use opacity on something to give it a boldness or something to that extent. But even after I did that the colors are still dull and not very flashy, but thats just my artistic style.
              The easiest part of this assignment was creating my design. Because we were using squares and circles, it made it easier to create something or imaging what I wanted to create.  I didn't really know at first what I want to do, but when I made my first shape, I knew what I was going to do.  The most difficult part of this assignment, was trying to make the work stand out or be original. Though mine doesn't stand out so much, it is still original and has qualities that others might not have on their works.
               I feel I demonstrated the objective of this assignment. I organized my layers and put them into groups to better organize my work. I used the opacity to lighten areas of my work and also darken areas of the work. I used the marquee tools to make shapes and create my assignment. If I were to do this project again, I don't think that I would do anything different. I might change around some shapes and play around with the opacity. But at the end of it, I would probably have the same piece of work that I have now.
             

Assignment 5

             The strongest aspect of my work, are the polaroids. I feel that the polaroids are very well placed. Almost none of the polaroids are overlapping in the same way. None of the polaroids are lined up next to each other while being overlapped. The weakest aspect of my work, is my background and my 3-D effect. When I began this project, I made the width too small. The picture engulfs the frame and it would have been easier to work in the background, with a larger frame. The 3-D is also not too impressive. Though it is done like it's supposed to be, the stick just seems out of place. I don't particularly like how the polaroid is parallel to the stick,that is something I would have changed.
            The easiest part of this assignment, was overlapping the polaroids. It didn't have to be neat, you could just throw them on there and you would be completing the objective. It was nice to have everything cluttered for once in a project. There didn't have to be equal spacing, you could just pile the polaroids up in one area and to looks nice. The most difficult part of the assignment, was the background. Because my frame is so small, I didn't have that much to work with. I would have put more into the background, but the frame was too small and it would have made the background worse.
            I demonstrated the objective of this activity by overlapping the polaroids to make give the impression, that these pictures were just thrown on a table or countertop. I used the wand tool to give the impression that the stick is being launched out of the polaroids onto the background. If I could do this project again, I would have definitely made the frame a lot larger in the it's width. The width limited my ability to put things in the background. I would have also tried to add more polaroids into the picture along the borders of the picture itself. Some areas had to be cut out so the background could be seen. Changing the one polaroid so that the stick is overlapping it and they are not parallel, is another change I would make to this assignment.