Graphic Design Final

Final Exam Practice

Postage Stamps Assignment #11

Artistic Reflection:
            The strongest technical aspect of the project would be the minimalist one. I think its the minimalist one because it has like a blue and white theme. Everything blends together and look good together. The technical aspect that I could improve on would be the typography one. I think I could improve on the quote. I think the placement of it looks a little odd.
           The easiest part of this project was getting the back ground picture and the main character. It was easy to crop the main character and add a background behind him. The repetition was the easiest because I duplicated the main character and then made him smaller each time and changed the opacity.  The hardest part of this project would be the  typography stamp. It was hard for me to have the quote in the oval shape and having it be shown but not overpowering the main character.
         The objective of my project was to create three different type of stamps. Typography (bottom), minimalist (top), and repetition (middle). I created all of the stamps and changed the brightness, contrast and opacity in each of them. I also kept the same placement of the USA, 49, and 2016. They all also have the same character in each one of them. If I could do this project all over again, I would redo the typography one. I would change shape of my quote to a square and make it more brighter.

Painting- Assignment #10

Artistic Reflection:
                               The strongest technical aspect of my painting would be the background. I think the water is my strongest technical aspect because to me it looks realistic and ties the whole painting together. The water pattern also makes it look like it is water. The technical aspect that I could improve on would be the blue stripes on the fish. To me they seem a little bit too big and take away from the textured stripes. I would've probably gone back and made the stripes smaller.
                             The easy part of this project was coloring in the fish and creating the outline of the fish. It was easy because of the magnetic lasso tool and the polygon lasso tools. Those tools made the filling in and creating the outline easy to do. One of the hardest parts of this project was the texture on the orange stripes and the fins around the fish. It was difficult for me to find the texture that best suited the fish. The fins were difficult because it took me awhile for me to have the fins appear around the fish. They were not showing up due to the many layers I have but eventually I figured out a way for the fins to show up.
                                    The objective of this project was to use the texture brushes and apply them to our painting. I completed the objective by creating the about three layers of blue shades and than adding another layer for the texture. I used the texture to portray that, it was water. I also used the texture tools for the orange stripes and the fins around the fish. By adding the texture it made the fish seem more realistic.

Pop Art-Assignments #8 & #9

Artist Reflection:
                            The strongest technical aspect of my work would be the colors.  The colors of my Taylor Swift pop art, are all pastel colors. They blend in together and go well together. I think the colors in that pop art hale balance it. The colors in my Andy Warhol pop art are all vibrant which makes it pop and they help balance out the pop art. The technical aspect of my work that I could improve on would be my painting skill for the Taylor Swift pop art. The painting in the first pop art assignment are not that good. The colors of her cardigan and her skin (neck) collided with each other. The neck line of her shirt is darker than the rest of her shirt. I wish that it didn't look like that.

                          The easy part of the first pop art assignment was the desaturation part. It was easy to have Taylor Swift pixelated therefore creating the pop art effect. The difficult part go the first pop art assignment was the clipping path. Once I had completed that step, the colors were not showing up. Since they were not showing up, I had to start all over. I was confused with the clipping path step because I followed the directions but it wasn't working, but eventually I had got the clipping path to work.
                        The easy part of the Andy Warhol assignment was the hue/saturation  step. This step was what completed the whole image and was easy to complete. The difficult part was probably getting all the four images to line up with each other and creating the 2x2 grid. It was difficult to get all the images the same sizes and having it look like a 2x2 grid.

                      The objective of the first pop art was to turn ordinary portrait into a pop art inspired piece using the pen tool, clipping paths, and fill layers. I have completed this objective by taking a picture of Taylor Swift and turning it into a pop art. I learned how to create clipping paths and how to create the fill layers in order to have the pop art appearance.  For the second assignment the objective was to use adjustment, threshold and than hue/staturation. I used the threshold to highlight the hair, face, shoes, and shirt on Seleana Gomez. I used the hue/staturation to change the colors of the image in all four images.

Animal Hybrid-Assignment #7

Artist Reflection:
                           The strongest technical aspect for my animal would be the fur on the dolphins. This is my strongest technical aspect because it looks realistic cause I had used my clone stamp tool to get the fur onto the dolphin. I also made the fur different shades like it was on the snow leopard. The part that I could improve on would be the parts where I had the dolphin skin showing. On the tail of the big dolphin and the fin on the small dolphin it doesn't look that realistic because the dolphin skin looks a little like painted on.
                         The easy part of this activity was the background. I used the mask tool to get the sunset in the background. Using the mask tool made it really easy for me to change the background. The difficult part of this activity was using the clone stamp. It was a bit difficult because I had to keep going back and forth to get the fur. It was also difficult for me to get the dolphin skin showing through since I had put the fur on the whole dolphin and then went back and get the dolphin skin to show.
                       The objective of this project was creating the animal hybrid by using the clone stamp. I demonstrated this by using the clone stamp to get the snow leopard fur on the dolphin and the dolphin skin on the dolphin. If I could do this art activity again, I would have only put the snow leopard fur on the face and most of the dolphin leaving the tail, and the fins. By doing that I think my animal would look more realistic. Since, I had cover my whole dolphin with fur, I had to go back and use the clone stamp tool to the dolphin skin and apply it on the tail and fins on the dolphin. I think since I had to use the stamp tool, the dolphin skin that is being shown looks a little fake compared to the fur.

Shape Collage Assignment #6

             

Artistic Reflection:
           The strongest technical aspect of my shape collage is my background circles. I think there my strongest technical aspect because they are in the center of my project and tie in all of the rectangles and squares together. The technical aspect of my work that I could improve on is the rectangles or squares in the corners of my project. I feel as if they kind of look like they don't belong there. I wish that I had places the squares behind the circles, but not all of the background circles. I wish that I had just places them behind the circle they are blocking.

        The easy part of this activity was using the rectangular and elliptical marquee tool. They were easy to have the shapes ad fill them in. Using these tools made the project easier to complete. The difficult part of this activity was getting all the sides look symmetrical. It was difficult because you had to get all of the sides to line up with each other from the top to bottom.

           The objective of this project was to create a complex radically symmetrical design with shapes and colors of my choice. I demonstrated this activity by using the same colors as the circles in the background by using the eye dropper tool. I also used both of the marquee tools and demo started them in different sizes. I changed the opacity of some things such as the rectangles on the corners. I also overlapped the shapes throughout the project. If I could do this project again, I would try to do a different and more complex design. I feel like mine is too simple, so I would have somehow made it more complex by using more of the marquee tools.