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.

Assignment #5 - Polaroid Collage

Artistic Reflection:
       
          The strongest technical aspect of this assignment would be the background. I was able to have the background show despite the fact that I had a little bit of room for the background. The background also helps complete the picture. I like the pattern and the two colors that I chose for the background. I think that the floral background goes with the picture because it is nature, and the picture was outside on the grass.  The technical aspect of my collage that I could improve on would be the polaroids. I think that the polaroids are too crowded together and sort of look like a mess. I wish that the layout of the polaroid sort of flowed together more and was not so crowded as much as it is.

         The easy part of this activity was the background. The background only took one day to complete. It was easy for the background to be visible. It was also easy to get the three layers for the background. Getting the two colors to be visible on the background pattern was simple and easy. The difficult part of this collage was the polaroids. I and a hard time with laying out the polaroids and getting rid of some parts that were overlapping. This process also took the longest for me to complete.
 
       The objective of this art activity was to create, using one intact image as well as balance thematic collage that is the illusion of scattered polaroids with something braking the plane and multi-layered background. I created the illusion of the scattered polaroids by the way I laid them out. I had the arm on the left side breaking the plane and used two pink colors and a pattern  for the multi-layered background. If I had the opportunity to do this project again, I would do it. I would probably chosen a different picture because I think that the problem with my picture was that it was too complicated. The picture did not really have much movement and involved two people. If I had chosen a different picture, I think that my collage would look much more appealing.

Photoshop Tattoo Artist - Assignment #4

Artistic Reflection:

                                The strongest technical aspect of my fake tattoo is the tattoo itself. It looks real because I changed the opacity level to seem like a real tattoo. I also used the warp tool to have tattoo seem like it is wrapped around the wrist. The technical aspect that I could improve on would be the highlights and the burn tool. The highlights seem very noticeable and I wish that they blended in more. The burn tool seems noticeable underneath highlights on the right side. I wish that they blended in more with my arm and skin color.
                             The easy part of this activity would be having the fake tattoo look believable. I used the warp tool to have the tattoo look like it wrapped around my wrist. I also changed the opacity level to have the color seem believable rather using the original color the tattoo was in. The difficult part of this activity was getting the highlights to seem realistic. This was hard for me because I had a difficult time trying to get the burn tool and highlight tool to work. I also had a hard time getting the color to seem believable on my arm.
                            The objective in this project was to apply the black and white tattoo onto a person that wraps around the contours of my body by employing the dodge and burn tool and a displacement map. I made the displacement map for the art activity and also applied the dodge and burn tool on my arm. The only thing I would change in my project would be the highlights. I think the highlights are a little too much noticeable. I would have the highlighter not seem so noticeable. 

                              

Landscape Collage - Assignment #3

     

Artistic Reflection: 

           The strongest technical aspect of my project would be the middle ground. The stable and the fencing looks the most realistic to me. I think this is my strongest technical aspect of my project because you can't tell that I cropped it into the picture. The technical aspect that I think I could improve on is the trees behind the stable. For some reason there seems to be part of the tree missing on the left side of the picture. I tried getting the whole tree back but it kept doing the same thing. 

          The easy part of this activity was getting the sky in the background. It was really easy because I used the mask took. This allowed the background to look realistic. The mountain was already in the background and using the mask tool, allowed me too keep the mountain. I also think that the mountain in the background allowed the sky to seem realistic.  The difficult part of this activity was getting all the different pictures to look realistic and not photoshopped into the picture. This was difficult because you had to get rid of all the access background in each picture. You also had to place ash picture in a certain way that did not make it look realistic. This required time for each picture in order for it not to look fake.
           The objective in this art activity was to create a foreground, middle ground, and background. I created the foreground by putting in the first picture which was the grass and the mountain the background. I also added in horses to help the foreground seem more realistic and to add more detail. The middle ground was formed by adding in the stable, fence and the stack of hay. I think that the middle ground seemed to go along really well with the foreground. They both get along together because they both deal with the same theme which was the farm and horses. The background allowed the whole picture to come together. The background in this case is the sky and the mountain. This allowed the whole picture to come together because it goes along with everything that i included in this art activity.