Exam

For this mid-term exam, we were told to create a project from our previous art projects, using a multitude of tools. I simply took a random artistic approach to create a more 'lax piece. I was inspired by the idea behind cropping, using that tool to crop each of my projects. I am quite satisfied with my work, having clever little jokes and ides throughout my work. I might add an actual grid, with color and such next time.

Designs For Paper

This project we were supposed to create any kind of card and in honor of the past holiday season, I created a holiday card. I used a simple picture of frost, and gave it a border. I of course was inspired by the snow back home. I thought i did pretty great.

Circles

For this project we were instructed to riffle through some ARTnews magazines and find some interesting pieces. This circle based Aborigonal Art caught my eye with its bold colors and striking circles. I really like its simplicity and how it makes the eye trace every part of the circle and each dot. The simplistic striking qualities really agree with me. 

Fruit by the Foot, sike.

For this project we were told to sort through ARTnews magazine and find a piece of art that caught our eye. Immediately this cover caught mine. The colors were very attractive all being mostly primary colors, I love those, they are something that is always eye catching. Also, the way the ribbon has been placed really agreed with my eye for some reason. Overall, I think the simplicity and the appealingnesss of the piece just really agreed with me.

Comic Strip

For this assignment we were told to create a comic through photoshop and Grant and I did just that. About my trusty water bottle, which inspired me. I am very satisfied with Grant and my work. It took us a long time to decide which pictures to use though. I would be sure to use large pictures next time. Yay!

'pixlr.com'

Today we were told to use one of seven websites that resemble that of the program photoshop, I chose to use pixlr.com, a simple website that offers very similar tools to photoshop. I used the pencil tool, the drawing tool, and the eraser tool, a total of three tools to create this image that looks hand drawn drawing. This website is really quite great considering it is free. The tools are really intuitive and are easily understood. Compared to photoshop it is quite close, using some of the same ideas and tools as photoshop. I feel like anyone who had a desire to accomplish anything from a drawing to a more serious design could use this site. I recommend this site.

Visual Puns

For this projects we were told to represent a pun visually. I just kinda thought of the individual elements that made up the pun and tried to think of what would iterate the pun, using the four techniques we were provided with, threshold, posterize, gradient map, and overlay. I think I did a pretty great job with everything, though, I kinda wish I used the filters and such more effectively. I love my Buddha one.