He's all yours

  

Ironman! We were suppose to do this light thing so that the person wearing the mask looked like ironman. Reduced shutter speed and all that. In the end it didnt work too well. we forgot the light in the middle of his chest (the whole ironman trademark) and the redness of his mask doesnt show up well in the light. Also the beam  of light that glows on his hand resembles a phone too much instead of his pulse laser thing. But the red hightlights in the background and how nice the glow behind his eyes are came out in the end pretty well.

happy little tree

 

Painting was super fun. I definetly looked forward to this part of the class the most and it was fun to mess with paint. I started out the first whole week trying to paint clouds but I couldn't get it the way I wanted to. I tried doing what Bob Ross did but everytime I stroked outwards it looked horrible so I just dabbed with the fat brush. The mountains took forever to paint (I used like 5 layers) but I wanted it to be kind of like a dark background looming over the rest of the painting. I scrapped that idea and painted it green in the end.

 

 I added another mountain to the left and tried to make it bright with alot of trees on the side of it. The little landing on the right was the edge of a cliff or field that overlooks a river thing. I started a nice tree that would have covered the mountain a bit but I couldn't decide what kind of tree it would be. I still want to work on it if I get more time.

Algernon

These are my flowers I made from Adobe Illustrator. Like pretty much any Adobe product, Illustrator has the almost the same format toolbar wise. The idea of drawing in vectors instead of pixels is pretty cool and is really useful for web images that need to be resized constantly. Messing with the color gradients and bloat and pinch effects was pretty cool, although having more variety of stars would produce flowers with different petal numbers. All in all this was a pretty cool tutorial. I hope the funeral was nice.

Aching for Clay

Using the ipads to draw up some designs on the free art app was pretty tech savvy in my opinion. After messing around with the app for the first 30 minutes, I figured out the basics of the app. Even though, I dislike the ipad and how inconvenient it is to make things with the clay model. I'd prefer actual clay but the ipad app was less messy and yay technology right.

Look at those sharp edges. I am so good with touchpad technology.

Once I had the clay infront of me I fiddled around with it and a turtle came to shape. I don't really see the point of planning and design. I liked my turtle. The head was the hardest part so Brandon had to help me with it.

Mr. turtle why is your shell so good?

Zen

Our next project was to make zentangles, which are pictures made of lines and patterns that all come together into one big peice. It's suppose to be creative and induce your imagination and be pretty but that doesnt come naturally. We first had to start on a block of sidewalk to see how it would look. To the left is what happened when we used colorful mud to paint. I liked this overall one alot better than our big zentangle on the brick walls of the courtyard.




In the courtyard, we decided to do a reverse brick wall where the bricks would be colored white and the filler concrete in between would be red. It took us 3 days and the hardest part was keeping our mud from dripping down into the different colors.




The end product of one of the better parts of the wall where didnt mess up. Overall I liked doing the hands on part of the project alot and wouldn't mind doing something like this again.

Forced Perspective Photography

This project was challenging. I've always seen pictures and commercials using forced perspective photography to mess with your mind but I never thought figuring out ways to do it was pretty hard. At first we tried to do one in a big field using a pipe but it was way too hard to figure out. We ended up messing around with paper after initially giving up and thats how we created this. Although you can see the fingers holding up the paper and the focus of the camera was a bit blurry, it provided for a great laugh.

Pancakes!

This is from the photoshop tutorial on pancakes and mouths. I used different pictures of pancakes and a fish and a shark instead of the pictures Mr. Sands used mainly because it was easier to google them instead of actually finding the real pictures.

This is the first one i did. Clearly, the merging didnt go well and adobe kept crashing so i had to use gimp which i havent gotten around to messing with too much. I got bored and messed with the different presets in gimp brushes and made the shoop da woop thing below.