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.

reflection eternal

This was my most successful project because Mr. Sands said that this project deserved an A and that is good enough for me. I liked how the blue highlights the tree and the mantis along with the background. The details on the leaves were pretty cool and the orange and blue stood out on the yellow paper. This print was one over the more vibrant ones out of my normal green/blue/brown variations. Since this project completed all the requirements and the teacher praised it, it is clearly the most successful of my art projects.

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Out of all my art projects, the value scale portrait was the one that I learned the most from. Learning about all the shading and different shadows that show on a persons face was interesting and fun. After completing the value scale project I learned that I should be less afraid of the dark and focus more on highlights of the lips, eyes, and hair rather than the shadows. Highlights bring the picture to life.

paper jam

I liked this project alot. Although putting the image onto the piece of rubber was kinda annoying it was fun carving out my praying mantis. I liked the way it turned out overall. I tried messing around with the main colors brown and green to try and get the setting right. The one on the left I tried giving the tree a specific brown color and the mantis a nice green turquiose color along with the leaves.

The print on the right happened after I did the second print over my first one. Although the blue doesnt really go with the brown and green colors, I liked the highlights of the blue on the mantis. If I could do this all over again, I'd probably do the hippo instead. I love hippos and they're my favorite animal anyways.

sprayyyyyyy

I enjoyed this project entirely. It was fun to do all parts of the projects. From tracing the outlines of the different stencils to actually stencilling my face and making the frame. Doing hands on work is definitely more fun than bookwork.

 Initially I misaligned my stencils while tracing and the black parts were off a bit from the blue. This shows up clearly on my final product. It kind of looks cool though so I dont mind. Messing with the spraypaint was the best part and I liked the different textures that arose from the uneven spraying of different colors.

Zombies: Beware!

Drawing this was alot harder than I thought. Learning all the facial geometry was pretty cool like how the eyes are one eye apart and halfway down the face and how the nose and lips and ear placements are all connected somehow. Implimenting these while drawing my face was the hardest part. After measuring my facial features individually, when I put them in their specific places they didnt exactly match up evenly the way we were told. For example, my lips were too small and didnt end in the middle of my eyes. My ears are non-existant (I just finished them overnight) and I kept messing up my eyes so I decided a dead zombie look would make it all better. I like my hair though.

I got bored halfway through and messed around with the mirrors. It turned out pretty cool. It'd be better with colors and maybe better design patterns

STENCIL

This is the picture for the upcoming stencil project that will be used

Value Scale

I think this piece came out pretty well and I was satisfied with the finished product. Shading the background was a total pain and I kept scratching the paper but getting the dark blacks was worth it. At first I didnt notice the hairpiece that she was wearing so it looked kind of weird but I fixed it in the end. I will probably go back and fix her eyes so the sizes match and sharpen the edges. Also a thin outline on her nose would make it appear less flat and the proportions of her lips will be fixed. I thoroughly enjoyed this project in the end and would like to do more of these shading pieces, even if they're a pain in the butt.

Shadows

This peice was fun to make. Finding the right pieces of trash to use was definetly the hard part. With Valentine's Day in heart, we decided to make a rose and candle with the word love above it. Making the perfect shapes with the shadows was pretty hard and we ended up using this cut out of cardboard for the flame of the candle. Although I dont think this peice was one of the best ones we've made, it was pretty fun to set up.

EVERYBODY RUN

Its GODZILLAAAAAAAA. Reduced the layers of an already poor image. forgot to make it black and white but the printer does it for me so woohoo.

Flying tiger

I cropped out the tiger from the original picture of him jumping on another tiger at some water place. I added a drop shadow and then made a smaller version of it to the bottom right.

racing the rhino

I missed a bit of background from the rhinos butt and between his legs. The lighting from the original picture is hard white compared to the reddish yellow that shows off the rhino and there is a lack of shadow to the right of the rhino. Besides that the picture is pretty cool.

mr. salmonella

I enjoyed drawing this turtle a considerable amount more than drawing the skeleton of the newimal or Chic. Getting to watch the turtle mosey around in its tank was cool and drawing him was even more fun
The skin of the turtle looked really run to draw with all the wrinkly lines and textures.

Drawing the specific parts of the shell was hard and the overall dark color of the turtle shell proved hard to apply on paper. I don't know how to shade very well but overall I think the turtle came out pretty well. Next time I would probably focus more on the details of the head and the parts of the turtles body that stuck out of the shell.

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The griffin bird thing that I drew the skeleton of is a mix of a lion and an eagle. The main body structure of the animal I decided would be the lion. the front limbs of the animal was a mix of eagle and lion, having the talons of an eagle in place of the lion paws. The eagle skull replaced the lion's and I added some wings to the top. I have no idea how the wings of an eagle are actually attached.

 creep picture of me