Design Your Own Digital Project
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Project Description: For this project I started out by cleaning my snowboard and painting it. Then I designed my graphic and put the clear gel onto it. From there I put it onto my snowboard and put the protective coat on it. The 2 programs I used in this project were Illustrator and Photoshop. During the end of this project we had a critique to show our work and get constructive feedback.
Project Reflection: I chose this project because it had been something that I have wanted to do on my own time for a while. But the opportunity came up for me to do it as a project and I jumped into it. This project was kind of frustrating because I first started with a different project and that didn’t work so I switched to this one. The other reason was that there was a lot of waiting for the gel transfers to dry. Some of the skills I got in this project were patience and working with photoshop/illustrator. Having patience is something that just makes you a good person and having that skill will be very beneficial. Working in the adobe programs is an important skill in the future because a job that I may be interested in would be skateboard or snowboard graphic design.
Project Reflection: I chose this project because it had been something that I have wanted to do on my own time for a while. But the opportunity came up for me to do it as a project and I jumped into it. This project was kind of frustrating because I first started with a different project and that didn’t work so I switched to this one. The other reason was that there was a lot of waiting for the gel transfers to dry. Some of the skills I got in this project were patience and working with photoshop/illustrator. Having patience is something that just makes you a good person and having that skill will be very beneficial. Working in the adobe programs is an important skill in the future because a job that I may be interested in would be skateboard or snowboard graphic design.
Distance and Proportions: Landscape
Scale and Proportion In Art: Referring to the size of an object
Foreground, Middle ground, and Background: the foreground is the object in the visual plane that appears closest to the viewer. Middle ground is visual plane located in between the foreground and the background. Background is the visual plane that appears farthest from the viewer.
For this photo shop project I think the most helpful tools were the pen tool and the eraser tool. You can make really fine selections with the pen tool. And with the eraser tool you can erase your mistakes. Which is great because we all make mistakes ya know?
In this project we had to use a thing called zipped files. A zipped file is a file that has other files compressed into it to make it smaller. This was helpful because it makes the file a lot easier to move around. When a file is unzipped you get all the files that were compressed back into their original size and quality.
Foreground, Middle ground, and Background: the foreground is the object in the visual plane that appears closest to the viewer. Middle ground is visual plane located in between the foreground and the background. Background is the visual plane that appears farthest from the viewer.
For this photo shop project I think the most helpful tools were the pen tool and the eraser tool. You can make really fine selections with the pen tool. And with the eraser tool you can erase your mistakes. Which is great because we all make mistakes ya know?
In this project we had to use a thing called zipped files. A zipped file is a file that has other files compressed into it to make it smaller. This was helpful because it makes the file a lot easier to move around. When a file is unzipped you get all the files that were compressed back into their original size and quality.
Photoshop Tutorials
For this tutorial I chose soft light then selected the brush tool. From there I clicked the color pallet and selected the color I want. I changed the brush settings to Hardness: 0, Opacity: %50, and Flow: %100. Then I just colored on the dog. I did multiple layers of paint then just erased the extra paint.
For this tutorial I used the pen tool to make a selection toe end up with a refined edge. From there I just used the brush tool to color the eye the color I want. To make the eye still visible I had to change the hardness of the brush.
Kin of the same steps as the eyes. I used the pen tool and made an outline of the tooth. I made a selection to smooth the edges. Then I went to edit and transformed the image. I clicked on warp and then just used my mouse to warp the tooth.
Wolf Trace
Reflection Questions:
- Do you feel you met or approached the project rationale? Use Evidence explaining why or why not. I think I did because I realized that humans took the leap and discovered that yucca plants could be used as a paint brush. I understand the power of that discovery.
- What is considered art? Art is the product of putting together elements that appeal to your emotions or senses. It can be expressed through music, literature, film, sculpture, and painting.
- How does context affect works of art? It shows and tells what's behind the art. The reasoning and beauty of it.
- Why would context matter when interpreting art? You could have a piece of art that doesn’t look like much to the eye but behind it is beautiful reasoning, and the artist’s intention for the work.
Letter Portrait
Project Description:
So first off in this project we just tried to find images in nature that resemble the words in our names. When we found the ones we liked we took pictures of them. We then uploaded them to Photoshop and started putting them together. The final step was just editing them and making them look better. In the refinement stage I mostly just focused on refining the edges and changes the spacing.
So first off in this project we just tried to find images in nature that resemble the words in our names. When we found the ones we liked we took pictures of them. We then uploaded them to Photoshop and started putting them together. The final step was just editing them and making them look better. In the refinement stage I mostly just focused on refining the edges and changes the spacing.