Video project
Art is used in everyday life, you just might not notice it. Almost everything you do is a form of art. If you hum while you’re working, or if you’re listening to music and you start dancing around, or if you’re even just bored in class and you’re doodling on a piece of paper. That’s all considered art. Art is anything you do that expresses yourself. Art is used as a vehicle for
communication because you can express so many different things in art. You can paint a picture of a valley, or a meadow, and the flowers could all be dead, and you might be expressing how you feel; you could be tired, stressed, or even just really sad. You can use art as a vehicle for communication by even just dancing. You could be dancing around like a crazy person, and you’re probably happy. Or you could be dancing to a sad song and you could be dancing eloquently and beautifully, and you might be sad. There are a lot of problem solving skills employed in making art. You could be struggling with something and you don’t know what to do, so you make art. You could use it as a coping skill, or as an expressive skill. It can be used to get through anything hard that you’re going through. It’s an amazing thing to help with that. I know from experience that when you’re extremely sad, you can play a piano, and write a song, or any other kind of art you can think of. Characteristics of art and expressive features of design are used to create art because it gives it a back story, and a deep meaning.You make the artwork so meaningful and more than just a picture, you can make it a gateway to questions, or to showing people how you honestly feel. Most of the time people don’t necessarily like sharing their feelings with you, so they use art to do so. They use it to show people how they really feel without having to talk to them, and risk breaking down in front of them. Artists produce preliminary plans (such as sketches, brainstorms, etc.) because they need to know how to make it perfect, and beautiful work. So they’ll make rough drafts, and edit their work, and change things, and add things or do whatever they need to until they feel like their artwork is perfect, and beautiful.
I honestly struggled with this project. I had to make it twice. The first time it was about music, and I didn’t exactly like it, but my partner used it. Then I got pulled out of school and lost access to the video. So I had to make my own. So I decided to change the subject a little bit. It has music in it, yes, but it’s mainly about expressing yourself. I think that some helpful things in this project were refinement, and deep thought. I had to refine a lot of things, and I was able to make them better by having a deep thought process.
communication because you can express so many different things in art. You can paint a picture of a valley, or a meadow, and the flowers could all be dead, and you might be expressing how you feel; you could be tired, stressed, or even just really sad. You can use art as a vehicle for communication by even just dancing. You could be dancing around like a crazy person, and you’re probably happy. Or you could be dancing to a sad song and you could be dancing eloquently and beautifully, and you might be sad. There are a lot of problem solving skills employed in making art. You could be struggling with something and you don’t know what to do, so you make art. You could use it as a coping skill, or as an expressive skill. It can be used to get through anything hard that you’re going through. It’s an amazing thing to help with that. I know from experience that when you’re extremely sad, you can play a piano, and write a song, or any other kind of art you can think of. Characteristics of art and expressive features of design are used to create art because it gives it a back story, and a deep meaning.You make the artwork so meaningful and more than just a picture, you can make it a gateway to questions, or to showing people how you honestly feel. Most of the time people don’t necessarily like sharing their feelings with you, so they use art to do so. They use it to show people how they really feel without having to talk to them, and risk breaking down in front of them. Artists produce preliminary plans (such as sketches, brainstorms, etc.) because they need to know how to make it perfect, and beautiful work. So they’ll make rough drafts, and edit their work, and change things, and add things or do whatever they need to until they feel like their artwork is perfect, and beautiful.
I honestly struggled with this project. I had to make it twice. The first time it was about music, and I didn’t exactly like it, but my partner used it. Then I got pulled out of school and lost access to the video. So I had to make my own. So I decided to change the subject a little bit. It has music in it, yes, but it’s mainly about expressing yourself. I think that some helpful things in this project were refinement, and deep thought. I had to refine a lot of things, and I was able to make them better by having a deep thought process.
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Project Reflection:
In this project I struggled a lot. I met the project objectives, but not without a large struggle. At first I struggled with coming up with an idea, then I struggled with the pun. After a while of changing my mind on what to do, I looked at my my notes from the documentary and i saw that I had put “If you were in a bathtub for years you would get irritated too!” in my notes. So I decided to use that idea. I made this project in PhotoShop before I transferred it into Illustrator. I pulled a picture of a bathtub, an Orca, and the SeaWorld logo off of the internet, put it all together, and transferred it into Illustrator and live traced it. I think this is a very good way for information to be shared because people will see it and wonder,so they might look up the issue, and more people will end up knowing and worrying about the issue. Also, information can be shared artistically because it puts a funny twist on a sad subject; because most of the time people don’t like things if they’re kind of upsetting. Creating art differs from viewing art because it gives you the choice of making something into something else, and portraying things that are hard to describe in words into something easy to understand. Its different from viewing it because you are the only person who might know what it means, and without the right context someone could be very confused very easily.
In this project I struggled a lot. I met the project objectives, but not without a large struggle. At first I struggled with coming up with an idea, then I struggled with the pun. After a while of changing my mind on what to do, I looked at my my notes from the documentary and i saw that I had put “If you were in a bathtub for years you would get irritated too!” in my notes. So I decided to use that idea. I made this project in PhotoShop before I transferred it into Illustrator. I pulled a picture of a bathtub, an Orca, and the SeaWorld logo off of the internet, put it all together, and transferred it into Illustrator and live traced it. I think this is a very good way for information to be shared because people will see it and wonder,so they might look up the issue, and more people will end up knowing and worrying about the issue. Also, information can be shared artistically because it puts a funny twist on a sad subject; because most of the time people don’t like things if they’re kind of upsetting. Creating art differs from viewing art because it gives you the choice of making something into something else, and portraying things that are hard to describe in words into something easy to understand. Its different from viewing it because you are the only person who might know what it means, and without the right context someone could be very confused very easily.
Pre-historic art history drawings:
Project Reflection:
I started this project kind of concerned, because I had never used Adobe Illustrator before and I was so used to PhotoShop that I knew I was going to struggle. This project was mainly learning about how Illustrator works, and learning how to transform pictures. I used a lot of different resources to improve my drawing skills, such as: video tutorials, step by step printouts from Roxy, and just looking at a picture and giving it my best to make it look like the picture. I feel like the image trace tool affected the drawing in a lot of ways. The drawing itself is not mine; I pulled it off of the internet for educational purposes in Adobe Illustrator. I really enjoyed learning how to change one picture, and how you could make it so many different ways. I don’t really think i see myself using this in the future, other than maybe if a school project calls for it. Overall I really enjoyed this project.
I started this project kind of concerned, because I had never used Adobe Illustrator before and I was so used to PhotoShop that I knew I was going to struggle. This project was mainly learning about how Illustrator works, and learning how to transform pictures. I used a lot of different resources to improve my drawing skills, such as: video tutorials, step by step printouts from Roxy, and just looking at a picture and giving it my best to make it look like the picture. I feel like the image trace tool affected the drawing in a lot of ways. The drawing itself is not mine; I pulled it off of the internet for educational purposes in Adobe Illustrator. I really enjoyed learning how to change one picture, and how you could make it so many different ways. I don’t really think i see myself using this in the future, other than maybe if a school project calls for it. Overall I really enjoyed this project.
self portrait:
This picture is portraying the fact that I have an artistic side, but I'm being blocked by what seems like a brick wall and I can't achieve my goals because I cant't get to them. And I try to think artistically, and creatively but the brick wall won't let any of the thoughts through to me. The bricks represent a barricade from the colors which represent the creativity, to me. Therefore creating an effect of being trapped in my own emotional frenzy, rather than the happy creativity that is trying to reach through the bricks and rescue me.
teacher creature project:
Final result:
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Reflections: In this project, we learned how to transform our teachers, into creatures, or in my case, Indiana Jones. I had fun with this project, but it was really complicated in some parts. I struggled with a lot of things. Mostly just finding the right pictures to use, and how to make them fit in with the picture. But after I figured out what pictures to use, and got them all to fit in well, and match the scheme of everything it was fun and easy. My favorite part of the project was the final result because it looks really funny, and it shows my teachers personality in the creatures that they were transformed into. Overall this project was fun and I enjoyed doing it.
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photoshop tutorials:
- I used the lasso tool and moved the braces.
- Then I used the clone patch, and the clone stamp tool.
- First I duplicated the layer.
- Then I changed the mode to soft light.
- Then I used the paint brush tool and colored her hair the color that was desired.
- Then I touched it up with the eraser tool.
- First I used the pen tool and made a rough selection of the eye.
- Then I selected the eye.
- Then I help Control U Then changed the hue to the desired colors.
- I took two pictures, and put them together by multiplying the layers.
- Then I sharpened the cracks to make her look more broken.
- I used the text tool, and the free transform tool to do the text.
- Then I put the text layer underneath the snow layer.
- Then I added a drop shadow, and a Bevel and Emboss.
- Then copied the text layer, and put the copy between the two other layers.
Landscapes:
Understanding distance with scale & proportion
- We learned the value of knowing how to size things, and place them to make them look like they truly belong there.
Name project:
- We went around outside, or in the school, and we found letters of our name then put them altogether to make one big picture.
- This was a helpful project because it helped us view things in a different way.