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Free Photoshop Brushes (brusheezy.com)
Free Fonts (dafont.com)
55 Ways to Use Text
100 Ways to Use Text
Youtube Tutorials
Digital Art Online
Movie Making Project
How is art used in everyday life?
Art is used in our everyday life because its all around us. When you walk downtown every building you pass and every road you see you can find an artistic aspect of that building or street. As long as you see something a certain way, being an artistic way, there is art in everything.
Why do Artists Produce Preliminary Plans?
Artists produce preliminary plans to give them a plan to work off of. It is a rough draft for them to reference throughout their working process. This is an artists version of a blueprint.
What problem-solving skills are employed in making works of art?
Problem solving is a very important skill to have in general and even better to have being an artist. It is very easy to make a mistake while creating art and how you adapt to fix that mistake is very important. During this project my partner and I faces a couple challenges that we had to problem solve in order to proceed with the project and finish on time. We talked through another way to shoot a clip and continued to do so.
How and why is art used as a vehicle for communication?
Art gets a point across to an audience whether it is through street art, traditional painting or in another way. The artist uses that art to get a message across and communicate with their audience. Artists use their pieces to express their opinion and show the public how they feel or what or what they believe.
How does Material Culture influence artistic decisions?
Artist use what is happening around them to show either what they want to see or what they believe about whats happening at the time, a current event. When something happens in material culture, artists often use this as an opportunity to influence the people what they believe.
Art is used in our everyday life because its all around us. When you walk downtown every building you pass and every road you see you can find an artistic aspect of that building or street. As long as you see something a certain way, being an artistic way, there is art in everything.
Why do Artists Produce Preliminary Plans?
Artists produce preliminary plans to give them a plan to work off of. It is a rough draft for them to reference throughout their working process. This is an artists version of a blueprint.
What problem-solving skills are employed in making works of art?
Problem solving is a very important skill to have in general and even better to have being an artist. It is very easy to make a mistake while creating art and how you adapt to fix that mistake is very important. During this project my partner and I faces a couple challenges that we had to problem solve in order to proceed with the project and finish on time. We talked through another way to shoot a clip and continued to do so.
How and why is art used as a vehicle for communication?
Art gets a point across to an audience whether it is through street art, traditional painting or in another way. The artist uses that art to get a message across and communicate with their audience. Artists use their pieces to express their opinion and show the public how they feel or what or what they believe.
How does Material Culture influence artistic decisions?
Artist use what is happening around them to show either what they want to see or what they believe about whats happening at the time, a current event. When something happens in material culture, artists often use this as an opportunity to influence the people what they believe.
Political Cartoon Art
To start off this project we watched a documentary called Blackfish. This was a documentary on killer whales and how they are being kept in human civilization in order to amuse us humans. We all had to create a political cartoon expressing a message. Mine political cartoon shows the phrase, "If this is not okay. Why is it okay to take them from their homes?" This corresponds to my picture because it is a human "kidnapping" a baby whale from his mother. This is showing that its not okay for take human children from their parents so why is it okay that we are doing this to the whales. From this project I learned that theres a lot more to Sea Word and it's not just what they show it to be. My drawing skills improved greatly during this project due to the fact we out 1st and 2nd draft gad to be hand drawn. This also helped me work on my "covering up" skills because I took my final drawing and put it into photoshop and fine tuned the smudges and mistakes. Also I added color to make my political cartoon more pleasing to the eye.
Pre Historic Art History Drawings
To start off this project we learned about the history behind pre historic art through a lecture given to us. We took notes to obtain the most important aspects of the lecture. Prior this lecture we began to sketch out drawings from pictures provided from the pre historic art times. After I drew the fish I scanned it into the computer and put it into Adobe illustrator. Throughout this project we gained the knowledge of pre historic art history as well as illustrator skills. My illustrator skills improved greatly throughout this projects, especially my skills and ability to use the pen tool.
Self Portrait
My self portrait represents me and who I am as a person. It shows this in the background, he Aspen trees. I've lived in Colorado my whole life and grown up around Aspens. The drawing on the right are bubbles, I am a swimmer and have been my whole life. The drawing in the middle is an EKG line. This is a representation for who I am because my love for everything I do in life as well as the love that I have for the people in my life. In the picture on the far left I'm laughing, that shows I'm outgoing and just want to have a fun life. As well as I don't care about what others think of me.
Teacher Creature Photoshop Project
The point of the teacher creature project was to take multiple pictures including one of a teacher here at Animas High School and turn them into a creature. I choose to turn our digital arts teacher into Beyonce. I found multiple pictures on the internet that I could incorporate into my final image. First, I took the picture of Beyonce and I changed the Hue/Saturation level to make the color of Roxy's face the same shade as Beyonce's body. On Beyonce's body I photoshopped two tattoos onto her leg. Second, I added the background, bars, and the floor. After I had the floor, the money, I put the tiger on the ground with glasses on and added the bird. Then, I put Lacey's face the body and put it where it would look like the body is handing from a bar. I added the shirt and the hat.
The hardest part of this project was finding a background that wouldn't take the attention away from the main aspect of my image, which is Roxy as Beyonce. I overcame this by finding a image of a city and a beach. I decided to choose the image of the city because it went unified with the other objects in my image.
My favorite part of this project was the freedom of creativity. Because, we got to choose what teacher and what they would become and look like in the final image. I also liked that we got to make these images digitally, therefore it was easier to work on at home and easier to save so your progress would not be lost throughout the project.
I have learned that I love to work on projects in Photoshop because I've had many years of it at my previous school. I also learned that I need to challenge myself more with what I create in photoshop.
The hardest part of this project was finding a background that wouldn't take the attention away from the main aspect of my image, which is Roxy as Beyonce. I overcame this by finding a image of a city and a beach. I decided to choose the image of the city because it went unified with the other objects in my image.
My favorite part of this project was the freedom of creativity. Because, we got to choose what teacher and what they would become and look like in the final image. I also liked that we got to make these images digitally, therefore it was easier to work on at home and easier to save so your progress would not be lost throughout the project.
I have learned that I love to work on projects in Photoshop because I've had many years of it at my previous school. I also learned that I need to challenge myself more with what I create in photoshop.
Photoshop tutorials
Because I have I had previous Photoshop experience I decided to do a more complex Photoshop project image. I took the whole week to do one complex image rather than 4 easier images. There were 15 steps throughout this project to create this image I followed all 15 steps to make the final image looks like the final image in the tutorial.
Landscape Mini Project
Foreground: the objects in the front are large, colorful, they have contest, texture, and they are very detailed.
Middle ground: the objects in the middle of the picture become mid-size but you can still see each object as an individual, the color becomes less vibrant, the detail becomes blurred
Background: the objects become blurred together, individual objects become one, the contrast becomes little to none, and the color becomes less vibrant, a haze.
Reflection
During this project we combined three images together to make one. I started with the picture of the trees and road, the I deleted the sky that was originally in that picture. I imported a picture of a sunset and replaced the original sky wight he sunset. Last, I get a picture of a cloud. I put this behind the mountain layer so that I could put it behind the mountain. In all I created this one picture using three separate pictures.
I learned that you have to feather the edges to blend it with another picture to make it realistic. If you do not sharpen and feather the edges it looks bad and messy, not professional looking.
Middle ground: the objects in the middle of the picture become mid-size but you can still see each object as an individual, the color becomes less vibrant, the detail becomes blurred
Background: the objects become blurred together, individual objects become one, the contrast becomes little to none, and the color becomes less vibrant, a haze.
Reflection
During this project we combined three images together to make one. I started with the picture of the trees and road, the I deleted the sky that was originally in that picture. I imported a picture of a sunset and replaced the original sky wight he sunset. Last, I get a picture of a cloud. I put this behind the mountain layer so that I could put it behind the mountain. In all I created this one picture using three separate pictures.
I learned that you have to feather the edges to blend it with another picture to make it realistic. If you do not sharpen and feather the edges it looks bad and messy, not professional looking.
Name Project
I created this image of my name in Photoshop with 6 different images to create my name and the overall image.