Animal Hybrid

The strongest part of my finished art piece is the zebra print on the monkey. This is the strongest part because this are is blend well and fuzz is coming out in some areas which helps it look more realistic. A part of my art piece that could be improved is the eyes. The eyes on the monkey look a little fake and unrealistic because the blending/transition of the monkey skin and frog skin around the eyes aren't blended well enough. To improve this i would actually add more of the green frog skin and then go in with a big brush that is soft. To create this work the tools i used in Photoshop include the layer mask so i could add each new animal to my original photo and the clonestamp helped me add the pattern on the zebra to the monkey. Other tools i used include the paint brush to help blend the different animals and to get rid of the parts of the animal i didn't want to use.

The easy part about this activity was collecting all the pictures of the animals. I enjoined looking at different images of animals and coming up with idea about how i would combine them all. This part was relaxing and extremely easy to do. However, the hardest part of this activity was blending the different animals together. Making the animal look realistic was really difficult because i was able to pick out so many imperfections that would bother me.

My effort towards this activity was good because i used my time wisely and was able to complete the piece on time. Also i helped out the student next to me because he didn't know how to blend the different animals together so i show'd him the brush tool and the softness tool and was able to assist him. Also i submitted all my work including my finished piece, the original images i began with, and the reflection. My craftsmanship of Editing/Quality is decent. There are some sections of my finished piece that i like and think are well done, however i do believe there are some areas that may need improvement. Lastly, my art reflection is complete and well detailed. If i could do this project again I think i would choose a different animal as my base because i feel like the monkey made it more difficult to add certain animals to it. Lastly, if i could rate my effort of this project from a scale of one to ten i would give myself a 10 because even though i got frustrated when it wasn't coming out the way i envisioned it, i still stuck with it.

Pop Art

The magic wand toll was useful during this project because it allowed me to easily select different sections of my photo and color them whatever color i wanted. To make each portrait unique i played with the image adjustments like curves and human saturation. I wanted all my portraits to vary in color and in the lightness and darkness.

The strongest visual area of my piece is in each separate portrait i believe the colors i chose all compliment each other very nicely. For example the yellow and the blue combined together both bring out the light and dark areas very nicely. A visual area of my piece that can be improved is  my bottom left portrait. This particular portrait seemed to blow out all the details on the face. I could improve the by altering the color a little bit by making the colors on the face area darker. The tools i used during this project include layers, the magic wand, paint brush and curves.  I used layers to copy the original piece 4 times and then i edited each piece to make them unique separately.  I used the magic wand to select all the different shade of gray and then i followed this by using the paint brush to paint my desired color to the areas i selected. Lastly i used curved to change the colors of each image.

The easy part about this activity was creating three other portraits after creating one. This is because after creating my first piece I was able to make adjustments on curves to the copies of my original and this took only about 5 minutes.  The difficult part about this activity was attempting to make each portrait unique. Why editing each portrait i was always concerned that i was making them all look to similar.

I met each on the goals in the activity because first of all my effort towards the activity was very good and i was able to use my time wisely and i was even able to help my other class mates with their pop art projects. I also have submitted all my work including all 4 of my pop art portraits and the completed reflection. If i could do this assignment again i would change the original photo i used. I probably would have changed it to a photo which is closer up on my face, but i still like the way these portraits came out as well. Lastly, on a scale on 1 to 10 i would rate my effort on this project as a 10 because i got the entire project done in 2 quick classes and worked hard to make each portrait different.

Clone Wars

The strongest part of my finished art piece is the different positions I am in. I feel like the different positions and actions add to my piece by making it more interesting. I also like the setting i chose because no ones background will look like mine. The people who chose to take pictures in the school may have a weaker art piece because its boring and less unique. The visual part of my art piece that could be improved upon in the edges of me because some of them don't look blended enough. Because the person who took my pictures moved so much it made it difficult for me to keep everything aligned. However, i could fix this blending issue by increasing the hardness of my brush and going over the spots that need blending. To create this piece i use the paint brush, layer masks, my phone camera, and google drive. I used the paint brush to paint holes through each layer so i could reveal me underneath. I used layer masks so i could layer each photo on to each other and then expose the clones with the paint brush. I used my pone camera to take 30 pictures of me to choose from for the clone project and then i used google drive by downloading all the pictures from my phone. I chose google drive because it allowed me to better preserve the quality of the picture.

The easiest part about this project was taking and downloading the pictures. This was easy because the task was very straight forward and once taking my pictures and downloading my pictures only took about 45 minutes or so all together. The difficult part of this project was lining up my pictures and making the piece look real. While i was lining my pictures up i would notice that i had to change the size a lot and it was very difficult to make everything line up. Once i have the lamp lined up the table would be off. Also making it look real was a challenge because every time i cleaned up the edges i could tell  where the line between the original photo and the new photo was.

My effort towards the activity was good because although i was absent a lot during this project i was still able to complete the project on time and i worked efficiently and stayed focused.  I also have submitted all my work including the contact sheet, the finished piece and this reflection. The craftsman ship of editing quality is decent. There are some sections of my work that could be improved however in general the finished product looks real. Also this reflection has been answered completely and answers each question in complete sentences. If i could do this assignment again i would most likely chose a different time of day to take the pictures. Although i do like where i took the picture, the lighting is a little dark. On a scale from 1 to 10 i would rate my effort as a 10 because  worked very hard with the limited time i had to create a piece that looks realistic.