For this personal project, which was a Christmas gift to my mom, I tried experimenting with gouache. First, I found an image of a bird on Unsplash. Then, I used a pencil to sketch in the base sketch, not sketching too lightly but making sure my lines were bold. Then, I started going in with color. I wanted it to be simpler, so there wasn't too much detail but I wanted it to be more abstract. I kept some shading on the bird, but with the flowers and branch I kept it way simpler. Then, I went back in with the pencil one more time and added some more detail. I also added some hatching just for some extra feather shading.
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In this assignment, I used the pen tool and the area fill type tool, along with the type on path tool. First, I started off with my skin as a base. I decided to use some of the shorter words to make the simpler things just so they would fit easier with the pen tool, like "art" or "artist". I then started adding facial features, changing the size of the text to make some areas bolder, like my eyelashes, or my pupils. After that, I started adding hair, using the "type on path tool" to make some hair strands, adding that extra detail. I then added my quote as the top part of my hair.
I think one of the biggest "design decisions" I made was putting my quote on top of my hair. I was going to put it on my shirt, but something about it there just didn't fit. So, I experimented with other places, like on top of my hair. I think it works there because it "closes off" the top of my hair, adding a bold line that I think makes it more visible that it's my hair. Plus, it works well because it's curving around but it's still easy to read. Another important thing I wanted to note is how I kept it grayscale. I considered adding color, but for this image I don't think it would work. I also just prefer the simple of the grayscale and how it doesn't take away from some of the smaller details. The last thing I want to talk about is the "Cheerful." I decided to put it on the shirt because I felt that my shirt was too simple, especially because it has no shading. I wanted to add it somewhere where it wouldn't be to blocky or in the way, since my face is already detailed and my hair has the quote on it. In Adobe Illustrator, I used the Shape Builder tool and the Shape tool to create these three flowers. First, I created the first one, which is the basic badge. That is the simplest one. Then, I moved onto the second one, using the Shape Builder + Shape tool to create a flower like shape (I combined a rectangle + an ellipse to create the petals. After that, I moved onto the third one, where I added a bit more detail with some highlights/shadows.
My design choices were to just make something like a flower, and show how I "improved". You can see the progress through the three, because as you go down each one has more detail. For the last one, I changed some of the colors because I felt as though they weren't contrasting enough. I think because of this, the green pops much better and still keeps the focus mainly on the first flower, but still adds to it. For the second one, I kind of wanted two colors that would work together, but I really just got 3 of the same color which wasn't that interesting to look at. I think if I did it again, I wouldn't want to do flowers again, because making the petals and making them try to be symmetrical every time was very hard. I think my favorite part was just watching the whole project come together. In the end, I was pretty pleased with the final product. I especially like the last one, because even though you can't really see them, the little shadows on the green kind of just add to the overall effect (that's just my personal opinion though:). For this image I used Photoshop. First off, I imported an image of someone walking, and sized it up a ton so it would look like a giant. Then, I used black and white to make it so it was only the feet, and it appeared as though it was behind the building. Then, I knew the image needed more so I decided to add some ghosts. I added one in the graveyard, using filters and such to change the coloring, making it a grayish, and using black and the drawing tool with the soft brush to get rid of some parts so it seemed as though the ghost wasn't fully there. Then, I added another standing on the rocks and did the same thing.
I honestly don't know exactly why I added the legs, but I really liked the idea and I think it turned out pretty cool. Then Mr. B recommended that I looked at my starter image to add more (the church with a graveyard) and I ended up adding some ghosts to the graveyard. I like to think this "fantasy" world has a lot more than just ghosts and giants, but that giants walking around might be seen as normal. I also wanted the legs to be behind the church instead of in front of it because if they were in front, it might be a bit too much. Also, logically, I would have had to have added some of the graves getting crushed under the giants foot, because the graveyard is right there. I think the part I struggled with the most in this project is figuring out where to put things and if I needed to add more. For example, I tried adding multiple other things to it, but I just didn't like the way they worked with the image. I tried adding someone with a sword, to give it more of a medieval feel, but I didn't like that. I even tried adding mysterious wolf, but it just didn't add up. So I just added the two ghosts and the feet to make it so there was multiple things happening in the image, but not too much (also pretty close to rule of odds, but the 2nd ghost is harder to see so not as much). To start off, I selected the strawberries and created a new layer. After selecting a reddish color, I pressed alt and delete to make it so that where the strawberries were was the red color. Then, I went through the options for how it would be transparent, and I think I ended up choosing multiply or color. After this, I moved onto everything else. (Although, I think the French toast is my favorite.
One difficulty I had was that the select tool was sometimes not helpful, so I had to resort to clicking Q and manually drawing where I needed. (Drawing as in using black and white to add and subtract.) Another difficulty I had was deciding what to color. For example, some parts were fine without it (the napkin, the utensils), but all of the food needed coloring, and I ended up coloring the metal for the syrup and milk container as well. One skill I developed is that now, if I have any grayscale images I want to colorize, I know how to easily. Especially if I find any really cool images that don't have color, but I can now add color to. I've also seen that this is a job option. I don't know if I'd necessarily have this as a job, because I don't know how much money you'd be earning if you aren't working for a famous museum or something, but I have seen it as one never the less. For this assignment, I added something where it probably shouldn't be. I got an image of a woman falling into water, and selected just her. Then I adjusted her position slightly, so that it looks as if she's floating/falling above the forest floor, and used the "colored lightning" requirement to make it look as if she is floating.
One difficulty for me at the start is that I thought we had to use the lasso tool and select it that way in the beginning. I found out that I didn't need to use that tool, and could instead use the quick selection tool. While using it, I still faced some problems, but I just used the brush tool after using it to make the selection more specific. For my design choices, I decided to make her float in the air instead of lying on the ground, because she needed to be somewhere where she "didn't belong" and on the ground made way more sense than falling or floating. I also decided to use the lightning bolt to make it seem more like she was floating, as if her midair wasn't enough. (This is also kind of a reference to a show I watched but not really) It's kind of like the lightning is the thing that was making her float. In this assignment I learned how to use feathering. I selected around the image and put the feathering up to about 30, and added a new layering mask, making the affect around the bird. After doing this, I adjusted it slightly and made it so that it looks like it's flying by, and took probably too much time adding the colored lighting to the background. I set the opacity lower for the lightning so it doesn't take away from the bird.
One difficulty that I had was that making the mountains visible and making it seem natural with the lightning was pretty hard. I ended up putting the opacity lower on the lightning layer so that I could see the mountains, and zoomed in a lot so that I could get as much of the mountains as I could without going into the sky again. I ended up keeping the opacity of the lightning lower in the end, because I liked it more. I didn't keep it as low though, because I wanted it to still be part of the image. I decided to have the bird flying by the ground with the mountains in the background because I thought it would give a cool affect, especially with the bird being the most prominent feature. I wanted the lightning to be there but I didn't want it to overpower the bird, because it's required but it isn't the main part of the assignment. I ended up really liking the way it came out, and another thing I noticed is that I used the rule of thirds. I didn't realize I was doing this, but this is also (technically) a design choice that I used. In this assignment, I used Photoshop to learn how to make Andy Warhol based images. First, I cropped the first image of me down to the square (1/1) option, then did Threshold in the Adjustments option, and then used the magic wand tool to select the white. I then chose two colors, used one to color the white, and then erased around me to reveal the secondary color. I then extended the canvas size, duplicating my image and just changing the colors around. After that, I chose a third color to be the "highlight" and chose to highlight my eyes.
Composition wise, it was pretty simple. The only thing I really chose was the image of me and the colors. I honestly chose a pretty random image of me and just used that. Color-wise, for the top layer I chose some complimentary colors (purple and yellow) and just changed where it went every time. For the second layer, I chose a magenta and green color, and the last, some cyans/greens/blues. Then for the highlight, I decided I wanted a color that would stand out against most of them, so I chose yellow. The only one it doesn't really stand out against is the top middle one because I'm also yellow, but it stands out pretty well against everything else, so I think it works. I didn't want to choose white because one of the starter colors was white and it might not have been as noticeable. TEXTURE - I could see that the wall had a very distinct look, and the texture was very obvious, even in pictures. The way I would describe it is a "popcorn ceiling" texture. LINE - The stairwell sign had the perfect example for line, because even though it wasn't a straight line, it was a very good example of a zig-zag. Whenever I look at that specific picture, it's the first thing my eye goes to. COLOR - The statue is very colorful and has a large variety of colors. The colors aren't dulled out or super pastel, but the right amount of bold. FORM - this is an okay example of form, because if I looked at an example of a cylinders form, I would see that it's relatively similar. Even if it's just a pillar, you can see that the bottom part is much more shaded, and there's a brighter part near the top. SHAPE - This is a sign that I found with the perfect example of a flat form. SCALE - The cups on the ground get smaller the farther away you are, and even though it's subtle, even in this image there is a larger cup in front and smaller cups in the back. SPACE - There is an almost warped perspective of the door, and it looks very far away. ALIGNMENT - The rock shown is basically in the middle of the image, and it lines up with the doors as well.
CONTRAST - The purple flower is clearly visible against the green background. PATTERN - The circles continue evenly throughout the whole image. UNITY - Everything is meant to be there and works together as an even image. PROPORTION - We can see the rocks getting smaller and smaller as we are farther away. EMPHASIS - The first thing my eye goes to in the image is the gray iron, as it's more visible against the red, and the attention is more on it. BALANCE - this is asymmetrical image, because the bottom looks like it'd be even because of the shapes, but the images are different and we can see that the top has more space than the bottom. RHYTHM - there is kind of a pattern, but instead of it being the same throughout the whole image, there is a lot of the same shapes, but not symmetrical. Out of all of the coloring pages, I think the one that works the best is the monochromatic color scheme. I know the idea wasn't to be realistic, or that there is no way to be exactly realistic since this animal doesn't exist, but I think if it did it's "color scheme" might look something like this. It's majorly some brownish colors, but it has some yellowish ones as well which is perfect, especially for the beak and claws.
For the split complementary color one, I think the thing that works best was the bluish color as the mountains and the ground. It's not exactly "realistic" but for a rock color, it works pretty well. The analogous color one, I don't like it as much. I like some of the colors, but at the same time for the coloring image I don't know if it goes well. The complementary colors was probably my least favorite one, because I had to use two palettes and they don't look amazing together. |
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