Shark

   
 With this project there were many ways to make it your own with such a broad topic. I chose to do an animal because of the unique texture each animal has, no animal has the same texture. Likewise, when you think of a dolphin you think of smooth slimy wet surface, but in reality sharks can actually be a pretty rough animal. What I did was take a actual picture of a shark and an animated picture and tried to use both pictures to create a unique element you wouldn't see often. With the shark I used colored pencils which for an art project I had never done before, using them made the picture more interesting because you can bring out the color in the shark instead of just have a black and white picture. Whenever you do a project you always gain skill especially if you've never used that method, before and there is always a learning curve but it just means you will be bette the next time. This project I wanted to stay in the boundaries of doing something I knew I could do, instead of doing something risky and having it turn out bad. The method was by far different than what I have ever tried before.

Eye

    In the scientific project we had a wide verity of things we could pick from. We narrowed it down to 20 then 10; to eventually get to our final 2 ideas; when I chose to do an eye. With the eye we used different numbered pencils to create value and with the value, you can bring out the shape, and make it look 3D, and look like you could pick it up off the page. It was difficult to start with because the retina of the eye is so hard to draw because everyone is different, its like a finger print. The shading, the tints, the contrast and the pigmentation of the eye. With an eye since no to are alike you can't combine two images to make your own because the coloring would be off along with the shape of the eye. The hardest part about the project was trying to use a greyscale to show color. Trying to show the lightness of the blue eye with just tints, and shades of gray. The best part was making the eye your own and showing the detail accosted with the eye.

Print Making Project

For this project we had to sketch a drawing in our sketchbook, then transfer it on to the piece of linoleum. After you did that you had to use the cutters to cut out the shapes into your animals and landscapes. Then we had to paint the linoleum with the ink until it is coated enough so it won't be spotty. The worst part was having to flip it and paste it on the paper because you couldn't really grip the linoleum that well. Finally after everything, we had to wash off all of the paint from the brush, the tray, and the linoleum which was annoying. The best part of the project was the end result when you finally got to see your work pay off.

Tongue Frog

The frog picture that we did in Photoshop was a lot more difficult than it looks, especially because we had to crop the picture then resize it. After that we had to fit it on the lips so I didn’t stick out and look weird. Then we had to apply the clone stamp item to the picture so that it would blend in good and not look Photoshopped. The easiest part of this project was the part where we had to erase the frog legs, because they were sticking out to much. Out of the 2 projects we did in Photoshop this was the best.

Angry Pancake

Last year in one of my classes we spent more than 9 weeks on just Photoshop, learning every single thing you could do and change in a picture. I didn’t realize how easy it is to forget how to use the different effects. Also how everything you do had to be so careful because, if you’re on the wrong layer or delete something you dint mean to it will take awhile to correct it. It also gets frustrating when you think you have something figured out then you realize that you made an error or it won’t let you do what you want. Overall Photoshop is a exiting tool to use.

Stencil Spray Paint

Spray Paint

We had to start by taking an up close picture of someone. Then that we had to use a peice of paper to trace which was hard to not have your hand get in the way of the projector. After that we used a knife to cut out the cardborad which was difficult to get the knife to go all the way through the paper. Following that we finally got to lay the stencil down and spray paint one layer at a time. After waiting I finished all four of the layers. The hardest part was cutting the paper so that it would peel off. If you went to fast the knife would not fully perice through the paper. The best part of the project was they spray painting because, painting is always fun and we also got to go outside. It was the most exiting/interesting project we had done all semester.

Shoe Drawing

The contour line drawing, my drawing was getting better because it taught me to take my time and focus on detail that is in drawing. My first attempt at drawing the shoe was not very good.  I practiced many a lot before I got it to actually look like a shoe.  I had to look at the first version of this shoe and then draw what I saw without picking up the pen or pencil I was using.  I had practiced this a lot in class by drawing hands flowers, sea shells and other objects.  Each object I drew was better than the other.  I was able to make the shoe.