Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Saturday, 22 September 2012
Building Your Digital Portfolio: Part 2: Elavator Pitch
First Assignment: Organized Ideas, detailed designs and imaginative pieces happen here.
Second Assignment:
a. I am good at organizing or laying-out ideas, whether it is on a page or throughout my day. I am good at taking pictures, and putting images together to create something new I can create orginal pieces of work by using my creativity and original ideas. I am good at challenging myself and goal setting to be constantly improving myself. I am a diligent worker who is good at working as a part of a team as well as alone.
b. I would like to imporove and build upon my ability to crete 3D images. I would like to improve my animation abilities. I would like to be better at creating a vocal point in my pieces and a place which stqands out from the rest of the piece. I would also like to work more on creting an interesting composition in my pieces by working with colours and various materials without over-doing, and having too "busy" of images.
Bethany is an imagiantive young artistwitha keen eye for detail, looking forward to advancing her knowledge in various photo editing and animation programs.
Second Assignment:
a. I am good at organizing or laying-out ideas, whether it is on a page or throughout my day. I am good at taking pictures, and putting images together to create something new I can create orginal pieces of work by using my creativity and original ideas. I am good at challenging myself and goal setting to be constantly improving myself. I am a diligent worker who is good at working as a part of a team as well as alone.
b. I would like to imporove and build upon my ability to crete 3D images. I would like to improve my animation abilities. I would like to be better at creating a vocal point in my pieces and a place which stqands out from the rest of the piece. I would also like to work more on creting an interesting composition in my pieces by working with colours and various materials without over-doing, and having too "busy" of images.
Bethany is an imagiantive young artistwitha keen eye for detail, looking forward to advancing her knowledge in various photo editing and animation programs.
Thursday, 20 September 2012
Building Your Digital Portfolio: Part1: Strategy
a. I think family, friends and art schools expect to see a variety of art pieces within my portfolio, using a variety of styles. They would also expect to see progress made throughout my portfolio by looking at my pieces. I think they expect to see information about who I am (About Me section of the portfolio). As well as what inspired me to create certain pieces or what techniques I used to create them.
b. A way I will stand out from the crowd is to create a personal, reflective portfolio. By, making it personal and inspiring to myself it will be different from others and will make me want to work harder on the portfolio. To surprise them, I will show my attention to detail while creating the portfolio while adding small animations to capture their attention.
c. I would like to create a a subdued and reflective look to my portfolio, to display more of my pieces and not distract from my art. I also think it will make my portfolio more approachable and easier to connect to. It is easier to communicate an idea through this, which I find most important in my portfolio.
d. My audience operates in a realm where commercial impact, practicality and clear communication rank highest in priority.
e. My audience puts more importance on creating a portfolio which is commercial and professional. Although, I think uniqueness and creativity would be appreciated in a portfolio. I would be willing to add animations and sound to add and make the my portfolio mine as apposed to simply putting my images in it.
b. A way I will stand out from the crowd is to create a personal, reflective portfolio. By, making it personal and inspiring to myself it will be different from others and will make me want to work harder on the portfolio. To surprise them, I will show my attention to detail while creating the portfolio while adding small animations to capture their attention.
c. I would like to create a a subdued and reflective look to my portfolio, to display more of my pieces and not distract from my art. I also think it will make my portfolio more approachable and easier to connect to. It is easier to communicate an idea through this, which I find most important in my portfolio.
d. My audience operates in a realm where commercial impact, practicality and clear communication rank highest in priority.
e. My audience puts more importance on creating a portfolio which is commercial and professional. Although, I think uniqueness and creativity would be appreciated in a portfolio. I would be willing to add animations and sound to add and make the my portfolio mine as apposed to simply putting my images in it.
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
Monday, 17 September 2012
Handmade Photoshop Assignment Reflection
Technical
The technical steps and/or developments I used in Photoshop were dodging and burning, brushes, various layers, different opacities, composition (trying to keep the images to the side and not the middle, using a few colours and placing images so your eyes move around the picture). In my photography, I tried to keep the image to the side and tried to capture images on the same level as they are. I also did not use my flash to keep the shadows in my images.
Idea or ConceptThe ideas I ended up using in this piece are using the paper element of hand-made theme. I showed this by using the pictures of my sketches and some notes on paper. I also used stamps (postage stamp brushes, creating the image of the flying bird to look more like a stamp). I ended up changing my idea of my colour swatch and not using any neon signs (even though I drove to a fair and took pictures over a weekend). My idea stayed the same throughout the creation of this image though it didn’t turn out exactly how I had in mind.
InfluencesI didn’t have any artist influences in creating this image, though in choosing my musical artist for designing the cover for I had gotten ideas from their CD label name "Light Enough to Fly" (giving me the idea to have the feathers and birds).
Composition:I used asymmetrical composition for my CD back and symmetrical composition for the front cover. For the front I put emphasis on the birds and flying by making their opacities the strongest and the colours different from the rusty browns of the background. I also tried to show the emphasis on the text by creating it a colour which stood out from the background. The back there was emphasis put on the street sign and text by creating it different colours and opacities greater than the rest of the image. Eyes move around my image by having the feathers falling from the birds and following the birds to the stamps in the sky and back around by the text. The back has movement created by the street sign, the flying birds and the text.
Motivation
What made me want to complete this piece was being able to create a album cover for one of my favourite musical artists. I wanted to do good with this piece because I wanted the artist to be well represented in my cover design.
Critical Assessment
The elements I find most interesting and successful are the stamp-like birds who are flying with feathers falling. I find this successful because it creates movement and a focus point in the piece. I enjoyed being able to use all my own photography. With additional time I would change my font or colour choice. I would change my colour choice to colours which better compiment eachother. (Using a blue to contrast the rusty, brown/orange colours throughout the piece). I would change my font to a more handmade or thick/darker font.
The technical steps and/or developments I used in Photoshop were dodging and burning, brushes, various layers, different opacities, composition (trying to keep the images to the side and not the middle, using a few colours and placing images so your eyes move around the picture). In my photography, I tried to keep the image to the side and tried to capture images on the same level as they are. I also did not use my flash to keep the shadows in my images.
Idea or ConceptThe ideas I ended up using in this piece are using the paper element of hand-made theme. I showed this by using the pictures of my sketches and some notes on paper. I also used stamps (postage stamp brushes, creating the image of the flying bird to look more like a stamp). I ended up changing my idea of my colour swatch and not using any neon signs (even though I drove to a fair and took pictures over a weekend). My idea stayed the same throughout the creation of this image though it didn’t turn out exactly how I had in mind.
InfluencesI didn’t have any artist influences in creating this image, though in choosing my musical artist for designing the cover for I had gotten ideas from their CD label name "Light Enough to Fly" (giving me the idea to have the feathers and birds).
Composition:I used asymmetrical composition for my CD back and symmetrical composition for the front cover. For the front I put emphasis on the birds and flying by making their opacities the strongest and the colours different from the rusty browns of the background. I also tried to show the emphasis on the text by creating it a colour which stood out from the background. The back there was emphasis put on the street sign and text by creating it different colours and opacities greater than the rest of the image. Eyes move around my image by having the feathers falling from the birds and following the birds to the stamps in the sky and back around by the text. The back has movement created by the street sign, the flying birds and the text.
Motivation
What made me want to complete this piece was being able to create a album cover for one of my favourite musical artists. I wanted to do good with this piece because I wanted the artist to be well represented in my cover design.
Critical Assessment
The elements I find most interesting and successful are the stamp-like birds who are flying with feathers falling. I find this successful because it creates movement and a focus point in the piece. I enjoyed being able to use all my own photography. With additional time I would change my font or colour choice. I would change my colour choice to colours which better compiment eachother. (Using a blue to contrast the rusty, brown/orange colours throughout the piece). I would change my font to a more handmade or thick/darker font.
Friday, 7 September 2012
Thursday, 6 September 2012
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