Shoe project

Final

Cartoon artist reflection

                                                                     Artist Reflection

     The strongest aspect of my work is the eyes because i blended a darker color  with a lighter color to get the right variation in the eyes and i added a white dot in the corner of the eye to make it more realistic. The aspect of my work that can be improved upon is the hands because the shape is off and the fingers are also off. 

      The difficult part of this art activity was creating the right shape in AI because it was really difficult to get used to the new tools. It was also hard to create the right shape. The easy part of this art activity was coloring what we had already traced. it was easy because i only had choose a color and then paint where i wanted it. 

      The objective of this art project was to learn the pen tool. I demonstrated it by tracing my original image as closely as I could. The pen tool creates a straight line if u just click and then drag and it creates a curve when you click and hold then drag. Then you use the handles to adjust the curves to the right shape.  If i could do this art project again i would redo the hands, so they look better. I would do this by re-tracing the arms and hands, so they match my original drawing better.

Practice worksheets

Animal hybrid artist reflection

                                                                            Artist Reflection

The strongest aspect of my work is the head because it looks like it is supposed to be there. This aspect looks the most normal on the turtle because I positioned it correctly and added fur to a little bit of the shell to make it look natural. The aspect of my work that can be improved upon is the feet because they aren't as natural looking with the fur. I could improve upon this aspect by having more of the claws show and trying to get the shape to look more like the turtle.

The easy part of this activity was using the stamp tool because all you had to do was option click and then you could paint the fur wherever you wanted. The stamp tool made it easy to use the bunnies fur on the rest of the turtle to make the bunny and turtle combination more natural.  The hard part of this activity was choosing the animals because it was difficult to find animals that would blend well with your other animals. It was then hard to take the animals and make one natural looking animal. I used the head and fur of a bunny, the body of a turtle, and the tail and eye of a yellow lab.

I demonstrated the objective in this activity by using the stamp and healing brush tools to make a realistic looking hybrid. I used the stamp tool to copy the bunny fur onto the turtle. I also used the stamp tool to stamp the eye of the yellow lab onto the bunnies face. Finally, i used the stamp tool to fix where I had to erase the turtles head. The stamp tool allowed me to make the background like I never erased anything. I used the healing brush tool to copy certain pieces of the animals body that I wanted to use because I only had to choose a certain part and then paint where i wanted that to go. If I could do this activity again I would try to make the feet look more natural and more of a combination between turtle and bunny.

Paint artist reflection

     The strongest aspect of my work is the blending of the face because it looks most like the actual picture. It is also blended really well with very similar colors to the original. The aspect of my work that could be improved upon is the feet because they are the least similar to the original picture. I would improve upon this aspect by starting them over and using the eye dropper tool to pick up as many of the colors as i can. Then i would use the blend brush to blend the colors, but i would do my best not to blend too much.

     The easy part of this activity was blocking out the colors to be blended later. I used the eye dropper tool which made it easy to get the right colors I needed to make the penguin look as close to the original picture as possible. The difficult part of this activity was the blending because it was very hard to get the blending just right. For instance sometimes the colors got messed up or something was either blended too little or too much.
    I demonstrated the objective for this project by using the paint brush and the mixer brush tool. I used these tools to create the smooth texture of the penguin. I also used these tools to make different parts of the penguin darker to make it look real and like it has shadows on it. These tools allowed me to make the areas where more sun was hitting the penguin much lighter than other parts. If I could do this project again i would change the blending of the feet by not over blending so that each color could be seen better.

Andy Warhol project artist reflection

     The strongest aspect of my work is the combinations of the colors. This is my strongest aspect because most of the colors complement each other and the others look very well together. The aspect of my work that can be improved upon is the clarity of the picture because the bottom of the picture isn't as clear.  I would do this by either taking another photo or choosing a different one that i already had.
      The easiest part of the this project was choosing the colors. This was easy because i used different shades of two different colors in each picture. I also mainly used complementary colors in the images. The most difficult part of this activity was getting the magic wand tool to select what you wanted it. This was hard because sometimes it selected too much or too little and then you had to adjust the tolerance of the tool.
     I demonstrated the objective by using the tools on photo shop. One of the tools i used was the magic wand tool. This selected areas of the image which allowed you to change the colors. I also used the filter gallery. The filter i used was cutout. Another tool i used was the paint bucket, which painted the areas i selected with the magic wand tool. The last tool i used was the image adjustment settings. I used the hue and saturation to change the colors of the copies. I also used the black and white to make the original image black and white so it would be easier to change the colors.
     If i could do this activity again i would change the original size of the picture to 8x10 because i made mine 11x7 accidentally. I would change this by changing the dimensions of the new file i created.