Tattoo project Artist Reflection

                                                                         Artist Reflection

     The strongest aspect of my work is the illustration of the tattoo. This is the strongest aspect of my work because it is very detailed and is an interesting design with more than one components that I joined to make one tattoo.

     The aspect of my work that can be approved upon is the use of the burn and dodge tool because they were difficult tools to use and it made the tattoo look slightly messy.

      The easiest part of this activity was coming up with an idea for a tattoo and then drawing the tattoo. This was easy because I had the image in my head and I had images on the computer to compare my drawing with. All I had to do was draw the image I had in my head already.

      The hardest part of this activity was using the tools required to make it look like a tattoo. The warp tool was really hard to use because we had to make it look like it was on the skin, so i had to make mine round to fit my wrist. The dodge and burn tool were also very hard to use because I had to make the areas where the light was on my wrist lighter and the areas where it was dark on my wrist darker. These tools were hard to determine which areas to make darker and lighter.

       I demonstrated the objective by using the tools of multiply blend, warp, dodge, and burn to create an illustration that looked as if it were a tattoo. The multiply blend got rid of the white from the tattoo to show the skin throughout the tattoo. Warp allowed me to apply the tattoo to the curves of my wrist. For instance I had to make the tattoo more round to fit my wrist. The burn tool allowed me to darken the areas of the tattoo where there wasn't as much light on my wrist. The dodge tool allowed me to lighten the areas of my tattoo where a lot of light was. Each tool made it look more and more as a tattoo. All these tools allowed me to create the effect that it was actually on my arm.

       If i could do this art activity again I would redo the areas where I applied the burn and dodge tool. These tools made the tattoo look messy, so if i were to redo them now, i could try to make them neater, so that the picture looks better.

Self portrait project Artist Reflection

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      The strongest aspect of my work is the way i used the filters to make the pictures look different than the original images. This is the strongest aspect because it allows me to blend some of the images into the background and it adds more detail to each image.

     

     The aspect i would improve upon is the cluttering at the bottom because it makes the top look a little empty. This can be improved upon by placing other items in a different location that would look better.

      The easy part of this project was putting on the filters. This was the easiest part because all you had to do was go to the filter gallery and choose one that looked good on the picture and would go with the background.

     The difficult part of this project was picking out pictures to describe myself. It was very hard to find a picture that would fit what i was thinking about and it was hard to thing of ten things that i like.

     

     I demonstrated this objective by using proximity, alignment, contrast, and using different filters. I showed proximity by placing the cat next to Taylor Swift and the phone behind her. I demonstrated alignment by aligning the soccer ball behind the basketball. I demonstrated contrast by varying the sizes of each picture so they weren't all the same. I used many filters to make the images look better. Some of these filters included watercolor on taylor swift, the diffusion glow on the cat, the graphic pen on the hunger games series, and cutout on the iPhone. I used many other filters beside these. I also reduced the opacity to make some images blend better with the background.

     If I could do this project all over again I would put more pictures near the top of the picture and i would make the lines where i erased the borders of the pictures neater because they are a little rigid.