Bella Anam’s
DIGITITAL PORTFOLIO
Digital Art
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Design Your Own DA Project!
Project reflection:
Project description:
original drawings:
For my independent project, I started with drawing out designs my on paper with pen and pencil, then I scanned them (with much help from Roxy) and transferred them to Adobe Illustrator where I traced them. Once the designs were fully outlined, I printed them on cardstock and cut out the designs. Now they're stencils that I can use to print the designs onto shirts! (Or in this case, cardboard!)
I wanted to do this project to finally make my designs on T-shirts. I'm tired of comfy, but bland tee-wear. That's why I tried this project out, along with the possibility of selling my products some day. I'm quite happy with the end result, and I'll definitely be making more designs independently soon!
FINAL stencils:
Understanding Scale and Proportion: Landscapes
My photshopped image:
Project description:
In this project, we learned about scale, proportion, and the differences between foreground, middleground, and background to make our photoshop products appear more realistic. The main differences between background and foreground is that objects placed into background are farther away and easy to view the details upon said object. With foreground however, details are easier to see because objects in foreground are closer to the viewer. Middleground is the area between these two, a blending of easy-to-see and vice-versa, but most commonly not the main focus of the image. Scale is a measure of size based on the other contents of an image, much like proportion. Let's say an object is out of proportion in an image, like a ginormous paper clip in front of a building, it's going to be the main focus of the image with how abstract it is, whereas if something that doesn't conform to any artistically pleasing value, can sometimes appear "strange". It's a key understanding in this project as we learn about size, proportion and distance when it ties into all these, and where they come into play upon our photoshop experiments. However, we are not limited to the confines of making our images perfectly realistic, we can also preform strange and interesting artistic value. Creativity is inspired. More to come.
Photoshop Tutorials
original
Photoshopped
First, start with a high-quality image (if you don't there will be blur and pixelation!) of an eye, and trace the iris with the pen-tool. Once selected, rightclick to make a selection of the iris and change feather radius to 3 pixels. Click "OK." Use keyboard command Control and U at the same time and observe the colors and play around with hue, saturation, brightness etc. until you're satisfied with the product. Click Control and D to unselect and then save as a PS document, and JPEG.
Original
Open image, create new layer by selecting the new layer button, and change blending mode to "soft light." Select the brush tool, click on the color pallete and select a color, then click "OK." Select a soft brush, and include these settings: hardness: 0%, opacity: 50%, and flow: 100%. Now simply color over the hair until satisfied, and you're done! (Use "[" to make brush smaller and "]" to make it larger.)
PHotoshopped
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Art as Communication
project description:
In this project, we drew cave-art/paleolithic art on paper, then scanned and traced it on the computer. We then, after that, made our own paintbrushes out of yucca by smashing the yucca with rocks, forming bristles. Then, for even for creativity, we made paint out of a mixture of chalk pastel shavings and water, and proceeded to paint our prints.
Final product:
Original drawing:
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Do you feel you met or approached the project rationale? Use evidence explaining why or why not.
I believe I did. I approached the rationale by gaining a new appreciation for how far art has come, and I was very interested while taking notes about the history of Cave Art. I was also very engaged in partaking in learning about how art can be a form of communication, and tried to contribute it into my own piece as well. While my drawing looks like just a simple wolf (as it is my first ever trace), I wanted to create the feeling of someone back then catching a glimpse of a wolf in its own world on a warm sunrise or blue evening, full of thrill and wonder.
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What is considered Art?
Art is somewhat undefinable. It’s a very wide range of expression that can fit into many products or procedures and categories. It can be painting, music, poetry, cooking, writing, photography, and much more. Bottom line, Art is fluid, and it can be visual, auditory, or a sensation, etc. But at the end of the day, I think that true art is something that makes us feel something and evokes our sensations in an inspirational way.
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How does context affect works of Art?
Context can submerge a piece of Art into a certain category or era. We have classical art, renaissance art, modern art, etc. Using an example of pop-art, even if the artist simply intended to use bright colors and a rather “comic-book” style, it can still be categorized and perceived by society as pop-art, even if the artist intended something different or style-less. Based on what everyone else is doing and what everyone else names what they’re doing, other people resonate with the expression and make their own, creating a context of trend, and thus, a category of art.
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Why would context matter when interpreting Art?
Context matters in art to hint at what the artist was feeling during creating their piece. If it was a painting by an artist in an area during World War I, and it had a dark hue, it could be considered as a vent to their feelings about the situation. But this can only be sometimes accurate, so most of the time, we can tell where our evolutionary skills in art are based on the context and era the art was created in.