I went around the school to find letters to spell out "Alex". I found the A in the middle school, the L on a cart, the E at the paper stack, and the X near my locker. I took the pictures with my phone and took them as squares so they would be the same size.
To make this I had to put a picture of myself in photoshop. Then I had to change the gradient and choose a color. I choose a mixture of blues and grays. I then printed a picture of it for reference. I projected the image onto a white board and taped a piece of paper over it. I traced it. Then I had to mix paints to get the right color and I painted it. I didn't number which parts corresponded with each color I just used the picture to see. I'm not artistic at all and I really struggled with this project. It was really hard to get my eyes and mouth right so they don't look good.
Some assignments I really enjoyed and learned from were the Paper Lanterns, Multiple Mirror Selfie, and the 12 Days of Photoshop.
There's nothing I want to revisit or improve upon. I'm not really sure what I want to explore. I want to keep working on the computer and stray away from painting or drawing though. I’d like to take pictures outside when the weather is nice again though. This project required me to use photoshop to complete different prompts. There were six prompts. Each photo's caption says which prompt it was and explains it a little bit. I primarily used the eraser, selection tool, and clone stamp to make them. PART ONE
PART TWO
I chose my pictures from what I love. I had my cat, my dogs, two concert tickets, Payton, Kristen, Jacob Metzger, a singer named Jon Simmons, a Nantucket sunset, a Kurt Cobain sign, and a sunset background.
Designing my lantern was done through Adobe Illustrator. I practiced making my own shapes and patterns and choose a few that I liked. I then put those in the .ai file that had the outline for the final lantern. I put the same pattern on the outside columns and a different set of the same pattern on the inside columns. The pattern in the middle column was different from the other two. I printed out the file and used an x-acto knife to cut the patterns. Then I folded then and took them to the lamp. I turned off the classroom lights and put my lantern flat on a dark colored piece of construction paper. The lamp was pointed onto it and I took some shadow pictures from different angles. Then I stapled my lantern together so it would actually become a lantern, and not just lay flat. I turned off the lamp, put Brianna's phone inside, and used the flashlight to get different shadows. The lantern glowed and I took pictures from different angles again. Then I took the phone out and put the lamp back on. I placed a mirror underneath and took pictures of the reflections that were created.
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May 2015
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