Art 141 June 10

First day back after missing 3 classes(no matter what Jocelyn thought)

Finals due today.  Here is mine.

We looked at everyone's final projects and helped Jocelyn critique them.

I found out late that it was unnecessary to print out the final project.  I coulda saved some dough but oh well.

Art 141 May 27

Today we saw PBS specials on Layla Ali, Margaret Kilagllen and Barry Mcgee.

We then went over our designs for our finals.

Web site design 

create a home page 

create a linked page

1040 px (w) X 800 px (h)

four links with 3 sub links each

She suggested going to www.comarts.com/webpicks to find great examples of web sites.

Art 141 May 20

Today our LA Weekly ads were due and we all got together and critiqued them.  Here were my final versions.

Jocelyn also went over how to design for web.  Some things to remember, web designs are only viewed on a small screen.  Taking this into account you need to make decisions as to what elements you will include in a design.

Creativehotlist.com - portfolios of web designers

We went over the 14px X 14px favicons

We went to http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/ 

and www.favicon.cc

She also briefly showed us Dreamweaver and how to put the favicon we made into a web page.

Then she went over what things are necessary to host a web page:domain name, web host

www.networksolutions.com is a good place to find a domain name.  Also godaddy.com

Next class is design architecture.

Homework is who is the client for the web site.

Art 141 99designs.com asst

I forgot to post my designs for 99designs.com.

Art 141 May 13

Jocelyn went over an extra credit assignment.  

18"x36" time motion piece

printed

something depicting motion

300 dpi

This will add 5 points to one of the previous assignment.

If you found 18 blackboards in the printer room please let Jocelyn know cuz we think someone swiped them.

Pretty much a work day today as we fixed up our 3 comps for our client.

My client was not here today.  But here were my comps.

Art 141 May 11

More work day today...

Jocelyn went over the following today:

Illustrator

3d vector graphics in Illustrator

effect -> 3d

Art 141 May 6

Mostly a work day today.

Jocelyn went over the following:

Illustrator

grids

draw a rectangle

select the grid -> Object -> path -> split into grid

guides

View -> show rulers

click on ruler and drag onto canvas

alignment

Window -> Align

 linked text boxes

If the text within a text box exceeds the bounds of the text box a red plus symbol appear near the bottom left of the text box

To continue the text in a duplicate text box...

click on red plus sign -> click on any place on the canvas

To continue the text in an existing text box

click on red plus sign -> move cursor to existing text box -> wait for the cursor to changes shape to a link symbol -> click

clipping mask

place an image on the canvas

create a new path

make sure path is above the image

select both image and path

click Object -> clipping mask -> make

Art 141 May 4 pt 2

We got another assignment...

Pair up with another classmate and design 2 ads. Each ad to the client's specs + 2 alternates

Next week we gotta have all 3 large comps.

Large ad:

12 1/4" X 4 7/8"

Small ad:

2 7/8" X 4 7/8"

Here is my client's original ad:

art 141 May 4

I was supposed to do this a while ago but...Here are my playing cards.

Here are also my logos for 99designs...

Art 141 April 20

Critique time as we needed to go to other classmates blogs and comment on their Ed Fella posters.

Art 141 April 8

No Jocelyn today.

The ed fella poster was due today.  This was my poster.

Carlos showed us how to add a clipped mask: make a p

ath, place an image, select both and then go to object-> clipping mask -> make(open apple + 7)

He then showed us that objects can have multiple fills and multiple strokes.  Make an object then open the appearance panel, click on the triangle in the appearance panel and add a new fill or add a new stroke.  From there you can select the new fill/stroke and go to Effect -> Path -> offset path to offset any fill/stroke in relation to each other.

Art 141 April 6

No jocelyn in today.  Carlos taught us some stuff on illustrator: patterns, pathfinder, and gradients.  Our in class assigment was to make 4 6x6 inch patterns and merge them into one 12x12 inch image.  This we then needed to put on our blogs.  Here is mine.

Art 141 April 1 - Illustrator to Photoshop

Today we learned to use the pen tool to create curves.  I finally know how to make a frickin curved shape.  We also learned how to import illustrator vector shapes into photoshop.  We then went over making an animated gif using the vector shapes

Art 141 March 30 - Illustrator

We got to play with Illustrator, adding shapes and text.  We then changed the text into outlines.  Here is my initial document.

  If you can't tell the shapes try to spell out my name.  Funky.

Art 141 March 23

We went over making texture with text.  We went over using the character and paragraph windows, using the text tool to make text in a text box, and changing the leading/tracking of the text and alignment to create a texture.

I was starting to get sick so I left early.

Project 2

Here are the fruits of my labor. Another Sunday full of fun. Again I am amazed at how unartistic I really am. Oh well.




Of course this is the web version and does not do me any justice. The full image is very detailed. The photoshop file was over 1GB.

Art 141 March 18

Today the 3d project was due.

I did a model of my TV remote.

We all gathered together and showed everyone our pr

ojects.  I felt better that I was not the only one to spend a day working on my project.  We then went over examining the projects and discussed how we made our project.

Afterwards we went over how to make animated gifs.  Here is my example I made during class.

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Art 141 March 11

Quiz day

This time it was a practical quiz.  We had to replicate an image Jocelyn made earlier using the techniques that we learned thus far.  She provided four images to base the final on.  Here was my finished image.  Notice the glow from the tv screen.

We also had time in class to work on our projects(3d and mandala).

Art 141 March 11 Assignment

Make TWO playing cards. Each card's theme need use a different principle and elements of design.

Art 141 March 9

Well first off, I didn't fully complete today's assignment.  Totally slacking this week.  I needed to find pictures relating to framing, hierarchy, and layers using photographs of my life.  Oh well, guess i'll have to complete the assignment later.  :-P

I think I'll change my 3d photo to my remote controller instead of my camera.  I just don't wanna lug that thing to school.

We also went over some techniques to use when making our mandala.

We went over making layers, duplicating the layers, making a layers folder, moving layers into the layers folder, and we reviewed ways to adjust the image in the layers.

Here was my demoed image.

Art 141 Assignment due March 9

Framing
These pictures alone would look okay, but together in this collage you can see how the different lighting techniques the photographer used affected the picture.


Hierarchy
Being an engineer I could think of no better hierarchy than an instruction manual and one of the women at work has an origami book.

Layers
Perfect example of layering images. The satellite image is the base layer, the street maps are layered over that, and the driving directions are layered over that.


Here is a really interesting layers example. thanks to Felice Varini This was a room that was painted so that only from a certain angle would you see the pattern line up perfectly. Otherwise you would just see random red patterns in a white hallway. The left view is not perfectly in line. The right view is when everything is lined up correctly.

Art 141 March 4 assignments

Read GDTNB pages 101-145 while thinking about my mandala assignment and how to generate the repeating images within the mandala.  Also start to think about what the mandala theme will be.  

Put examples of the three chapters into the blog.

Also try to bring some images that are 300+ dpi.

Art 141 March 4

Quiz day!!

We had a quiz today on the tools in the Photoshop program

Then Jocelyn went over some image adjustments for layers including the hue/saturation, curves, brightness/contrast and color replacement.  We also went over how to add a drop shadow on an image.

Also we need to research what a mandala is.

Teach collected our landscape narrative and showed us how to add it to our blog.

She also went over how we should critique our classmate's blogs.

Art 141 March 2

To begin class we all gathered together and discussed the different design elements we read about in our reading assignment.

We then critiqued each other's collages.  We tried to determine the art style(deco or nouveau) and which of the three design elements applied to each collage(texture, color, figure/background)

Here was one of my collages.  Which style and element did I use?.

If you guessed color design element in the art deco style you were correct.

We also went over what was due next class period(the landscape image with a narrative story) 

and discussed what we planned on doing for our 3d project.

I will be doing an slr camera with an interchangeable lens.

Art 141 assignment 3d

Due March 18

Make a 3d image of an object

same size as original

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Here is the panorama we made in class

We used Adobe Photoshop CS3 - File -> automate -> Photomerge

Art 141 assignment 3

Create a narrative composite of at least  images
The composite must tell a story
4000px X 600px

due Wednesday March 4

In Graphics design - read 55-100

read about texture, color, figure

Make 3 collages that illustrate each from found objects

Make the collages art new vogue and art deco

due Monday March 2

Art 141 class

Here we learned the layers, layer mask and gradient tool.

Art 141 assignment 2

1. Add 1 graphic example of (each) Line, Point, Plane to your blog (chpt 1 in GDTNB)
** one extra credit point per graphic if you create your OWN examples **

2. Add 2 graphic examples (each) of Rhythm and Balance to your blog (chpt 2 in GDTNB)
** one extra credit point per graphic if you create your OWN examples **

Art 141 Feb 23

Here is the image we created in class.

The class explored Adobe Photoshop CS3 to merge three images.  We had to resize the added images to fit the original wagon image.  We then had to remove the backgrounds to add realism to the merge.  Guess which parts were added and what was the base image.

That's right, the dog and the woman in the background.  Pretty easy to tell but hopefully this class will help me make the images easier.

Art 141 assignment 1

The first assignment is to review Xanga blogger.

First post

This is my first post using this blog.

Basically I created this thing for my Art class at ECC.

Class sounds hard, so I guess good luck to me.