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