Color Field Art Presentation

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Pixel Portrait

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This is my pixel portrait. For this project, we were assigned to take a photo of ourselves and remake it with pixels to make it look realistic to the original photo. Above, there is the PNG version and the GIF version. The PNG is lighter than GIF. The GIF is a little more darker in color. When enlarged, the original photo and the pixel remake because pixelated and you can see the details of the photo. When zoomed out, the pixels aren't as noticeable and everything blends in to make the photo look like one piece. Between both the original photo and the pixelated photo, the original is better in terms of line quality and color blending. In the pixel remake, I took the time to go over each area of the photo in detail but I focused on the mouth-chin area because it had a lot of features that make the photo complete. In the indent on by my smile, I added darker shades of brown to add the shadow effect to it. This was also done to the chin for the shadow effect as well. The shadow effect also is like the border between other facial parts that's why its very important to focus on it and make sure its good enough to show the difference and not make it look like one thing.

During the process of making this, I used different layers for each facial part. I used the sample too to make sure I had the same color as the original photo underneath the layers and pixel by pixel, I managed to get this as my final result. This was done on Photoshop with 100 x 150 white background and 72 pixels per inch. I started with a white background and began the process.

Thanks for reading! :)

Chinese Brush Paintings

Chinese brush painting started in 4000 B.C and developed for 6000 years making it one of the oldest techniques for painting that still lives today. When using this technique, a very fine tip brush called "Chinese Brush" is used. The fine tip is used for the wide range of designs and the calligraphy in the painting. The brush techniques are based on the thickness and the texture of the stroke used mainly for tree and plant drawing. The brush strokes are said to give rhythm and beauty to give the painting more meaning. Types of brushes used in Chinese brush painting are Hsieh Chao Pi (Crab claw brush for small and large), Hua Jan Pi ( painting flowers brush) and Lan Yu Chu Pi (painting orchids and bamboo brush). Brushes used for writing are T'u hao pi (rabbits hair brush) and Hu Ying Pi (Human sheep's hair brush). The paintings are usually drawn o  Chinese paper or silk. Composition and space in the painting is very important because the painting does not require reality or a strict point of view only creativity and imagination is required.

"Flower and Bird"

The "Flower and Bird" painting symbolizes the thoughts and feelings of humans as well as beauty through the birds and plants of nature. It includes a variety of different brush strokes and also includes calligraphy. Painting in this style requires a lot of thinking on where to put everything and composition and space play a big part in this painting. Based on how much ink you use, the painting will be either deep in color or translucent and light in color. The red seal and the calligraphy are there to express the theme and message of the painting and also completing it by capturing the beauty of the painting.

Thanks for reading my first year 2 post :)

Digital Surrealism Prezi

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Pathways

Digital Surrealism Written Statement

In my Digital Surrealism work titled “Pathways“, I used a background of mountains, a hand and one of my models, walking on the hand. The pathways of the mountain were suppose to blend in with the lines on the hand. The meaning of my work is “Don’t let other people choose your path in life.” To represent that meaning even more, I had my model walk on the hand representing the path that she is choosing to go on.

To start off “Pathways”, I wanted t do something about being yourself, so I began to sketch some ideas and I came up with the pathways idea. After planning, I took a picture of my model walking with her back facing the camera. Next, I took a picture of her hand with the lines of her hand as the main focus of the picture. Then I used the quick selection tool to crop out just my model and I added her to the mountain photo. The next step, was to cut out the hand and also put it in the mountain photo. I lowered the opacity for both the hand and the model to show a fading effect to my work. To finish off my work, I played around with the contrast, brightness and curves of the photo.

Some things I learned throughout making “Pathways” were how to control the flash of the camera while it takes pictures and to focus the camera to get a cleaner, professional photo. In Photoshop, I learned some easier ways to cut something out a photo and place it to a different photo. In the end, I am very satisfied with my work and I feel like I took everything I learned this semester and applied it to my final culminating assignment.


~Miss Awesome <3

Mountain Photo Credits: Carlos Varela



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369 Video Project

This week in CyberARTS, our project was to create a 30 second video with a partner. The video had to include different camera angle and clip transitions.

Some strengths my partner and I had were putting the clips in order and adding transitions. The lighting was also a be strength because we were able to see everything clearly. A weakness we had was the stability of the camera. In some scenes, the camera was very shaky.

The music in the background was happy and exciting to represent a strong, happy friendship. The music matched the video perfectly in the meaning and the actual final video. The louder and more emphasised parts of the song were at the zoomed in part of the video that made our video that much better and the lower parts of the song were at the zoomed out parts which made our video perfect.

The transitions in our video was based on a book and it was about best friends doing origami. So what my partner and I did for the video, is we added page turning transitions and scrapbook templates to make our video feel like a book or a story.

My experience working with my partner was really fun overall. One down part was when we couldn't figure out a topic for the video, but if we didn't work together, we wouldn't have created such a great video. If I could this project again with the same partner, I would.

Hope you enjoy the video! :)

~ Miss Awesome <3

Black and White + One

In CyberARTS this week, we worked one our "Black and White + One" art piece. The assignment was to get one of our garden photos and turn it to black and white, also to add some color to it wit Adobe Photoshop.

 For my photo, I used a few layers. One of the layers were the actually photo with color. The second layer was the black and white, to give my photo that effect. Next I decided to erase the black and white where the purple of the original photo was to add my "+ one ". Finally, I increased the contrast to make the purple stand out more.