Week 7: Sketches

I made these five sketches with a black pen and five sheets of white computer paper. The first sketch, I drew five thick black bars with a man pushing the bars out of the way to escape the music. I drew music notes in between each bar except where the man is escaping from. The second sketch, I drew a SXU radio on 88.3that has music notes coming out of both of the speakers. On the speaker on the right I have a man escaping out of the radio using a ladder. The third sketch, I have an old radio that is playing music from 88.3 and I showed this by drawing music notes coming out of the speakers. Also, I drew a man breaking free from a chain that was connected to the radio. On the fourth sketch, I drew a music line that had various music notes chasing a man who is trying to escape. On the fifth sketch, I drew a microphone that was on the air and sound coming out of it. Then I drew a man escaping the microphone using a knotted rope. I arranged each sketch to make sure that I was accomplishing the concept of the slogan "Escape from Ordinary Radio." I am conrolling the viewer's eye by contrasting lines by making items darker and filling in items with a black pen. These are five sketches of a man tring to run from ordinary radio. I am trying to say that you can explain a concept of a slogan through images instead of words.

Week 6: Final Project

These collages are made out of onion rings and an eyeball. My classmates had a problem with the first set of collages because the human eye in the center didn't look realistic. When I selected the different hue colors on the three colored onion rings, the eyeball also turned a different color. First, I went back to my original cutout of the eyeball in the onion ring. I deleted the pixels that I wasn't using around the eyeball using the rectangular marquee, polygon lasso tool, and the eraser to get the perfect shape. I selected my final cutout and copied and pasted it in each collage. I put this layer first so that the eyeball cutout was in the front of the collage. For each collage I went to the drop down section and clicked on transform and then the scale tool. I had to play with the scale of each eyeball cutout for each collage because each collage had its own scale. Then I went back to all three collages and made each hue color brighter so it stood out more. I arranged the eyeball cutout this way to make the human eye look more realistic. I wanted the all the eyeballs to match and have all the characteristics of a real eyeball. I am controlling the viewers eye by positioning the eyeball layers on top of each of the onion rings in the center. The eye starts on each of the colored onion rings and keeps going inside each of various frames till the eye reaches the pupil. This is an eyeball inside an onion ring and it doesn't mean anything in particular. I am trying to say by making more than one cutout of an item can make the image look more realistic when playing with different hue colors.

Week 5: Composition Focus

These collages are made out of an onion ring and an eyeball. First, I renamed the background layer to unlock the layer and to change the background color. Then, I copied and pasted one of my onion ring cutout in each of the three blank files I opened up in Photoshop. For each collage I went to the edit drop down section and clicked on transform and then the scale tool. For each cutout I would vary the size in each collage to have a variable. After I was satisfied with each different scale, I clicked the select all button and copied and pasted  each cutout numerous a times until I was able to fill my page up. I lined the onion rings in a line of three making the middle line layer on top. I selected the center layer and clicked on image and saturation/hue where I changed the onion ring to three different hues. I arranged the onion rings this way to give the collages a dramatic effect. In all three of my collages I have constants and variable differences. I am controlling the viewer's eye by positioning the layers on top of each other so that the center layer looks the most important. This helps the eye to ignore the other onion rings because they look less important since they are farther back in the collage. The design consistencies that I have are location, size, saturation, and lines. In each collage, I have the same location which is positioned in the center and on the top layer. Even though the top layer looks larger, each onion ring in each collage also is the exact same size throughout the collage. The color saturation is also constant throughout these three collages staying at zero. Also, I positioned the onion rings in a set of three horizontal lines while making the middle section in front. The design variables that I have are scale, quantity, and hue. I enlarged the scale in the first collage, I used the original scale of the cutout in the second collage, and I reduced the scale in the third collage. I used different quantities of cutouts in each collage to be able to fill the pages with my dramatic design since I was working with three different scales. Each colored onion ring has a different hue level. The hue level is at zero in the first collage, a -80 level in the second collage, and a +180 level in the third collage.This is an eyeball inside of an onion ring and it does not mean anything otherwise. I am trying to say that these collages can all be of the same object and have many design consistencies, but yet are uniquely different by having their own variables.