Final Week: Final Video

             

I made this by animation on Photoshop by changing the DPI to 72 and exporting this Photoshop document to render video and then making it a quick time movie. First, I took nineteen pictures of various clocks in motion at different times of the day. Then I opened each photo into a Photoshop document and changed the background layer to layer 0. I deleted the pixels that I didn't need by using the polygon lasso tool, rectangular and circular tools, and also the eraser. When I was done with the deleting the extra pixels, I duplicated the layer into a new document. These documents consisted of 2500 by 2500 pixels, 300 DPI, and gray scale. Then I selected all and went to edit and hit the define paint brush. Next, I opened a new document on U.S. paper that was 11 x 8.5 on RGB. I started on my first layer using one color and only one paintbrush. This painting is using the neighboring colors of blue and green, but with a wide variety of different tones between these two colors. Some layers varied between light and dark and also being completely covered to only having one stamp. I made an extra layer for the title, "Tik Tok Around the Clock." When I was done with all twenty layers, I arranged the different layers until I was satisfied with this image. I arranged this image this way so that people could see the various clocks that I used. I am controlling the viewer's eye by using contrasting colors next to one another that make them stick out more especially with the white and black objects. This is an animation of various still clocks. The title of my animation is "Tik Tok" because the term tick tock represents a clock in motion whereas I only have still pictures of clocks. This helps give more insight to the animation that these were all pictures of clocks that were in motion as one point in time. Each clock has a different time on it that represents the clock "tick tocking away."

Week 15: Final Bike Lakeview Lamp Post

I made this entire image on Photoshop with the help of images on the internet. I remade this lamp post image using the same tools, but just fixing a few things. First, I had to add "Bike Lakeview" on the bottom of the canvas to tie everything together. I made this title in white to stand out more and contrast against the background colors. Then I had to fix the font on the Chicago Park District signs by making the font clearer and less filling. Next, I had to delete majority of the sailboats because the viewer's eye were being drawn to the many sailboats instead of the bike path and the bikes. Also, I had to delete a few of my bikes on the bike path and make it less cluttered. I arranged this canvas this way to make it simpler by deleting a few of the repeated objects. I arranged the painting this way so that people could see the bike path going through all of the sub neighborhoods of Lakeview next to the lake. I am controlling the viewer’s eye by using contrasting colors next to one another especially with the black objects. I am trying to accomplish the title, “Bike Lakeview,” for the lamp post canvas for the neighborhood of Lakeview in Chicago. This means you can express a whole neighborhood in this case Lakeview by pulling in different elements that represent a neighborhood. I'm trying to say to say you can express an idea by showing a scene from that neighborhood. I am trying to explain the slogan by pulling in the bike and bike paths with the lake on the side of it.

Week 14: Bike Lakeview Lamp Post

I made this entire image on Photoshop with the help of images on the internet. First I opened up a new document in Photoshop 180 x 24 inches, 150 DPI, and RGB. I decided to go with the real option meaning possible purchase along with being all original images. I opened a new layer and used the polygon lasso tool to make the bike path and used the paint bucket to color the path. Then I used the rectangular tool and made one of the yellow lines of the road. I duplicated the layer ten times and scattered the lines evenly throughout the bike path. I opened another layer and used the polygon lasso tool to make the left side of the image grass and the right the lake. I used the bike stand stamp from the last project to make a wave effect in the blue. I opened seven layers, and on each layer I used a different blue and scattered the bike stand stamp. Once I was done filling in all the spots with a different colored wave, I arranged the layers until I was satisfied with the lake. Then I opened up two more documents in Photoshop 8.5x 11 inches, 300 DPI, Grayscale. I made a bike and a sailboat on each document and selected all and defined both of them as a paint brush. I opened a new layer and stamped seven bikes going up and down the bike path. Then I stamped the sailboats all along the lake and made them various sizes. Next, I remade the Chicago Park District signs using the rectangular tool and the text box and put the five sub-neighborhoods: Wrigleyville, Lakeview East, Roscoe Village, Diversey Harbor, and Belmont Harbor on each sign. I arranged the painting this way so that people could see the bike path going through all of the sub neighborhoods of Lakeview next to the lake. I am controlling the viewer’s eye by using contrasting colors next to one another especially with the black objects. . I am trying to accomplish the title, “Bike Lakeview,” for the lamp post canvas for the neighborhood of Lakeview in Chicago. This means you can express a whole neighborhood in this case Lakeview by pulling in different elements that represent a neighborhood. I'm trying to say to say you can express an idea by showing a scene from that neighborhood. I am trying to explain the slogan by pulling in the bike and bike paths with the lake on the side of it.

Week 13: Final Bike Painting

I made this painting out of various photos that I took of different bike parts that I turned into paintbrushes. I remade my two bike paintings using the same bike paint brushes that I made. I had to fix the composition of the paintings and make one part stick out from the rest of the parts. I also had to include black and white in the paintings. First, I opened a new document on U.S. paper that was 11 x 8.5 on RGB. I started on my first layer using one color and only one paintbrush. This painting is using the neighboring colors of pink and purple, but with a wide variety of different tones between these two colors. Some layers varied between light and dark and also being completely covered to only having one stamp. I used my air cap to paint the entire layer black to use as the background color. I used my bike stand as a stamp and stamped the layer six times on the each side of the painting.  When I was done with all ten layers, I arranged the different layers until I was satisfied with these two paintings. I arranged these two paintings this way too have the focus to be on the bike wheels in the first painting and the pedals in the second painting. I am controlling the viewers eye by making the bike wheel on the top layer be more dominant and bright. The wheel has more a contrast against the black background and sticks out more. For the second painting, I have the the pedals contrasting against the  the bike reflectors and and the black background. The wheels and pedals stick out more because they are opposite colors compared to the colors in the background. These are two paintings that I made out of my own paintbrushes by using various parts of bikes. This means you can express an idea in this case a bike without using an actual bicycle. By using different parts helps get the idea that this painting is representing bicycles. I’m trying to say that by expressing a symbol by using various parts from the item can also get the point across.

      

I made these two paintings that are called "Birdie Love" and "White Christmas" out of the preset brushes on Photoshop. I remade these paintings to fix the composition of the last set of paintings and have one idea stand out more. I also had to include black and white into my paintings.  First, I opened a new document on U.S. paper that was 11 x 8.5 on RGB. I started on my first layer using one color and only one paintbrush. This painting is using the neighboring colors of blue and green, but with a wide variety of different tones between these two colors.Some layers varied between light and dark and also being completely covered to only having one stamp. I used one paintbrush to paint the entire layer black making this layer the background layer. I added white swirls all over another layer to bring white into the painting and more contrast. I made the two birds and tree large and very dark to contrast from the background. When I was finished with all twenty layers, arranged the different layers until I was satisfied with these two paintings. In the "Birdie Love" painting, I arranged the layers so that the two love birds were more dominant and very large. compared to the other stamps.  In the "White Christmas" painting, I arranged the layers so that the dark green tree would be more dominant and stick out more. I am controlling the viewers eye by making the birds and tree very dark contrast from the background. Also, I made them very large and in the center to attract more attention. These are two paintings that I  made out of using other peoples paintbrushes. This means when you are finished with each layer can arrange the layers to make completely different paintings. The more layers you create with various differences from each layer can produce more interesting paintings. I'm trying to say that the more different paintings you can create from one set of layers, can help choose which is the best and worst painting.

Week 12: Bike Paint Brushes

            I made this painting out of various photos that I took of different bike parts that I turned into paintbrushes. First, I went to Target and took ten pictures of various parts of a bike such as: pedals, handle bars, bike gears, a bell, a bike stand, wheels, a helmet, reflectors, a seat, and an air. Then I opened each photo into a Photoshop document and changed the background layer to layer 0. I deleted the pixels that I didn’t need by using the polygon lasso tool, rectangular and circular tools, and also the eraser. When I was done with the deleting the extra pixels, I duplicated the layer into a new document. These documents consisted of 2500 by 2500 pixels, 300 DPI, and gray scale. Then I selected all and went to edit and hit the define paint brush. When I did this to all nine photos, I then made my own paintbrush for the wheel of the bike. I used the rectangular and circular tool to make a bike wheel. I put each individual piece of the wheel on its own layer and then combined them all into one group. I selected the entire bike wheel and defined it into a paintbrush. Next, I opened a new document on U.S. paper that was 11 x 8.5 on RGB. I started on my first layer using one color and only one paintbrush. This painting is using the neighboring colors of pink and purple, but with a wide variety of different tones between these two colors. Some layers varied between light and dark and also being completely covered to only having one stamp. When I was done with all ten layers, I arranged the different layers until I was satisfied with these two paintings. I arranged these paintings this way so that people could see the different bike parts that I used. I am controlling the viewers eye by contrasting each part so that they stick out more.  These are two paintings that I made out of my own paintbrushes by using various parts of bikes. This means you can express an idea in this case a bike without using an actual bicycle. By using different parts helps get the idea that this painting is representing bicycles. I’m trying to say that by expressing a symbol by using various parts from the item can also get the point across.

Week 11: Painting and Drawing

I made these two drawings out of using various sizes of circular black paintbrushes and viewing different tea pots in class.In the first painting, I opened a new Photoshop document and opened a new layer. I used a nine point round paintbrush and did only vertical lines. Then, I opened another layer to fill in the spaces drawing only horizontal lines. Next, I used red and yellow on a twenty point paintbrush and colored in the spaces of the tea pot. I rearranged the different layers until I was satisfied with this tea cup and turned off the layer that had the red lines. Then I began drawing the background of the tea pot and the tea pot stand. on different layers as well. I drew the computer behind the tea pot and as well as the keyboard. In the second painting, I opened up a new document on Photoshop and and opened a new layer. Then, I used a nine point paintbrush only doing vertical lines that created some what of the shape of the tea pot. Next, I opened up another layer and filled in the spaces using only horizontal lines. I arranged the different layers this way so that people can see the tea pot as a whole. I tried to fill in all of the spaces so that the tea pot looked like a solid item as it is in person. I am controlling the viewers eye by contrasting the yellow and the black in the first drawing. Also the tea pot is very dark and filled in compared to the other items I have in the drawing so this makes it stick out more. In the second drawing, I think I am controlling the viewers eye because of the contrast between the black tea pot and the white background. These are two drawings that I made out of Photoshop's round paintbrushes. This means that by drawing different directions of lines can 

I made these paintings out of the various preset paintbrushes Photoshop offers. First, I opened a new Photoshop document on U.S. that was 8.5 x 11 on RGB. First, I decided on the two hues I would use which are green and blue. I started on my first layer using one color and only one paintbrush. This painting is using the neighboring colors of blue and green, but with a variety of different tones between these two colors. Some layers varied between light and dark and also being completely covered to only having one stamp. When I was done with all twenty layers, I rearranged they layers until I was satisfied with these five paintings. The first painting is called "Flower Power," second painting is called "Go Green," third painting is called "Jellyfish," fourth painting is called "Under the Sea," and the fifth painting is called "Bubble Burst." I arranged these paintings this way so that both the green and blue would show and contrast against each other. I am controlling the viewer's eye by putting the dark stamps against the light stamps and vice versa. I also tried to make everything be centered and draw the eye to the middle of the painting. These are two paintings that I  made out of using other peoples paintbrushes. This means when you are finished with each layer can arrange the layers to make completely different paintings. The more layers you create with various differences from each layer can produce more interesting paintings. I'm trying to say that the more different paintings you can create from one set of layers, can help choose which is the best and worst painting.

Week 10: Final Digitally Produced Sketch

I made this entire image on Photoshop with the help of the images on the internet. My classmates had a problem with the first digitally produced sketch because it seemed that the people were leaving an older radio that seemed to be broken to attend a dance party. My classmates didn't like how the older radio was higher than the new radio and it seemed that the people were descending to a less important radio. Also they didn't like the fact that the new 88.3 radio was flat. First, I grabbed group one and positioned the new radio higher to look more important. I made the details of the radio stick out more by using bevel and emboss making the features on the radio more realistic. Then, I grabbed group two and brought the ordinary radio lower to look less important. Next, I recreated the bright red ladder to connect the new positioned radios together. Then, I recreated the music notes for the newer radio giving the notes more definition. I made smaller, flat music notes that are black and boring for the ordinary radio so that it didn't seem to be broken. I arranged things this way to make it seem like the stick people were leaving an ordinary radio and upgrading to an exciting new radio. I made the new radio look more realistic with features that stick out more. I am accomplishing the concept of the slogan  "The Escape of Ordinary Radio" better in this is final image by rearranging a few details. I am able to explain the slogan in this image better because it shows the people leaving an ordinary radio too escape to the exciting 88.3. I am controlling the viewer's eye using a bright red for the color of the ladder that is contrasting to the other colors. This is a digitally produced sketch of people escaping to 88.3 from ordinary radio. I am trying to say that you can understand a concept of a slogan through images instead of words.