Spring Arts Festival

The spring arts festival was a gallery where we hung are best work from the year, vector graphics and photos alike. The two pictures (left) are some of my favorite pieces. Some of the pictures we put a background on and duplicated them to make them look nicer for the spring arts festival. The aqua orbs for example were only on orb on a white background but then I change the background to black and then I duplicated the orb and made what you see here. I found that touching up the pictures for the spring arts festival was really fun because I revisited some of my old work and then made them look better than before.

Inkscape Text

Funky desktop, originally uploaded by Cullen245.

In inkscape I was making "funky text". It was not hard but as I went into the more complicated text it got harder. If you followed the instructuions well enough then it was quite easy. I thought this unit was fun because I got to make text that looked cool in the end, and I could use it as a background which I find to be very practical. Over all I found that this unit was at an intermeidiate level, was fun to make and I liked the end result.

picture touch up

In these pictures I took two pictures. I then used the clone stamp tool to clone a certain are of pixels to the other picture then I took the pictures from the picture to take away the edges and make it look like it was always there.

Touch up

I touched up a picture of Sylvester Stalone I took the origanal (left) and then I used the stamp tool to make the touched up one (right). With the stamp tool I took pixels from perfect places and put them on imperfect places to get my result.

Photoshop

I took the pictures that we took earlier around the school and I made them look different with Adobe fotoshop. One (left) I used filters to make it look different which is quite an easy process, unlike my other one. One of my pictures was inspired by the art done by Lichtenstein (right). This one picture was a very hard process to do (considering the instructions were from a different photoshop. Both these pictures I think came out really well.

School Photography

Today I went around the school with three others and I got lots of pictures these are two of my favourite. The one on the left is on a wall by the receptionists office and the one on the right is the microwave in the cafeteria.

Photography 2

I went outside and took some pictures once again but this time I used the Macro setting and I didn't use the rule of thirds in these two pictures. Both of these photos were taken with the macro setting and it gives a good sense of depth. In both of these pictures a winter kind of look. I think that this photo shoot was even better than the last one and that the macro setting makes for a good picture.

Rule of Thirds

Indiana Sunset 5, originally uploaded by Mountain Man JC13.

The rule of thirds is demonstrated well in this foto because the main object is the tree and is in the corner of the picture and so it shows the rule of thirds.

Texture

., originally uploaded by catherine buca.

I think that this picture has great texture because you can almoust feel the texture of the plastic and the little water drops.

Patterns

Calavatra's eye, originally uploaded by HanslH.

Patterns can give a foto grate flavour to a foto and this is a good examlpe of one. It is a recurring shape that makes a pattern and gives it depth.

Depth of Field

Pencils, originally uploaded by Janet.B14.

I think this foto is a great example of depth of field. It is a great example because there is a focused point and every thing in front or in back of it is blured.

Symmetry

A Catedral Metropolitana de São Paulo , originally uploaded by tchola.

This is a great example of symmetry. It is beacuse it is the same on both sided and there is a walk way going down the middle to make an even better symmetrical effect.

Lines

Flared, originally uploaded by Burt Youngsters.

I think that this picture is a great example of lines because there are four main lines that go strait and gives it a better effect of depth.

Photography

In digital Art we all went outside to take some pictures. I learned four things that help me get a good photo: Take a lot of photos, focusing and reframing, getting close to the subject and change your perspective. The lighting in the environment is very important because it can make or brake a photo. In these two images displayed I used some not so good lighting and used it to my advantage for example for the left one I used the light to make a silhouette and in the right one I used the light to make the trees a silhouette and the sun a weak wight light. I found it difficult to get close enough to some of my subjects because they were too far away for example the mountains or the church. Over all I thought it was a fun exercise and I learned a lot about making a good photo and also I took these to really good pictures.

Animal Heads and Path Operations

These animal heads I made with path operations. Path operations are used to take a path and cut it or intersect etc. The red shapes (above) are a bunch of shapes I made only using path operations. The hardest one I think is the elephant because its trunk is much harder than the other things. All these shapes are reproductions of the the first shape. So non of these I made up, I was just reproducing other images.

Liberty Bell

I made this bell after the famous Liberty Bell in Philadelphia. This bell is made of a semi circle and a square. I made the bell by taking a square and pushing in the sides. Then I did the gradients for shading and the white is another bell just with a gradient that is white to transparent. Then after I did all the gradients and shading I made the crack, which I made it with the Bezier tool. So its really not that hard to make the Liberty Bell with vector graphics.

Cartoon Head

This is a head that I made in digital art. For this head I used allot of new things. I learned how to use the bezier tool which was new to me. We learned more about how to use nodes and gradients. I also learned a new path operation called "intersect". I think that using the bezier tool for the mouth was the hardest, because it was hard to get it just right. I think that overall the image turned out very good.

Heart with gradient

This is a heart that I made with multiple hearts. I made the actual heart out of a circle. Although the main point of this id the color and gradient. For example the way it gets lighter towards the edge. The gradients can give the impression of depth. The shine if made of a blurred circle and a 4 pointed star. It may look difficult, but once you know it's quite easy.

Basic Shapes

In digital art I started to eperiment with shapes and I started to make more advanced things like the heart with shading. The little person (to the left) is made up of three basic shapes: a clover, a dog bone and circles. And there made up of even sympler things: a star a rectangle and circles. The heart started out as a circle, and the more advanced heart is made up of a few layers of hearts and a star.

I learned with this how to take a basic geometric shape and then change it and place it to make it look like like it never was a geometric shape in the first place. You can change it to be other things like, for example, a heart.