my finished vector drawing of an apple.

the original picture of the apple.

When I was choosing the file format for my drawing we were given a article to read that gives us some information that we should consider before choosing a file format. This is a link to the article. I chose the .GIF as a file because I learned that the GIF handles colors better, the article tells me that the GIF file format creates a table of 256 colors from a pool of 16 million colors and that if the picture has less than 256 colors then the photo will be rendered exactly which really helps a lot.

Next was the procedure what I did was that I put the photo on the lower layer and worked around the photo. I made a new layer for every new thing that I added for example a new layer for the stem, leaf, etc. when I was making the drawing I used the gradient tool to put some shade onto the apple to give it a more realistic look.

While creating this vector drawing i encountered some challenges. One challenge i encountered was that the leaf curved at the end of it so it was a struggle so make it look real. what i did to fix this problem was that i separated the front of the leaf from the back to make it look like it curves at the end. another problem was that the apple looked to flat when i covered the body of the apple. What i did to fix this was that i used the gradient tool on it to add a shade that gave the apple a curved look which helped alot with the final outcome.

in the end i feel happy with the final outcome of the apple because i feel like i put alot of work into this assignment and i created a work that i am proud of. This is because the apple looks very realistic and has a very good shape to it and i believe i payed alot of attention to detail so my apple looks very realistic and looks like the real photo. And that is why i am happy with my final outcome.

Pixel Portrait

this is my pixel portrait at a .GIF file format.

this is my pixel portrait at a .PNG file format.

When i look at both photos at the same time when they are next to each other when i zoom in on each file i notice that the png is a slight bit darker when i look at the cheeks on the face. When i really start to close up on the face i notice that both format's have a very close line quality, for me it is hard to differentiate between the two because of the very close quality's. in my opinion i think that both have about the same quality because both have high quality and for me it is hard to determine the difference.

When doing this project i was trying to accentuate my eyes because my eyes were ,i thought, going to be the most vesible part of this pixel portrait so i wanted to make them "pop".


The way that i made this portrait was that i put the photo into one layer then i lowered its opacity so i can work well then i added another layer over the original picture layer then i worked over it. i found this helpful because i could see my face's features so it helped with my faces's composition.

Today I will be talking about a painting of a artist that I recently did a presentation on. his name is Christopher Pratt ,the painting is called "the bridge" 

The first element that I see is geometric shape because geometric shape is mainly made from an constructed environment (e.g oval,square triangle) and that is what I am see in g in this painting. also I see lots of negative space because in the sky there is nothing but color and no stars or moon but maybe that was intentional but I don't know if it was. A principal of design that I see is emphasis because the bridge is in the middle and it is standing out from the rest of the surrounding of the photo.What I like about this photo is how detailed the water is because the water is reflecting the image of the bridge.

369 assignment

Today I will be talking about this video that I made and the link is below. So first one weakness that I found is that my friends foot is shaking which isn't the best also that my friends foot stepped on the ear of one of the figures. what I think is a good part of the video is how the figures faces looked scared and the feeling that we wanted the video to be about was the feeling of fear. The music really affected the emotional experience because the figures faces look like their scared and the music was really suspenseful so there is alot of anticipation in the end like are they going to be squished or not.












here's the video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86pOaugQaN8)

stop motion

I will be talking about this stop motion video that I found on youtube and it is an effective film because they made it look really real when you watch it and in the end of the video they shoe a behind the scenes clip of them making the video and it was like a full movie set that was going into it. Also lighting affects the photo because the lighting was in the middle so you can easily see each individual post-it note which is really cool. Also the camera angle was in a really good spot because at the angle the camera was pointed at you can see all of the landscape when it looked like he was driving. also if you look closely look at the computer screen you can see that he is watching himself.

   Digital surrealism project

The intentions of my photo were to show how bullying starts and continuously affects more and more people and that bullying is continuously affecting people. Also my photo hits my concept by showing that Robbie starts the bullying and the next person bullies another person and continues that pattern.

The things that I personally dont like about my photo is that the background is blurry and that totally ruins the photo and I wish I can retake that photo but I cant so thats sad, also what I dont like is that if you look at Robbie in the photo it looks like he is standing on his toes because when I took the photo I was using a different angle than the others. Now what I like about the photo was the turnout of Robbie, Ethan, Jr, Diana and Crawford because they turned out pretty good in the print so I was satisfied with that also the shadows came out really good in the print.

What I did to the original photos of the people in the photo was that I cut then out from the cove background because I only needed them selves in the photo. Also I placed them in that order because the sunlight is coming from the top right corner so it appears that their shadows are coming exactly from that corner.

chess piece drawing

  this is a scanned photo of my chess piece drawing.

this is a photograph that I took outside of my chess piece drawing.

this is a photo of my chess piece drawing on a copy stand.



 There are three different ways to photograph a drawing that I learned today and i'm going to talk about them. So the first technique that I used was that I scanned the drawing and I think it wasn't the best technique but it was ok because the scan came out a bit too bright because the scanner was too small to house the whole drawing and the cover would cut the page so we had to use a book to cover it so that might be why it is too bright. the next technique that I used was the outside photo and I personally like it more because it ended up to be not too bright and not too dark so I think that method was the best. the last technique that I used was using a photo stand to take the photo and that one to me was the worst because it shined too much on the left side and also it did the same thing on some other shinny spots.

Now to talk about the drawing in this drawing I used a pattern in this the pattern is thin line then thick line and continuously used that pattern. In the pattern in the thick line there is a value scale in it and it start's dark around the edge and continuously gets lighter until it reaches the chess piece. I was trying to create a good value scale in the background and it creates movement by leading the viewers eye from the edge of the paper to the chess piece. Also what leads the viewers eye to the chess piece is the background (the lines) because they are all progressively moving towards the chess piece. Also what is interesting in the drawing is that the circle is encasing the chess piece.