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WEEK 14

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Week 14

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week 13

Assignment: Make a website showcasing your awesome art

Craft: Use that one software on the Mac to make our own personalized website to showcase all of our work so far in this class.

Composition: Let me get back to you on that when I remember what i did last Wednesday

Concept: We're supposed to make the site so characteristic of ourselves that we feel we have the right to get rid of the made on a Mac symbol.

Week Doce

Assignment: Finnish up comic strip

Craft: Add a frame, divide text, tweek, etc.

Composition: Add picture of the baby, divide huge text at the end, fix bad frames

Concept: the picture of the baby was added to complete the story visually and make space for breaking up the huge text box so that the reader doesnt feel like theyre doing as much reading. There was a frame that the picture did not fill the box, so we fixed that. Then, any frames that got cut off by the red lines, we fixed that too. Then we printed the hard copy out. We are done.

Week 10

Assignment: Make a comic that tells a story about some one traveling with a package for another person. The other person is waiting.

Craft: Take pictures at Union Station: Phone represents calling the baby daddy; Staring at the wall represents thinking about what she's doing (this is supposed to imply moral conflict); close up is her waiting for the train and looking at the necklace her baby daddy gave her; the train track one lets you know shes at the train station; she gets on the train; shes riding the train: her marine sees her: the marine finds out shes pregnant. 

Composition: Poster edges and the glow one are the two first styles we used on our pictures

Concept: I tried to shoot the photos in a way that would draw attention to the subjects (the girl and the dad)

Week 11

Assignment: Make art using only two colors. Black and white are included, s well as all shades and values of your two colors.

Craft: Unlock background layer of of picture and fill with a color. Desaturate photo and set to multiply. Create a middle layer (photo on top background on bottom) and fill your second color here. Various sections can be selected using polygon lasso. Your best friend for this project is the eye dropper. The eye dropper will help you keep your colors consistent which will then help keep your style consistent. Polygon lasso is good for big sections and paintbrush is good for small details. 

Composition: draw attention to things in the photo that are meant to be paid attention to for the sake of your story. Use the background color to help fade into the background things that may be distracting from your story line. A good balance of whites, blacks and colors is the key to making your pieces effective but interesting at the same time. Using this technique you are left with kind of a pop art type looking thing. It's kind of nifty.

Concept: We chose blue and yellow because they are colors that are on a Marines uniform. Also, blue is a sad color and yellow is a happy color. The girls situation is a biter sweet one so it make sense to have both colors. The palate we used was a slate blue and and a canary/ golden yellow. These colors do not take away from the message of the photo but still help highlight important info in the photos. Also, the original photos were mostly blues and yellows anyway. I would have really like to have had red in the photos to since the original photos had a lot of red in them as well and i think they would have been prettier if they had red in them. However, that wasn't part of the assignment. Moral of the story: making art with only two colors was not as bad as i thought it was going to be...but it's definitely not my cup of tea.