Portfolio

With the end of my first semester as a graphic design major near, I feel that I learned and accomplished much in my class. I still have a lot of practice to do but I am very satisfied with the work I put into my projects. The class was enjoyable and the challenges kept me busy. I look forward to continuing further with my major.

ANIMATION PROJECT

  

THREE WEEK ANIMATION PROJECT THAT WAS FINISHED AT 7:30AM WITH KRYSTAL KIRBY. SO TIRED BUT RATHER HAPPY I THINK? TOTALLY RANDOM ANIMATION THAT I DREW FRAME BY FRAME.

ENJOY!

TABLET ART

Hey everyone. I'm rather shy about this, but I did create a separate art blog for outside drawings that I have made using my Bamboo Tablet. I put them on a separate blog to keep my school art blog organized. They're mostly quick doodles but feel free to check them out if you'd like. 

(link)Outside the Box- Tablet Art

 

Animation Prepping (Sleeping Bat)

Getting ready with my animation project. Started practicing on my laptop with some basic ideas. I used an online gif making site to create this.

Animation Practice

Practicing with animation in Photoshop. These were some doodles I made with my tablet, with the exception of the background.

Morphx Project

 

Beginning Photo

 End Photo

Irina Werning Project

Before this class, I was aware of artists who had posed as they had in past photos, but I could never identify with a specific artist that used the technique. Werning's works are gorgeous and truly amazing to see. The time and transformation of the subject is awing and sometimes even shocking. What really impresses me about her work is all the minor details she uses to recreate the original image. I can't imagine the time and patients needed to find exact (or nearly exact) clothing and items in the photo. My favorite one was of the little girl who grew up and was covered in tattoos. Although she has changed and grown up with a very dramatic look, the viewer can still see the little girl she used to be despite all the ink on her body. Her work is truly inspiring and entices me to look through my old photos and see the progression that time has had on me and the people and places I grew up around.

Somewhere- The Outback

I've never been to Australia. It's on my bucket list of places to visit before I die. Wish the photo of myself had not been so blurry, but the lighting and Iphone were not in my favor on it.

Image: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01633/ayres-rock_1633970c.jpg

Somewhere- Jurassic Park

And in that moment I realized...that's a real dinosaur.

Image: http://www.nerdlikeyou.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/jurassic-park-raptor-in-kitchen.jpg

Morphx Practice

Art Project- Lady with a Unicorn by Raphael

(corrected version)

Our next project was to find a painted portrait and combine our image with it. I chose Lady With a Unicorn by Raphael and combined a photo of myself taken at Busch Gardens. So creepy....

PLAY TIME

Santi said go play and explore on PS. Here are a couple things that occured:

....I blame my friends for this. 56 KB

Revisiting a picture done in class. Dither 64% Diffusion Mac OS 56 KB

Charizard Image: http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131213083244/pokemon/images/e/e5/006Charizard_AG_anime.png

Volcano Background: http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/004/4/e/4e18385b2447bbf3af199c9e277afba6-d5qe5eq.jpg

WIP of BEACH_DRAGON 215.7 KB

AUTOSCOPY

For the autoscopy project, I felt really challenged on how to depict myself. I decided to center it around my zodiac sign, Leo, and some of the elements related around it. My birth stone is ruby, thus the crown upon my head. I fused my face with a lion, to show that I am a Leo. I feel like I am adventurous and a free spirit, so I added the wings of a hawk to symbolize my eagerness to fly off and explore the world. The background is like sunlight, the ruling "planet" of Leo signs. And lastly the fire tattoo. Although my element is supposedly fire, I am more drawn to water. Thus, I changed it to be blue, to symbolize a fire for things that I am passionate about and my love for the water and color blue. (Also it matched my scarf lol).

Original Photo

 Autoscopy

Diffusion-Black and White- Dither 56% with transparency

Black and White

64 colors-No Dither with transparency

Auto color-Dither (?) with transparency

 JPEG 0% 23 KB

 JPEG 25% 59 KB

 JPEG 50% 103 KB

 JPEG 75% 213 KB

JPEG 100% 496 KB

Recolored

Original Photograph

Black and White

 Recolored (Looks like cotton candy!)

 

We had to select a photo of ourselves and transfer it to black and white. Afterwords, we used the brush tool to recolor the picture.

Photoshop Practice and Play

In class, we were instructed to play around with Photoshop and use the different setting to create 10 different pictures from an original one. I chose to use my snorkeling photograph from the manatee trip I attended last fall!

 Original

 

Poster

 Original

Poster

It was a challenge to consider what subject I wanted to advertise, and also how I would use lighting to get the tracing lines I needed in Adobe Illustrator. After rummaging around in my closet, I came across my fedora and jacket. The thought of possibly turning them into a detective outfit seemed ideal, and the time of day was filtering a nice amount of light through the bedroom window. I must say, however, I wonder what my neighbors thought should they have spotted me taking at least 26 selfies in front of the window overlooking Vaughn Courtyard...

Image Trace Practice

Original Photo

 

High Fidelity

 Low Fidelity

 3 Colors

 6 Colors

 16 Colors

 Shades of Gray

 Black and White Logo

Silhouettes

Sketched Art

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