The strongest piece of my art is my blending. I used the mixer brush to blend my colors to make it look like a real painting. The mixer brush really helped me to make my project look realistic. I really love how i made the eye lids look realistic. One piece of my art that could be improved is my hair or the face and the nose, the hair came out more than it was supposed to.my nose looks a little off. On the mixing part when I started blending I was too focused on mixing the colors rather than texture and realistic-ness.

The tools I used were the paint brush, mixer brush, eye dropper, and layer mask tool. I used the paint brush to make lines or circles over any different skin tone and to paint in the color. I used the eye dropper to get the color that was on the original image. I used many layer masks, one to duplicate the original image, another to draw the lines and circles, another for coloring the hair, one for coloring the shirt, and lastly one to color the face.

The easy part about this project was drawing the outlines and coloring the image. The difficult part of the project was trying not to move while I’m trying to color the image. The eyebrows were also difficult because I tried to make it look real and when I used the eye dropper the only color that popped up was black. So I tried to make it realistic so I put some brown in it and blended it together.

I demonstrated the objective by using all the tool necessary for this project correctly. My colors are blended well; there are shadows, highlights, and a high level of detail. If I could do this project again I would change the picture and do a picture from far away. Or if we could I would like to take an image from google. On a scale of 1 to 10 I would rate myself a 10 because this project was really difficult and I tried my hardest. I think this project was more time consuming because of how you need to make the face look real and not look like handsome Squidward. I tried to make the picture look realistic.

HYBRID ANIMALS butterphant

For  my hybrid project i used three different animals. The amimals were a butterfly for the ears, snake skin for the body, and lizzards eye for the eyes. This project was very easy it just took time to make the image look and seem real.

I think the strongest part of my visual is combining the three animals together. The elephant ears was such a good idea for a butterfly wing because the shape fit so perfectly. I think I did an amazing job on the blending of the snake skin and the ears. That is the most important part in the process because if you don’t blend and don’t use the layer mask it would look like you photo shopped. I also liked how I changed the eyes of the elephant because its eyes looked old and tiny. So I improved it and changed it to lizard eyes. I changed the blend modes of the eyes and butterfly so it doesn’t look original. The tools I used in this project was mainly the stamp and the layer mask. The layer mask is always so useful when you want to draw over something. It is less work than painting because you just erase whatever you don’t need. I used the stamp on the other hand because the size. I didn’t want to stretch the image out so I lowered the picture then stamped the sky and shaded in the white area to make more sky. This whole activity was kind of easy to me. I don’t think there was a difficult part to this activity. If I could do this activity again I would change the animals. I would rate my effort on this a 10 because I used the tools correctly and tried to make it realistic.  

POP ART

  The strongest piece of my work are the colors. I used pop up colors to make the images pop. I tried to make the images bright some type of way so I can make it less boring. I could improve on the activity by making the images more clear to see that it was me. I feel like the picture I choose was far away and you couldn’t tell it was me. When I saw my classmate’s pop art I wanted to change my colors and make it brighter to make it stand out. Just like Andy Warhol, when he does pop art you can tell who the person is, he makes it clear to see and his is bright. To create my work I used the magic wand to select an area and then I used the brush to paint. I changed the size of my brush so I could paint over it with color.

     The easy part about this project was just changing the colors and the hue/saturation. Painting it was not that difficult. When you make the brush big its really easy to paint. If the brush size is small it would take long to paint. The only difficult part about this activity was trying to make the colors different.

     I demonstrated the objective of this work by creating four different pop arts. I followed the list of directions posted on Miss.Cabral's blog. If I would do this activity again I would choose a picture that was far to make the body look more cool. On a scale of 1-10, I would rate myself a 10 based on my effort. I tried really hard to keep the colors different and the face look clear. I keep all of my pop arts open at once so I could make sure I didn't repeat any colors in the same spot.  

clone wars

The strongest area of the piece of work I made was the blending of the background in my picture. The blending of my picture is smooth and has a nice transition. Blending the background in this project was very important because then it would not come out right. Putting all the pictures on to one document was the easy part of this project.  An area that I can improve on is the shading on the pictures to make them clear. Like my cloning was good but the way that all my pictures were together made it weird because I felt like I had nowhere to move. So therefore if I could do this activity again I would take my pictures in a larger background. I used the paint brush tool in this project to color over each picture. We did this so each layer would appear all at once and multiple images would be shown. Also I used the layer mask in order to use the paint brush tool. I demonstrated the goal of this project by cloning myself in my pictures and making me appear more than once.

3 different kaleidoscopes

The strongest area in my kaleidoscope is the 1^st kaleidoscope I made just because of the details and the textures of everything, it looked really smooth and nice. I think that the symmetry could be improved a little bit in the last image because I left many gaps.  This could be improved by not leaving as much gaps as I did. I like the 1^st one because it is unique. I didn’t expect it to look like that but I was rotating the photos and I started liking them

                           
I used a lot of different tools to create these images. I used the lasso polygon tool to cut the image, and the move tool to be able to rotate the pictures. I used the create a new layer tool many times in order to achieve making new layers without having to repeat the same steps over and over. I also used the ruler tool. I used the lasso polygon tool to cut my original square image into a triangle and to get rid of the other half of it. I used the move image tool to, of course, move the images where I wanted to but I also used it to rotate the photo in order to create the kaleidoscope. The copy layer tool came in handy a lot. It made making the kaleidoscope a little bit easier. When I used the ruler tool it helped me create a more symmetrical image.

The easiest part of this assignment was thinking of something to create and the hardest part was actually creating it. I had a lot of trouble getting my ideas out through the pictures I created. I tried creating different kaleidoscopes many times but I wasn't happy with the outcome which caused me to become a little behind on my work. In the end I got 3 kaleidoscopes done that people liked, but if I could do this assignment again I would try to do more intricate patterns. I would rate myself a 9 out of 10. This is because I definitely could have improved some of my skills especially where I had gaps. 

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