Week 10

Assignment: Finish up coloring the comic pictures and make sure the story is depicted clearly through the pictures.

Craft

I got alot of good tips today during the critique to better my comic. I need to make some ideas more clear by words and action lines in my pictures. Also, i think my coloring is on point, but im going to zoom in and smooth the edges out.

Concept

My concept is basically the same, but i might be adding some more color, such as hair color or eye color to make my characters seem more believable.

Week 9

Assignment: Desaturate pictures and color picture with two different colors.

Craft: 

First i need to make the original picture a layer and not a background by double clicking it and renaming it. After this i need to make a layer for each color that i'm going to be using in my picture. 

Composition: 

The main color has to be the last layer and the original photo has to be the first layer. All the other color layers have to be between the two.

Concept: 

I want to use the colors blue and yellow. Also, i want to use alot of shades of those two colors in my comic. Finally, when i get the pictures colored i want to use the filter Poster Edges to make the pictures look comic-like.

Week 7

Assignment: Story about two people, one traveling and one waiting, and a package.

Traveler : Mia

Person Waiting: Em

Package: Box of Emotions

Storyline: 

Em and Mia are fraternal twins. Em was born with no emotions, while Mia was very emotional in every situation. Nineteen years late, Em was an inspiring actress, but couldn't display emotion. Like every other day Em went to "the bean" downtown Chicago and tried over and over to show any kind of emotion in her face, but this day was like no other. Mia found a box at her work in the sears tower. When she open it, she created little doll-like Mias which each displayed a different emotion. She closed the box and very awkwardly headed to Em. On the way Mia was very paranoid because laughing, crying and screaming were coming from the box. Finally, Mia arrived at "the bean" and gave  Em the box. When she opened it the little Mias jumped on Em and with a smile and a tear in her eye Em gave Mia a hug.

Extra Credit

Assignment: Go to Lincoln Art Show

I went to the Lincoln exhibit with Alysha and Jones. It was really interesting and fun to see my art work displayed with so many other artists.

This piece was my leaste favorite. It brought diversity among the other art works, but i feel like it was made over night with not alot of thought.

On the other hand, this was my favorite piece. To me it represents the present Lincoln, by using Barrack Obama's style poster. Also, it shows that Lincoln would still strongly believe in "FREEDOM".

Week 6

Assignment: Mash-up2, take photos and combine them to convey a message to the audience.

Craft: 

I used photoshop to combine the pictures i took. I used the the lasso tool to cut out ronald mcdonalds face and an overweight guys body and inserted it on to my background of the track in the shannon center. I also used the eraser to clean up the edges around the face and body. Furthermore, i used the scale option to make sure the face and body were porpotional and finished it up with a hue/saturation plus brightness/contrast tool to blend all three pictures together.

Composition:

One thing i didn't incorporate was the guys legs because of the angle i took of the track i would have to erase all the railing bars that were infront of him because i had him leaning on a railing. I am going to fix this up with my final draft by taking a picture of someone overweight actually struggling in running on the track. Also, i'd like to incorporate the American flag and a flag of mcdonalds or such.

Concept:

I had to totally change my original concept, which was to show the presence of poverty in modern society to who really runs America. I am going to convey this message by showing an overweight person running on the track, but struggling. This person is going to have the face of ronald mcdonald. I want him to be maybe dragging the American flag and running with a mcdonalds flag.

Week 5

Assignment: Take 25 pictures of people and places for Mash up project 2.

Craft: I want to take atleast two pictures and combined them together seamlessly to create a picture that depicts a clear message to my audience. I will be doing this combination on photoshop. I will be using such tools as the marquee, lasso, and magic wands to make selections. To transform the picture i will use roation, scale, distort and skew. Further more to make adjustments to the layers or the background i will play around with brightness/contrast and hue/saturation.

Composition: At the time i only have maybe one or two photos i want to use. This weekend is when im going to take most of my pictures for my mash up project. I want to get various homeless people and put them in four different places at Saint Xavier where you could not ignore their presence. This would make poverty a reality to many students and hopefully bring out a positive response of caring and love.

Concept: I want to go downtown and take various picture of homeless people and their living condition. I want to insert these people in various locations on campus, such as our caf, the gym, in class, etc. I want to depict the message that just because homeless people are not present in our everyday life, it is still real and i believe people would care more about this reality if they could see their everyday struggles we take for granted.

Week 4

Assignment: Final Draft of Mash-Up: I selected a picture from the lincoln era and a picture that I took from the modern era to mash together to convey a message.

Craft:

First i selected a picture i took outside of Saint Xavier. Then i copied in Lincoln and two of his friends. After adjusting the

 contrast and cleaning up around t

he edges i realized that nothing really in the picture lead my audience to believe it was in the modern era. So i copied a Saint Xavier sign in and made it read " Lincoln comes to SXU". This allows my audience to fully understand that he is in the modern era and is coming to a college to speak. This was only half of the picture since i did it on tabloid paper and wanted to portray the other side of lincoln. On the other side i used a picture i took in Hawaii as the background. Then i copied Lincoln and his two sons and wife, each seperatly, into the picture. I had to resize each person and adjust there colors and contrast to make it look like they were all the same. Again i didn'd get the feel of modern day so, i copied in a modern day sail boat to put in the ocean behind there family vaction picture. This all took alot of detailed erasing and alot of focus on contrast because in both sides of the picture i wanted to make sure that lincoln was the focus and not the extra things that i copied in the picture.

Compositon:

This time before selecting the two pictures i wanted to mash-up, I thought of a concept i wanted to convey and then wo

uld search for the perfect pictures to help me convey the message. I wanted to portray Lincoln's personality in todays era. I selected a picture i took of Saint xavier and mashed it with a picture of Lincoln and two of his friends and then selected a picture of Hawaii and four seperate pictures of Lincoln, two sons, and his wife.

Concept:

Unlike my first draft this final draft had a strong concept that i believe when people look at my photo can deffinatly understand what i'm trying to say. My overall concept is that if Lincoln was present today, he'd be the same man. He 

would be going to colleges and doing political speeches and expressing his beliefs across the world. On the other hand, he'd still be the family man, who would take his family to Hawaii for a vacation. The only thing i want to improve on my work if that the two pictures actually blend together so it can have the effect that these two pictures are one, just like the two sides of Lincoln (buisness/ political vs. family man) come together to make Lincoln such a great figure in history.