Self-Evaluation

I would have to say that my most significant accomplishment in my final would be that I was able to use different layer masks to create the background texture that I wanted.  I was also able to make only her look like she was digitized which I found greatly pleasing that I was now able to do that.  I was also able to further investigate my big idea of loneliness with the idea of being truly alone.  The picture that I chose was able to let me manipulate it in a way that made you feel that the girl sitting on the bench truly felt like she was disconnected with the rest of her body which would symbolize the world around her.

 At the beginning of the quarter I had a really hard time with making photos run smoothly into one another such as on the second midterm.  For some reason I was not able to get the angel in the corner to blend into the trees like I was able to do on the first midterm.  This was probably due to the color palate but it still frustrated me to no end.  I figured out the blur tool and the smudge tool to help in my endeavour to make the photos blend together seamlessly.

I feel that I was able to create more meaning with my Midterm #1 than I was able to with Quiz #4.  I was able to create a feeling of loneliness with the boy's posture (his head down), the overall color (the blues and purples) and the small angel that is above the crossed arms.  I feel like I was able to create a more meaningful work with the midterm than I was with the quiz.  In the quiz, I attempted to create a sense of excitement and I wanted to focus more on the action that was in the movie more than the romance.  I attempted this by changing the font of the title and making it stick out more.  I made the ship almost black to create a sense of eeriness along with the red background that blends into the couple who are in black and white.  I tried to make everything in more red tones to recreate the Expendables movie poster that was about action.  I feel as though I was able to achieve more meaning in my midterm than I was in my quiz because I was able to grasp what was being asked and run with it. 

Midterm #1



Quiz #4



Final Statement

My "Big Idea" is loneliness. The feeling of loneliness is when you feel disconnected from others and feel like we are empty. I first tried to do the idea of depression but learned that it was very difficult to pinpoint exactly what I wanted to portray in my art so I decided to choose something that was going to be more specific to depression which is the feeling of loneliness. I decided to do one work on loneliness in a crowd and then another work on someone who is literally alone. The one with loneliness in a crowd I chose a picture of some friends and I with one person who is in focus with the rest of us blurred out. With this person, I made him pop by making the blurred part of the picture a reddish tint and making him the only one in regular color. The artwork where the person is truly alone I had a picture of a friend sitting on a bench in the woods with her gazing off into the distance. I digitized her and made her black and white which makes it looks like the she is almost disconnecting from her body. I made the background a reddish tint as well so that she would pop more and the focus would be on her in the photo. I got the idea of the red background from Vanja Rancic's artwork in which she used black white and a red background in her work dealing with loneliness. The work will be used to show that even in a crowd someone can still feel a sense of loneliness just the same as if they were truly alone.

Research for Final

My "Big Idea" is loneliness.  The feeling of loneliness is when you feel disconnected from others and feel like we are empty.  I want to do one artwork on loneliness in a crowd and then another artwork on someone who is literally alone.  The one with loneliness in a crowd will be a group of people walking and then one person who looks like they are sad and do not want to be there.  With this person, I will make them pop with a red color and back the rest of the people fade out in the background so the main focus is on the person who feels alone.  The artwork where the person is truly alone I will have a black and white background of an old abandoned house with one person sitting alone.  I will try to use the digitize effect in which it looks like the person is disconnecting from their body.  The work will be used to show that even in a crowd someone can still feel a sense of loneliness just the same as if they were truly alone.

My "Big Idea" of loneliness was inspired by Vanja Rancic's paintings with the three central colors of black, white, and red from my last blog.  I was also inspired by the digitized photo I found off stumbleupon.com.  Another inspiration of mine was when I googled the term loneliness, most of the pictures that showed up were taken in black and white.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2cnh4N/www.digidiversity.co.uk/2010/05/creation-of-get-digitised-photoshop-cs-tutorial

Inspirational Artists

The first artists I chose was by the name of Vanja Rancic.  She worked with the theme of loneliness and human alienation.  I was drawn to her work because of the way the paintings came together in which the leading lines drew your eye to to two people fumbling around and then to the cities that lie in the background.  I wonder why the people are positioned the way they are and what the pipes are used for.  I am inspired by her use of the black, white and red colors which I will attempt to play with in my final works. 

http://www.artbabyart.com/foa/vanja/rancic.htm

The next artist I chose was Elena Dudina.  Her artwork appealed to me because of her use of the beauty of nature with the beauty of the women who seem to contort to their surroundings.  The fact that she chose a pretty landscape with the harsh white of the women's dresses catches my eye immediately.  I believe that her theme had something to do with beauty/majesty.  I question why the women are wearing what look like white sheets in the dark colors of the nature.  I will use the idea of choosing one color to pop out of my artwork to draw in the viewers eye. 

http://www.beautifullife.info/art-works/fantasy-art-illustrations-of-elena-dudina/

Quiz Four

I chose the two movie posters from Titanic with Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio and The Explendables with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone.  In the Titanic movie poster we are presented with light soft colors and a very simple scheme.  The target audience for this movie would be those people who are hopeless romantics and want a good love story.  There is the boat on the front that is the main part of the movie and then we also have the two main characters who are very close together.  The couple is on the top part of the poster with the boat beneath them.  The boat played a significant role in the couples meeting and also their ending of the relationship.  The boat signified their union together and when the boat went down, so did their love along with it.  The soft colors used on the poster are symbolic of a soft romance that is quite simple.  The Expendables movie poster is done with black, white, and red colors.  The target audience for this movie would be action seekers.  The harsh contrast between the black and white shows the difference with the background and the names of the actors in the movie.  The white draws your eye to see who the actors are and what the title of the movie is.  The black is the background with the man’s back facing towards the audience.  The man has the movie title tattooed on his back along with a crow that is perched on top of it.  When I think of tattoos I think of people who are more dangerous and live life on the edge.  So when I see this movie poster I think that there is going to be some awesome action scenes with a badass guy in the movie.  There is a clear difference between the two movie posters in that the one is done with very soft and light colors and the other is done with harsh blacks and whites.  Another difference between the two is that the one has a picture of a couple close together and the other has the picture of a tattooed man by himself.  This makes me think that one is going to be romantic and the other is going to have a lot of action.

Midterm Project

  My big idea is Depression and the feeling of being alone. I realized that there is more to depression than the eye sees.  I focused more towards the theme of being alone because that is what most people think when others say that they are depressed.  The feeling of being alone intrigued me because there are so many people in this world and yet there are some of us who feel that we are the only ones.  I explored the idea of Depression and being alone by choosing one single person in a vast background such as on a train track or out in the woods.  The person is completely alone but there is one little girl that appears in both works who is in a sense “watching over them.”  The hands in the one photo are attempting to keep the world from falling down on the boy whereas the trees are doing such in the other photo.  Other objects surround them both trying to keep the world from crashing down on them but they still have the feeling of being alone in the world.  This topic is of great importance to me because I have a friend who is going through depression and I wanted to research the idea of depression and what goes on in a persons head who has depression.

Big Idea: Depression and its causes