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.