The Beagles

I found this image as a was scrolling through Pinterest. I think it is very humorous for anyone that knows a little bit about the Beatles. The photograph is the same setting as the cover of the Beatles album Abbey Road. The Beatles are so popular, even now, that this image and the type is very recognizable. I am not sure if we have any other band that has been as widely known for this length of time. I think it is great that just by using the same font as what the Beatles used, most people would associate it with the band. It shows how much the media has influenced our lives. We have seen the type and this image hundreds of times in our lives. The association of these things with the Beatles has ben burnt into out brain thanks to the media.

Ice Cream!

As Summer is getting closer, I am getting more ready to eat lots of ice cream! The thought of ice cream,  gelato in this case, is what attracted me to this photo. Besides the ice cream, I enjoy the thought of art created with food. People are constantly eating. Creating art with food, very easily gets art to be more common in everyday life. I think that art is everywhere, but not all people pay attention. If there were more foods that were artsy, it forces people to have to pay attention. 

Hot Air Balloons

This picture not only has really great color, but also two of my favorite things, silhouettes and reflection. I love silhouettes because it leaves it up to the viewer's imagination to figure out what the figures really look like. The artist isn't forcing them to see anything. The picture could be very different to every viewer. I also enjoy reflection in pictures because majority of the time it catches my eye first. Reflection, especially in this picture, can be very dramatic. The combination of color, silhouettes, and reflection in this piece creates a very beautiful scene.

Sculptris

Sculptris is a program for digital sculpting. Because I have done a lot of actual sculpting, I find this website very interesting. I know how challenging it can be, when working with clay, to get the exact look you want. You constantly have to be aware of how wet or dry the clay is, how thin or think it is, and how quickly it is drying. In sculptris, you are free of all of those worries, and you don't even have to get your hands dirty! My favorite part of the whole program is that you can make sure it symmetrical! Anyone that has worked with clay before knows how hard it is to make your creation completely symmetrical. Sculptris is a very fun and easy to use program. Here is the url: http://pixologic.com/sculptris/ Check it out!

Image, type, & Multiple Monochromatic

Here are my three designs for our second project in Art 101. I had a lot of fun putting these designs together. My goals was for all of my designs to look very different, and I think I was successful. These are the monochromatic parts of my design. Monochromatic was my favorite color scheme of the project. I thought the designs looked very nice with similar colors. I really enjoyed working on this project and getting more practice using smart objects. I would have completely hated this project if it wasn't for smart objects! my favorite design of the three is the peanut design. I like how it feels like the peanuts are flying at you, and i think it worked perfectly with the letter U design as well.

Smart Objects

In high school, I took all of the graphic design classes that were offered. I am amazed at how much I did not know after taking them. This semester, I have learned so much about Photoshop and Illustrator in Art 101. Knowing what I know now, I can't believe I made it through high school classes. I did everything the hard way! This semester we did a project called Type, Image and Multiple. We had to scan three different objects and make designs out of them. We then had to turn the objects into a type face to create the same design. In high school, I would have struggled though making every design separately. In Art 101 I learned how to make smart objects. It was one of the most fascinating pieces of information I have learned throughout the whole class. I love using them! They make my life as a designer so much easier. It is a lot easier to change and manipulate our design when you are using smart objects. I am very happy to have learned about this feature!

Contrast vs Color

I am very attracted to color in photographs. The first picture of the lion caught my eye, and I stared at it for a few minutes. I love the bluest blue of the sky, and the range of colors in the lion. I would love for all of my photographs to look like this.That is why I was very disappointed when the Professor of my photography class told us we would only be taking pictures in black and white. I thought the class would not be fun because I think looking at ordinary black and white photographs are boring. As the class went on, I found myself compensating for the lack of color with contrast. A photo with great contrast, to me, is just as spectacular as a photo with extraordinary color. I was felt the same about the second photograph and studied it just as long as I did with the first one. I was completely wrong about black and white photographs. I realized no matter what you are given to work with you have to make it extraordinary. It does not just start out that way.

 



My Style

When I saw this picture on the Internet, I instantly loved it. I am always very attracted to pictures with a narrow depth of field. In my photography class first semester, I found my style very quickly. I tend to make my focal point the largest compared to anything else, and make it the only in focus part of the picture. I find it interesting that I am always attracted to pictures that are similar to my style without even realizing it right away.

Tutorials

I love to use photoshop and illustrator, but unfortunately I do not always know how to create my ideas. When I can not figure something out, or just want to look for new ideas, I use tutorials. One of my favorite tutorial websites is photoshoptutorials.ws. It gives a wide variety of tutorials in all different categories. I especially like that it gives a range from basic to more experienced tutorials. Even though I have been using photoshop for a long time, I have nowhere near mastered it. I do not know some of the tools as well as others, so occasionally I need a more basic description of what to do. On this website, it also shows different things to download, creative inspiration and product reviews. This is a very helpful website if you are at a loss for ideas, or can not create exactly what you need. Check it out!

Movie Posters

 

These minimal movie posters caught my eye as I was surfing Pinterest. I thought it was neat that the images used to depict the movie are not the same as the original movie advertisements, in fact the are no even close. The posters really only contain the major idea of the movie, yet we still know exactly what the posters are portraying. If you have seen these movies at least once, you would recognize the symbol. I think it is interesting that in our society we see commercials and advertisements so regularly that it almost becomes burned into our brain. If these posters were used as the original advertisements, we probably would not recognize the more detailed posters were for the same movie. It is often easier to simplify something than it is to make it higher in detail.

Legos

I found this advertisement as I was wondering around Pinterest. This is a very interesting piece because it is very simple but successfully provokes thought. I initially got the idea that Legos, simple little toys separately, create extraordinary objects. The only thing that you must have to successful use Legos is imagination. Legos are advertised at the younger generation the majority of the time. Children and teens are the best people to use Legos because they have the widest imaginations. As we age, our imaginations shrink up, and our need for perfection increases. It is important to be reminded once in awhile that everything does not have to be perfect to be great.