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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

This artwork was all about burger king. We used photo shop to replicate Andy Warhol's artwork. We first had to get an image of an icon of the Internet. Then we had to use the effect of Neon Glow (top right image). Then we had to use a background for the same icon (top left image). Then we used the icon inside the text (middle right image). We then used an effect which in this case was the colored pencil effect, and using the mask, we unveiled the true identity of some parts of the image (middle left image). After that, we used made another image of the icon inside the text (middle right image). We then used an image inside the icon (bottom right image). The next image was free choice and I used the liquefy effect (bottom left image). From this project, I learnt how to use photo shop quite efficiently.

This project reminds me of all the fast food ads that I see on television. If I had the chance to redo this whole project, I would likely redo the pictures with the Burger King logo over another fast food logo. From doing this project, I am now familiar with Andy Warhol and how he redefined the word, 'pop-art'.
As I was doing this project, I was amazed at how many different things could be done on just one program. Once started on this project, I was able to identify art by Andy Warhol. At first, I started off just coloring parts of the Burger King icon, but soon I abandoned that idea and started working on the icon and the background. I am absolutely satisfied with the way this project turned out because it is my first time working with photo shop.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Bags


We have just recently finished our project of bags. To make this we first sketched out the shape of our bag onto a piece of paper. Then we got a small square and folded it in half and then half again forming a smaller square. On the small square tile, I put random lines and curves onto it. I opened it so that it becomes a rectangle and the design onto that side I did this on the other side too. It is like making a small square in my other project: Tessellation. I then placed the small square onto the belly of my bag and traced it. You can easily see which parts are my design. During this process, I learned how to draw a backpack. In this project, I used repetition this in using the same tile square over and over again.

This project reminds me of Batiks (Batik's are these indonesian traditional clothing) because they have intricate designs on them and the design has been repeated many times. If I were to do this project differently, I would have used different colors in the tessellation (the design). I took away using tessellations in everyday objects, like, in this case a bag.

I felt great doing this project maybe because my sketch of the bag was so good. I further developed my ideas from outlining my tessellation to not outlining my tessellation. I was quite satisfied in this because the final result was quite good.