Post-it Note Project: Paul Walker

The post-it note project is a portrait of a person made entirely out of sticky notes. We took a picture of Paul Walker and altered it in Photoshop. We changed the contrast, color scheme, and pixel size. After printing this picture, my group used half of the face as a guide. Each pixel of color represented one sticky note. We filled the whole poster with sticky notes and hung it in the Cary Towne Mall :-)

Frame Photoshop

Morgan let me borrow a picture of her stepping into/ out of a frame. In Morgans picture, the light source is coming from the left. So, the image i chose has a light source on the left. I first used the Polygonal Lasso Tool to remove the background of the frame picture. I couldn't get all of the strands of Morgan's hair, so i used the Blur Tool at a low opacity. This blended the frame picture into the background. I also created a shadow. i rock. I used the shadow from the frame picture and made it a new layer. I made it the same size and shape as the shadow from the frame picture but i changed the color so that it was more realistic. Morgan is pretty. The sunset it also pretty. This shows Morgan's traits.

Newimal

I photoshopped this hippo head onto a seal's body.

The animal that I had for my AOIT zoo project is a sea lion. The sea lion is sitting on that rock. I love hippos and the hippo has the same body texture as a sea lion, so I put it's head on there. I used the Polygonal Lasso Tool to remove the background of the hippo picture. Then, I blurred the two pictures  together with the Blur Tool to make it look more realistic.

Sea lions are cool.

I hope our project is, too!!

Forced Perspective

       

Morgan, Hallie, Caitlin and I worked on capturing forced perspective photographs. We "spray painted" a cloud and stepped on each other.

Thats my foot in the second picture:))

Painting

1.) What does DPI stand for and what is the difference between a low DPI like 72 and a high DPI like 600?
DPI stands for 'Dots per Inch'. This is used to measure the resolution of an online image when printing.72 dots per inch will take less time to print but is at a lower quality. The printer only prints 72 pixels per square inch and can not usually display the image at its actual size. Higher DPI like 600 will take more ink and take longer to print, but it will be a much higher quality. The printer will print 600 pixels per square inch. The colors will blend more smoothly and the tonality will be better.

2.) What is an aperture and what do the different f stop settings mean?
Aperture is the unit of measurement that defines the size of the opening in the lens of a camera. This can be adjusted to control the amount of light reaching the film or digital sensor. The different F-stop settings are the steps of ratios of the lens's length to the diameter of the pupil of the eye. Its numbers represent a measure of the lens's speed. Each number represents half of the light intensity from the previous number.

3.) What is shutter speed and what difference does it make?
Shutter speed is the length of time that the shutter is open. It can either freeze an object in place or create a blurred image.

4.) What is ISO in photography?
ISO is the sensitivity of the camera to the available light. The lower ISO, the less sensitive the camera is to the light.

I wanted to do something simple for my painting so I chose a beach landscape. To show depth, I am going to do a large palm tree coming up from the bottom of the canvas into the middle. The pictures show my painting process. I started with the sunset and blended the sky. Then I did the clouds that are bad. Then I did the water with sunlight shining on it. I need to add waves and the palm tree to be finished!!

 

The link to my Pinterest board about paintings is below:

https://www.pinterest.com/marykatewalden/paintings/

Comic Strip Project- Cartoon Final

I drew a comic about bread. It wanted to sunbathe but got sunburnt. I used crosshatching and blending of watercolor to display the pictures.

Comic Bones Project

For this project, I chose the animated character Simba, from The Lion King, to draw bone structure. I used a similar structure to that of an actual lion cub's skeleton. The first picture is a traced copy of Simba on a translucent sheet of paper. After coloring it to match the animated character, I outlined Simba again and drew his bones.

What is the difference between anime and manga?

Anime, which comes from the word 'animation', is a TV show or animated cartoon. Manga is a graphic novel with similar looking characters.

What is the difference between graphic novels and comic books?

Graphic novels are a longer composition with a complex storyline, or plot. Comic books has several short plots within its composition.

How are panels designed and lay out in comic books, newspapers and graphic novels?

The author of a comic book often chooses how to lay out the panels within the story. Newspaper cartoonists often have one row of the same sized panels in order to maximize space for other information or cartoons. In graphic novels, there is more  creativity in panel size and shape because the story is longer.

I also created a board on pinterest where I researched different animated characters, or comics.

The link to my pinterest board is https://www.pinterest.com/marykatewalden/comic/