Blog #5

1.     1.  My most significant accomplishment after completing the midterm and the final is my better understanding and practice of Photoshop tools. There are so many different techniques I saw with my classmates and the artists that I looked that there wasn’t really just one that I could focus on. The biggest accomplishment in my midterm was trying to use adjustments and trying to make everything in my image flow together. The biggest thing in my final, other than actually finding a big idea, was using adjustments and patch tools to try and make the parts seamlessly blend together.

2.    2.   The biggest challenge for me was the movie poster project and trying to change the target audience. I understood the concept and what needed to be accomplished I just didn’t know which two posters were complete opposites and how to approach it. The next most challenging thing this quarter had to have been the final. It was probably the most difficult because I had troubling finding or grasping onto to a big idea and also the challenge of using 100% your own material was also a fun and interesting challenge.

3.   3.     The two projects I would compare and contrast would have to be the movie poster quiz and the magazine quiz. They were very similar in that you didn’t use your own images and you had to combine images in such a way to make it believable and or attract a certain audience. The concepts were the same to me and they were both quite challenging. The way they are different was that they were conducted at two completely different times in the course, so there were different and or better skill levels use on each one. There were more tools available and more techniques that have been and or could have been mastered. 

Final Artist Statement

My final project is based off of the big idea of perception. To be more specific I focused on how the senses perceive things around. I wanted to show that each of the senses perceive things each individually and also as one. In my first image I wanted to show the sense being used from a different perspective and in the second image it narrows down and focuses on one sense. I wanted to use human manipulation in this project because it interests me and I believe that it is very attracting and eye catching. 

Artist Statement - Perception

I did not do much research for my final project. I had a hard time coming up with a big idea but when it hit me I hit a brick wall. My big idea is sort of related to my original one from the midterm, which was uncertainty (as shown through religion), but now it is perception. The idea of perception and how a person perceives things can both very particular and ambiguous. I am trying to show how the senses perceive things together and as a individual sense. The things that drove my techniques were mainly human manipulation and that ‘double-take’ factor.

 Here are some other photoshop techniques that use human manipulation.

http://wparena.com/inspiration/creative-photoshop-human-body-photo-manipulation/
http://thedesignmag.com/32-excellent-photoshop-photo-manipulation-tutorial.html

http://www.splashnology.com/blog/tutorials/367.html

Poster Collage Quiz 4

The two movie posters I chose were Paranormal Activity and Finding Nemo. The Finding Nemo poster attracts a younger more fun loving crowd with its bubbly ocean characters and there is a lot going on in the image. The colors within this poster are very vibrant and attract a lot of attention all over the poster. In the Paranormal Activity poster it uses a very dramatic scene and very monochromatic ‘video camera’ look in the image. There is more textual part to his poster than the Finding Nemo, because it was made for more a thrill seeking more mature audience.  They both have a blue color scheme but they are used in completely different ways. The tone of the Paranormal Activity poster is very intense, because it is an intense scene in the movie; while all of the characters are all brought to together in one image in the Finding Nemo poster.

***I did have access to photoshop at this time to compress my Quiz 4 in order to put it on this blog***

blog #3

My two artists are Igor Staritsin and Marco Escobedo. They are both very talented photoshop  artists, and both have very visually appealing collections of art that inspires me.
First is Igor Staritsin, he uses sketches he makes and photoshop to create these fantasy like setting that are very cool. If I could have any job in the world it would be to have the talent to render and create scenery like this for videogames or just for storybooks/telling. That is if  I had the talent. His drawing inspire me because i like to draw and he actually includes the use of photoshop, which i also like into his work.

Second is artist Marco Escobedo, his work is also in photoshop and he uses photo manipulation of mainly people which i fidn to be the funnest and most intersting thing you can do in photoshop. A lot of his work, from his website, is very dark and seems to have a darker meaning behind each piece. 

Midterm Artist Statement-David Weis

The big idea behind my midterm is uncertainty as seen as a whole and the question of 'why?'. I feel that anyone and everyone's statement, that is based on opinion, can be contradicted by the simple question of why. The way certain objects or views of the object stick or are more particular to everyone in their own way. The clash and mix of different emblems or details provides a questioning look of how all of the elements work together or not. To question what people actually believe in what is just the show and tell art of each religion. Different viewers will be drawn to different parts of the image and everyone will pay more attention to what they want to pay attention to at first. Uncertainty of life is what I truly believe that drives all peoples motives in life what they wish to do and or practice. The topic of religion, the uncertainty behind and its values, is very controversial and a real mind boggling thing to my life and how people around are effected by it. The rationalities and the unanswered questions is what draws me to continually bring up the topic and try and learn more about it. I am really intrigued by what lengths people in today's society go to learn more and more about the unknown and the big question is 'why?'. Nothing has happened in my life so far, and it may be because I am too young, but nothing in my life that has alter my life and or religious views and all of the knowing information behind every idea that is out drives to discover it.

Brainstorm Big Idea: Artist Statement

My big idea is Uncertainty, as shown through religion. One of the theme in my brainstorm is the mix and clash of different religions and how they show similarities and differences. Another theme that can be seen is questioning. To question what people actually believe in what is just the show and tell art of each religion. Different viewers will be drawn to different parts of the image and pay more attention to certain details. The unwary face and questioning looks show the uncertainty behind the thought of what religion might be all about. Is the point religion to fear death, the power of god, the practice and worship, or is it just the morals and teachings behind it all. The topic of religion, the uncertainty behind and its values, is very controversial and a real mind boggling thing to my life and how people around are effected by it. The rationalities and the unanswered questions is what draws me to continually bring up the topic and try and learn more about it.