Back in #000000

After a seemingly short Spring Break, I'm back with conviction to get my projects done.

So I've managed to get some things done on the first part of Project 3. I've chosen the energy drink Bawls as an inspiration for my two works. My three general points of inspiration I'm drawing from the product are the shape of the bottle, color of the packaging, and the title of the product.

As you can tell I'm rendering many ellipses, drawing from the "bawls" title, and the silhouette of the bottle.

My next part of the work will be more singular in nature focusing on one large object.

SNOW DAY!

I LOVE SNOW DAYS!

Class cancelled...I love sleeping in...

Text Portraits

So this assignment has to have been the most interesting, but most cumbersome. It's a really simple concept, I know. But trying to illustrate things like depth and value with only text becomes significantly more difficult. While I'm proud of what I've done, the time limit and availability severely restricted the opportunities I had to really fine tune and enhance the piece.

Pictures will be coming shortly.

Project 1 - complete

After much deliberation over what I was going to do my first photoshop project on I decided there'd be no better subject than my own passion for computers that drew me into digital media in the first place.

My compilation consists of the original computers I had used in grammar school, followed by the high-powered gaming oriented PC's. My last picture consists of the first two being developed on a photoshop desktop.

It was a fun exercise but it didn't really take too much effort to develop. I hope to be able to make more elaborate works by the end of the year.

Step One

So we're starting our foray into Photoshop. I'm kinda of nervous because I don't know exactly what to do for our first project. While I have some clues, I'm not sure I can really render them well with photoshop.

Granted, I've been doing pretty well with photoshop and my Wacom tablet doing line art portraits of my friends such as the one on the left. But that's just the doing of just the pen tool. Incorporating other tools is going to be pretty difficult.

Art with Computers!?

That's crazy! Preposterous! Inconceivable!

Everyone knows that the only real way to make art is with one's hands, with paint on a canvas, or clay, or charcoal, or metal. But computers? 'Tis a silly idea. I mean, why do in minutes with a computer what it would take hours or days to do by hand? Everyone knows that if the process isn't tortuous, then it's not REALLY art, am I right? Let's be honest, the computer removes the skill from art. It surely must make creating art easier, as it has done for EVERYTHING else, right?
/sarcasm

My personal interest in digital media serves as a counter-point to that misconception that computers don't make art. I've seen what people can do and I hope to be able to do the same, considering I spend most of my time in front of a computer already.

First you will look here...

Then you will look here...