Overview
In Ninth Grade Digital Arts here at Animas, we use computers to compose different pieces of art. The main component, or tool, we use, is Photoshop. Photoshop is a fun, sometimes hilarious, program that allows you to alter or create text, images, etc. Of course, I have never used Photoshop before in my life, so I am still getting the hang of it. However, I am already able to distort images beyond my own imagination. This program can be very complex, and I am therefore not completely familiar with it. All in all, Digital Arts has so far been a fun, interactive, and completely new form of creating art.
Here is just a slideshow of a few of my pieces of work completed in Digital Arts.
Understanding Light As a major part of Digital Arts, my class and I looked at a video, shown below, about tips and tricks for capturing, or altering light for photography. This was very important to us as students, because photography is a huge part of art today. This video describes hard light, soft light, reflected light, and action photography. To get a detailed description of each of these, please watch the video, and become a more experienced photographer!
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Teacher-Animal Project
As one of the first photoshop projects we have done as a class, the Teacher-Animal project was a very exciting, fun project. We had to take one of our teachers' faces, and copy and paste them onto a picture of an animal's body, or that of another human. But that wasn't as easy as it seems. We also had to use photoshop to texturize the teacher's face to fit in with the body. It took a lot of work using the extensive list of tools to make the pictures look realistic.
Seen in the picture on the left, I used the body of a goldfish to go with my physics teacher's face. Also, I had to texturize, color, burn, dodge, and filter his face to make it look as though it matches his body. Beyond that, I had to create gills to place on his face. Also, for a more artistic look, I saturated and curved the colors in the background to better contrast the body of the goldfish.
Seen in the picture on the left, I used the body of a goldfish to go with my physics teacher's face. Also, I had to texturize, color, burn, dodge, and filter his face to make it look as though it matches his body. Beyond that, I had to create gills to place on his face. Also, for a more artistic look, I saturated and curved the colors in the background to better contrast the body of the goldfish.
Text Transformation!
1. Gel Text
To make this "H" look as though it has the consistency of gel, I had to go through an elaborate process on photoshop of color changes, text settings and manipulation, and more. Although it seems as though it could be a simple task to complete, it was much harder than I could have thought. In fact, the other two transformations seemed a landslide more simplistic than this one.
2. Image-To-TextI put this image as the second image, because I find it to be the second most challenging task to complete within the Text Transformation Category. With this also came great elaboration, as well as a good lesson for photoshop in the future. What I did, pretty much, was select the interior of the text (in this case displaying my name), then pasted it on an image. After that, I deleted the rest of the image surrounding the new text to show a beautifully colored text.
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3. Transparent Text
Because I, personally, found this one of the easiest Text Transformation tasks we completed as a class, I put it third on the list. But it was still a burden to complete. For each of these, we all followed step-by-step procedures until each task was complete. For this image, I had to mess around with the transparency of the text, as well as the coloring of the image behind it to make it seem as though the text is barely there. But it is still readable.
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Here is just a layout of all the Text Transformation Projects subjected to one page.
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The Color Wheel
http://www.tigercolor.com/color-lab/color-theory/images/color-wheel-300.gif
As a part of learning more about art today, we have created color wheels out of the basic colors of paint, and brushed different colors together to make more various colors. We also learned about several categories of color: Complementary color sets, Monochromatic color, analogous color sets, and warm/cool colors.
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Complementary Color Sets: on the basic color wheel, there are 3 sets of complementary colors. These sets are composed of 2 colors each that are on exact opposite sides of the wheel. The sets include: Red and Green, Purple and Yellow, and Orange and Blue.
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Monochromatic Color: Monochromatic color in an image consists of the same basic color, usually different shades or hues of this color, spread out across mainly the entire image. The example to the left gives a great example of this.
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Analogous colors: Analogous colors, although not the same as monochromatic, these colors all fit into one of three categories of the basic colors in the color wheel, each category consisting of three basic colors. The example to the right provides example of analogous colors within the red, orange and yellow range and category.
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Here are examples of warm and cool colors, 1 each. They display the characteristics of each of these 2 color categories, cool colors consisting of the basic colors blue, purple, and green. Warm colors consist of the basic colors yellow, red, and orange. However, there are many more warm and cool colors like these, such as violet and pink. All you have to do is mix up some of the basic colors to achieve the look of more specified colors.
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Here is just a simple animation we did as a part of learning to create animation in Digital Arts
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Prehistoric Evolution of Hunting Flash Animation
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Project Description Q & Aa. Something that blew your mind from lecture
b. Your process learning Flash c. Your favorite part of Adobe Flash and why you like it d. Explain a time/project when you see yourself using Flash again a. I think that learning about the evolution of the human brain really sparked something in me that was just amazed. It wasn't the fact that it took so many years, but the fact that it even did, and in such an interesting way. I found it amazing that people were able to realize what things looked like, then represent them through art, with such a mis-developed brain. b. I actually learned Flash first last year in 8th grade, but that mostly just taught the basics, such as creating something as simple as a ball being thrown against a rectangle. But this year, we explored more into shape tweening and motion tweening, which are tools in Flash that allow you to turn objects into other things, or move them fluently across the screen. c. My favorite part about Adobe Flash would definitely have to be the fact that I'm allowed to explore more into the creation of animation. As a young child, I had always watched Disney animated movies, and really enjoyed them, but always questioned how they were made. It seemed so complicated, and I found out recently that it really is, beyond even what I'd thought before. d. I see myself simply using Flash on my free time if possible, just because I loved using this wonderful, fun, amazing software. |
Manufactured Human Beings
This is a photoshopped document I created in Digital Arts describing how people in Brave New World are manufactured in factories, instead of being born out of a mother. I took a bunch of photos I found on the internet and pasted and warped them to make a human being.
