What A Long Strange Trip Its Been

For the exam, we were supposed to fill at least 24 and no more than boxes with images and fill the rest with whatever we chose. I had the idea of incorporating all my previous projects into it, and managed to to use almost all of them. I quoted the Grateful Dead to represent how my art has developed from taking pictures of the internet, to being able to create my own. Since my art is often...stranger than most, i chose that certain quote. Some of the requirements were a lot harder to find than i had previously thought, such as the custom shape tool. All in all, i am very happy with it. The only thing i regret was not having more projects.

Filtered Portrait

The filtered portrait was just one picture with multiple filters placed on top. I liked it because it was a fairly quick project, and i enjoyed it. I had a little bit of trouble with making the picture look clean but other wise it was a fun project. A bigger selection of filters would've been better but otherwise i really liked it.

Art News Review

Two of the pictures that inspired me in art news were Leon Ferrari's La Civilización Occidental y Cristiana and Herbert Bayer's Formation. I liked the former because it showed how western civilizations mentality towards other it based off its main religion, and how it uses it as an exscuse for its own actions. It inspired me because it shows how art can be used to protest. I liked the latter just because it seemed cool, and it inspired me because it shows that abstract art doesn't have to have a point.

Kaleidoscope

For this project, we used a tutorial to try and create a kaleidoscope out of an image we had. Instead of picking one of the internet, I used my marla painting because i thought it would be something i could call  my own instead of just copying and pasting. The tutorial was fairly easy to use, and i was able to work along with it a a decent speed. It seemed surprisingly easy to do for something that looked so complicated. Im pretty happy with how this turned out.

Art Site Review

Out of all the sites we visited, i liked photofunia the most because they had the most filters. They also had hd filters, and other content. The other sites had similar options, but they weren't as interesting or required enough work that it'd be easier and better just to use photoshop to do them.

Marla Painting

The marla painting was just a quick abstract work that we were supposed to do after we had watched he documentary. i didn't like this project as much because i don't really enjoy abstract art as much as other types, but it was fairly easy to do

Greeting Card

I had a lot of stuff on my desktop, so to save time i started placing two pieces at a time. For the greeting card, i just did a quick little one for the holidays. I like it because its general enough to apply to all the holidays, not matter what you celebrate.

Comic

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