Poster and T-shirt: Tattered Seams

My Creative prosess, of my poster, started with an initial idea of a lone circus tent, later changing it to the jack in the box pasted above. My t-shirt design was started and finished with the same design, a sign that semi resembles a tiger head. For the t-shirt, we were given the task of creating a shirt using only two colours, I originally had three colours, cutting it down, to what is pasted above, later. I chose to do a more sign design because, I wanted to do more of a traditional family circus shirt. For the poster, I wanted to go for more of an upbeat exterior but if you were to look at it for too long it could possibly give you a feeling of discomfort, I'm happy on how it came out, I think I executed it pretty well. I decided to use Adobe Illustrator for both because I find it an easier program to use for posters and logos e.t.c unlike Adobe Photoshop. For my shirt, I traced the outline of a circus ticket sign, but the interior was my own design, the inside shape is just a shrunken verson of the outline filled and coloured orange. For my poster, like I said, was originally a lone circus tent, but with some peir critisisum, I changed it to the jack in the box here. I used the pen tool for all of the shapes, and used my favourite kind of logo and poster design, flat design to create my poster. I had to keep moving points around because, he took a while to create and finnish. I am very satisfied by my final products on both my shirt and poster. I think they potray the play pretty well, but that is pretty bias as I spent so much time looking at it.

Kinetic Typography

         I liked this kinetic typography of Rap God by Eminem. I think that the speed and timing of this specific kinetic typography was paced very well, as this song is a very fast paced song, I think the animator did an amazing job at getting the words out on each of the syllables. The movement of the text go from being a constant shaking to being formed into different pictures, but they have a large energy feel, and the constant movement helps this. A good amount of the emphasized words were chosen to be made the pictures of the object, an example is when Eminem says the line:
"Me, I'm a product of Rakim Lakim Shabazz, 2Pac, N-W-A., Cube, hey, Doc, Ren Yella, Eazy, thank you, they got Slim" 
This was emphasized by putting all these rappers faces instead of their individual names. This kinetic typography is unified by mainly using three colours, Red, White, and Black. the font choice was good for this type of song, because it's a very powerful font as it is bold, and caps throughout. the overall design is all over, exactly like this song, so it works.

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In My Head - Culminating Project

This piece is called "In My Head" which I did for my culminating project.  The point of our culminating project was to choose something that mattered to us.  I chose one of the biggest parts of my life, drawing.  I chose drawing because I have drawn for the majority of my life.  I wanted to show what it is like to be in my head whilst I draw.  So I took a picture of my closest friend to portray myself and placed some of my quick drawings around him. 

My intended message was that while I draw, many images go through my mind.  I wanted to show some of the drawings that can, and will, come out of my mind and onto the page.

The photo I used is a picture of my friend looking focused towards the page of a sketchbook and drawing.  I surrounded him with some of the artwork I drew for this assignment.  I decided to put my drawings in these places because I needed to, somehow, show my drawings come to "life" and surrounding me.

My procedure was to start with my idea.  I was lucky, since I had come up with it earlier.  I started by sketching an idea in my sketchbook.  It was a sketch of a person drawing with their sketches coming out of their head.  After I came up with the idea, it was picture time.  I chose to set up my picture inside of our classroom where we take portraits.  My friend sat down and I asked him to look like he was drawing in my sketchbook.  I took one vertical and one horizontal shot and felt that I had what I needed.  Then I imported the photos that I took and chose the best one.  I then brought my selected picture into Photoshop.  The next step I did was I quick selected the photo of my friend and made a new layer and pasted it.  Under that layer, I made a new layer and coloured it blue.

Next, I had to draw the original drawings outside of the computer.  Once they were done, I scanned them into the computer.  I then dragged the scanned drawings and placed them one by one into Photoshop.  The next step was to trace the original images and colour them in.  To do this I had to create a new file in Photoshop for each image and then add a layer for tracing and then a layer to colour it in.  This took a few days as I was tracing multiple images.  In the end I had 10 files to add to my original picture.

The last step to my process was to add the drawings to the photo.  To do this I selected around each drawing and pasted it into the original picture file.  I then moved them and sized them until I liked how it looked.  For example, at first I placed the boxer behind my friends back but then I didn't like how it looked so I placed him between his arms so it looked like he was standing on the table.  I then made a layer under the dinosaur and the lizard and lowered the opacity to 56% and drew smaller circles than the actual body and coloured them in black in order to create a shadow.

In the end, my surrealism picture has a total of  15 layers.

During this assignment I have learned a bit about myself.  One thing I have learned is that the thoughts that I have while I draw and generally think are many.  In the making of this project I took a lot of time to myself and just thought about more things.  In my opinion I have connected more with myself and grown some self awareness of myself.

I am very happy with how my culminating project turned out.  The topic I chose is, I believe, one, if not the only, more upbeat topics that has been chosen by the year one CyberARTS class for our culminating assignments.  Although it was a long process I feel the outcome reflects what I was aiming for.

This is, I think, my last post for at least awhile.  So, when I get back on, I'll post some improved artwork for all you peoples to see.

- GT
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Surrealism Project ~ Salvador Dali

Link to the presentation: https://prezi.com/vsvhptjecuv3/surrealism-project/