The strongest technical aspect of my work is color balancing and overlapping my art. It took a long time to accurately balance the color schemes so that no color would be repeating or touching that shared the same value. My overlapping was also a key feature because I needed to have a visually pleasing relationship between the background and the inside additions. The technical aspect that I can improve on is the size differences in images. I find it hard to sometimes made different images different shapes and sizes. I like to have consistency in my work but I need to learn how to change my point of view on having different sized objects.
The easy part of the art activity was adding new items to my collage. In photoshop there are different techniques in adding pictures to a layer. You only need to select a large sized photo so that it will have the best resolution for expanding and shrinking the image. For removing background from an image there is a fairly simple technique of taking the selected figure and adding a background color to it. From there then you have to just use the magic wand tool and choose the color and click delete. The last step is simply to just deselect the object. The hardest part of the activity was close cropping the cleats of my collage. It took me a full period to zoom in and use the polygon lasso to remove all the grass that was in the entire background of the background photo. The work was pretty tedious so that it was frustrating to complete. However, once it was all removed I could fill the center of the collage with all of my own personalities.
In this project I demonstrated the objective of reflecting my personal identity by basing my entire project on my favorite sport soccer. I managed to incorporate all different elements of the sport to show what were the things I associate with the sport of soccer. If I could do this activity again I would have picked a whole different theme. The soccer theme was hard to follow through with because I thought it would have more to it than it really offered. I like the idea of having vaguer theme that would have functioned like an umbrella. I should have picked an idea like Fall or Winter where multiple different contacts could have fit under.
Brie, Your work is vey dynamic and energetic. I like how the girl is breaking the plane of the ring of sneakers and how " soccer" overlaps everything creating a foreground. You did an excellent job gathering, coloring, and placing images to create a well balanced piece.
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