painting assignment

The strongest technical aspect of my work was the usage of the pen tool.  It took me so many weeks to finally complete this assignment. The piece was very complicated because it needed the individual effort of grouping each color value and giving it a certain look with the tool.  I wanted the original picture to highly resemble the textured paining assignment.  At the end what I did to to make it seem different was go back and use the pen tool to add pen tool textures to each color value.  The fur of Stitch is fuzzy and the skin of Lilo is a bit darker yet smooth. The technical aspect I could have improved upon was the use of certain textures.  I still am a bit fuzzy on what each pen tool can do and exactly how to use them to make my work look unique and dimensional.

The easy part of the project was coloring in the areas of the marching ants the pen tool created.  When you use the pen tool it is easy to segregate certain values from others so that you can make sure each value is being appropriately represented in the work.  The barrier also prevents from coloring outside of the lines and creates a clean style. The most difficult piece part of the work was using the pen tool.  The pen tool is actually an easy tool yet it requires a surplus of patience.  Patience is something you really need to posses to be able to complete this assignment.

I demonstrated the objective in this art activity because I have different pen textures for each color value.  I also used severe different layers to capture each shade of the color so that Lilo's face would just be a peach, it had shadows where her skin had circles. I also made it so all the work wasn't all on one layer and you could remove the original piece without just covering the single layer. I also adapted different opacities  so that the color layers wouldn't just be bold over another and blend together. If I could do this art activity again I would originally add the textures so I don't have to go back and  paint several strokes over my work.

pop art

The strongest technical aspect of my assignment was my use of the desaturation tool and the pen tool.  In order to isolate the portrait from the background the first step was to draw an outline around the picture then invert the selection. Then after desaturating the portrait it was important to use the masking tool to color in bright vibrant features for the pop art design. The weakest technical aspect in this image was the use of the threshold tool. It was difficult to accurately capture Marilyn's facial features along when the detail was made too dark. If the deatil was there the shadowy look overwhelmed the sapces to put color in.

The easiest part of the project was the coloring in of the picture.  All you had to do was mask each layer and add in the desired pop of color.  When i selected what colors I wanted I based my choices off of her actual attire and what normal popart images look like created by Andy Warhol. The hardest part of the project was the pen tool.  For some reason I stuggled with double clicking and finding the make selection option.  This may seem like a very simple step yet each time I had to have assistance in fixing the issue.

The objective of the assignment was to create an image that would resemble that of Andy Warhol's along with demonstrate the importance of the pen tool.  I learned that you can create multi layer masks like the landscape project. Basically the main objective is just to learn and explore new
unfamiliar tools in the program of photoshop. If I were to change anything in this project I might
have selected a different more iconic picture of Marilyn because this picture ended up being a tad too dark for my personal preference.