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.