Wednesday, January 25, 2017
mixed media
Reflection
Questions:
I think the
strongest area in my project is the illustrator portion of the picture. The
gradient tool was tricky to use at first but it ended up being the best part of
the picture. Another strong area of my work is the pen tool. The pen tool allowed
the images to have a clean outline and then allowed me to fill the image with
the gradient color. An area of my work that could be improved on is the drawing
part. Because of the picture I chose, some parts of the picture were difficult
to draw. Next time I plan to choose a simpler picture with easier parts to
draw.
The easy
part of this activity was drawing and coloring the image. This part was easy
because all I had to do was trace the images I selected and then color them in.
The difficult part of the activity was outlining some of the images with the
pen tool. This was because sometimes in would fill in things I didn’t want to
be filled in, and then the line would get messed up and then I would have to
start over. There was a lot of trial and error, but I got the hang of it in the
end.
The
materials that I used for this project were the free transform tool, the crop
tool, the pen tool, the gradient tool, the magic wand, and the paint brush
tool. I also used colored pencils to color the drawing portion. I used the free
transform tool to arrange the images around in the right place. I used the crop
tool to make pictures smaller so that they could fit together, then the pen
tool to outline the images to add gradient color, the magic wand to select the
images, and then the paint brush tool color in the pictures I outlined.
I
demonstrated the objective of the activity by making a mixed media image by
implementing three images that are colored and hand drawn, and three other
pictures that I created digitally using the pen tool in illustrator. And then I
put them together to match up. If I did this activity again I would choose a
simpler picture to use.
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