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.