photfuniapicture-akira poster

For this assignment we had to choose one photo-editing sites, chose one of the pictures shown in the site that would go well with our own picture. I just finished reading a book about the artwork of a famous manga series that is very interesting and the illustrations are amazingly detailed. I chose one of the illustrations and thought it would look cool in a public place as a sort-of poster. I really like the way it looks in that setting and I might have found another illustration which might have looked better, but its pretty good.

abstract painting project nov.2011

This assignment was based off of a movie we watched in class about a little girl at the age of 4 who made abstract paintings that became very popular and eventually began to sell for tons of money. We had to do our own abstract painting with lots of colors blended together and at first I just played around for a while, experimenting with various colors, using tools to manipulate them, and trying to make it more appealing each time. While I was creating my image I used my knowledge of spray painting by adding layers and blending colors the same way someone would spray paint. With spray painting if the can is spraying close to a wall the more thick the paint is and further away from it will fade around the edges and not drip. I found that the paint tool on the photoshop format is very similar to a spraypaint can with the way it fades around the edges and a softer look to it. I like the outcome of my work and I think my choice of colors was perfect. I cant say there would be anything that I would do differently next time because it is abstract and that's kind of hard to change

Four Square

This assignment was called four square and we had to choose some images and fit four of them on a 8 by 8 inch canvas. I thought a lot about what I could use and finally I choose some images from some favorite movies of mine. They are all animation and the art work is so well done and cool that it just worked perfectly. Some of the filters I used didn't work so well on some of them, especially the top left and bottom right images that are from the same movie Akira(1988) so I used a filter that barely disrupts all the cool details. Maybe next time I will do just one image from the movie Akira and play around with that. The top left image is from an animated series called Cowboy Bebop(1998)and the bottom left image is from another anime called Dallos(1983).

samurai champloo poster

For this assignment we were supposed to go to wordle.com and write a bunch of words that would then be mixed into a collage and then fill them into the silhouette of a picture. I tried using lots of pictures, but after experimenting with them I felt unsatisfied and I kept trying to find something better. Finally I had come across a picture that looked like it would really work well, not just because of the great silhouette, but also because of the cool words I could use with it. The genre of anime which this show, Samurai Champloo falls into was my inspiration to create this and the creativity of Japanese art in general. This piece didn't take me too long which was a relief and the process was very simple and easy to do. If I was to do something like this again I think the thing that I would do different next time would be to control the placing of the words and making them blend really well with the picture.