Holiday Cards

At our school, the leadership class proposed sending holiday cards to the soldiers in Afghanistan. I created two cards to be apart of this project, one wishing them a happy holiday, and the other wishing them a happy new year.

Jerry Uelsmann

This project was very frustrating for me to do. It was inspired by the artist, Jerry Uelsmann, who has the general style of taking two different settings and combining them into one image. For this project, I took an old, antique-type room, and combined it with a beach setting. It was simple for me to accomplish in the first room that is closest to the artist, but the back room was more difficult. The lighting in the rooms caused some need for shadowing in the second room in order for it to look farther away. I tried to accomplish this by darkening the layer, but it still didn't quite turn out as I was expecting.

Trailside Art Show 2012

This is a simple flyer for the Trailside Art Show that is coming up for WAHS. I didn't add much on the flyer, because I didn't want it to be too busy, considering that there is already so much text that is necessary for the flyer. I think it would have been cool if we had approached this similar to last year, where we had some of the artwork that was going to be in the show, so we could include it in our flyer. I would have liked to make it the background to the flyer, or at least include them in some way, so viewers could get a chance to look at the artwork coming up in the show.

Warhol

For this project, I took an image, copied it four times into a photoshop document. I turned the threshold on in the picture using the threshold feature under adjustments. Following that, I took some of the natural colors from the original picture and used those to dye each individual frame. The blue comes from his shirt and jeans, and the greens come from his hat and the grass in the background.

Six Images

This project is a series of six images, each telling their own story as a part of the movie, or the movie's themes. I chose to go with all black and white images. All these images are from the actual Rwanda Genocide. Some of them are children, some are families, and all of them all share their own story. Each one tells or shows something that's of worth. All of them really make you stop and think about how The Genocide really affected the people. They show the emotion that goes along with the story.

Movie Poster

For this project, we were supposed to make an original movie poster for Hotel Rwanda. I chose to use images that are pulled from actual scenes in the movie. I centered the poster on one image. This image shows the main character standing in front of his people. I especially liked this one because it showed his leadership throughout the movie.

One word.

Following the viewing of Hotel Rwanda in class, we were given a list of three projects to do as a reflection to the movie. This project is a one word text illustration of the themes in the movie. I chose the word bravery, because no matter what is going on in their lives, the genocides never give up. They never lose hope because if they do, they may lose their life. I think it is immensely brave for someone to not only survive during those times, but to also be a leader when the people need it most. This is portrayed in this movie very well, and I created some images to show the bravery they had to go along with my word.

Batesville Day

For this assignment, we were supposed to make a T-shirt design for the Batesville parade. I don't really like making T-shirts, and I don't think I'm very good at them. So instead, I made a piece of art to represent Batesville, kind of like what we did with our Charlottesville project. I made the background some flowers that are native to that area, and added pictures on top of it. I think the Batesville store is the best representation of the Batesville town, even though it is no longer open.

Photo Montage

For this project, most of the skill comes from the photography. I took a lot of different pictures of a tree outside our school, from all different angles. After taking the images, it didn't take long to put together in photoshop. After I matched all the photographs, I thought about putting a layer filter on all the images to give it a more edgy feel. After playing around with that for a bit, I decided keeping filters off gave the original photos a more simple look and kept the montage in full integrity.

Ride for Hope

This was a flyer I did for a fundraiser, not assigned to in my Digital Imaging class. I used a color schemer online to choose 3 colors that compliment each other. I used two of the colors as a background, and the other for my font. I got a new font from online at dafont.com and downloaded it. Everything else was put together on Photoshop.

Hands Collage

For this assignment, we took pictures of our own of people's hands to make a collage out of. I got one picture with a couple holding hands, and centered my piece on this image. I then took pictures of different types of hands to make it a bit unique (with rings, bracelets, scars, wrinkles, etc.). When cutting out the background of all the hand imaged, I learned a new technique: the layer mask. When using the layer mask, if you mess up you don't have to start all over with a new image, but can just put a new mask on. This new tool was very useful. I desaturated the hands around my main image and kept the couple in color so one's eye gets drawn to the center.

Fine Arts Festival

This project was to make a flyer to advertise for the 2012 Fine Arts Festival. We were given the artwork that some children from Stony Point Elementary School made. It came with the light blue background, so I took the same color and chose a different shade for a contrasting color. I downloaded a font from dafont.com to keep the little kid style in the theme of the poster.

Charlottesville 250 Years

For our midterm, we were assigned something that would represent our town of Charlottesville for it's 250th anniversary. To represent out town, I did a piece based off the University of Virginia. I thought this was appropriate because UVA is the base of our town and why it is so populated. In my project to show UVA, I decided to take three different angles. The first is the sports and the celebration of success. Second, I chose the academic side. It often gets overlooked, but UVA is regarded at one of the toughest public schools to get into. And lastly, I decided to show the student life and how fun it can be in college.

Filters

This is an old project we were assigned last year. I wanted to do it again, so I revisited it. I basically took one image and used the filters feature on Photoshop and altered that one image in multiple ways. In this particular one, I did a lot of dramatic changes involving other colors and such. In the other ones, I made very slight changes. These ones I made to not distract your eye, to focus it all on the dramatic images.

NoH8

For this project, we created fliers to be put up in the school for the NoH8 Campaign. We did this project for the Gay Straight Alliance Club in our school. I especially liked this project because it seemed like a real project that might be asked of us if we worked for a Graphic Designing company.