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Political cartoon Project |
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For this project we watched a documentary called blackfish (trailer is above and full movie is on youtube) and had to make a political cartoon in response to the film. My cartoon shows a whale in a steamy hot, cracked, old tub with a thermometer in his mouth because he is sick. In the corner of the picture there is a doctor wondering why the whale fever won't go down but the obvious reason is because he is in a hot bath. This is showing how seaworld try to say that they did not know (or maybe they really didn't) that because they put the whales in tanks that that may change their mood and make them angry. The crack in the tub symbolizes how the orcas at seaworld do not have enough room to be free. While doing this project we learned about political cartoons and how they can get a message across in a artistic way. One way they do this is by being funny, causing the viewer to want to read it or think about it more. This is not always effective though because the artist may view the piece very differently than they viewer does. Thats creating art differs so much from viewing art, especially with political cartoons. The artist might know what they are trying to say but if the viewer sees it differently or does not get it at all then there was no point to making it because the whole idea of a political cartoon is to get your ideas and believes across in a artistic way.
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prehistoric art drawing Project |
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Project Reflection
For this project I took lots of steps. I had to use multiple photoshop techniques that were brand new to me. I learned how to do a lot of masking things through multiple youtube videos. This helped me with Hannah's eyes. then i had to change the hue of hannah's face and all of the other things that i put on her face to look more green and rotten so that it would match her body. The hardest part of this project was making her blind eye look like it was actually hers. I had to feather the edge around the eye then make the skin around it darker (like a black eye) so that it would be able to blend better and look more realistic. My favorite part of this project was all the freedom we had. We could do anything we wanted with our teacher and this was good because it helped me learn a lot of new photoshops techniques that my friends didn't know. Also they knew thing that I didn't. This way we can teach each other new thing and be better artists. What i learned about myself as a digital artist is that I love to learn everything there is to know and the easiest way to do it. There are so many keyboard shortcuts and during this project I learned some of them. There are still so many that I need to learn so that I can make my projects faster and much easier.
Practice prodjects
BEFORE AFTER
AFTER BEFORE
I used the quick selection tool to select my tooth of choice, then I used the warp tool to drag it so it looked sharp and long. Then i used the eraser tool to clean it up and make it look like a vampire or werwolf tooth.
BEFORE AFTER
For the name project I went out in the parking lot and took picture of objects then resized and flipped them in photoshop so they would look like letters I also used the gradient tool to make the cool background.