layout and design project

for this project i used a pen as my object. I began by scanning in the pen and doing bit map tracing. after the bit map tracing i changed many of the colors in the pen and made it almost rainbow with a huge assortment of colors. The idea then occurred to me to make the pen write in color instead of the black ink that it actually writes in. With that idea, i took the liberty of changing the name of the pen to color lady instead of cristal lady. I made the catch phrase "whats your color?". I also used the texture of the pen to fill in the word BIC. I took the advertising aspect of the assignment very literally and put the BIC logo on the bottom of the page and said the name of the pen "BIC color lady" once again and put another catch phrase-"the pen that writes in as many colors as you desire. I also put in a fading gray to black background which faded in the corners. If i could go back i would take away what i put at the bottom and space out the items on the page more. I liked many of the other projects a lot and wish that I could have seen other examples before starting my work.

portrait project

for this project i used squares and the color pink. I used a picture of myself. I liked this project a lot and for the most part got a hang of it quickly. The only part i had issues with was my hair because one piece went across my face and it was hard to disrupt the pattern in order to get that piece to start. one side of my hair ended up looking like an unorganized bundle of squares. Overall, I think i got the flow of my hair pretty well. For the second part of the project originally i was going to do the same picture and just use color but instead i decided to take the portion of the first picture with the sunglasses and use that. Originally i was going to put 4 panels of the sunglasses and make an "M" across them, but when i did this it looked sloppy. Instead, I took 6 panels of the sunglasses (because 6 is my lucky number) and changed the color of each of them. I was going to make every sunglasses a different color scheme but then when i went to go change the orange pair of glasses, the blue outline looked good with it so i ended up doing a row of blue frames with different lenses, the center with different color frames and patterned lenses, and adding a new row again with blue frames and different color lenses which reflected the lense  colors in the first row in a darker hue. I think that this came out cool. When i went to mount the first image the spray glue came out really bad which im upset about.

Project 2- image gallery

For this project i took my photo (of just my eyes) and started out by cropping the image so that all you could see was one eye. Then I changed the contrast of the photo since mine came out very dark. I then changed the color of my eye and made it more green. i used the marquee tool and selected the iris of my eye and made it more green then selected the pupil and made it black and then selected the white area and made it more white. I put a mosaic filter over the image and then batched it. Since i cropped the photo many of my pictures cropped out the people. The eye was in every photo. It didnt work for all of the photos, but i wanted to use the batch process. Since it didnt work for all of the photos, i made a collage of the photos which i think came out good. During crit i liked all of the image gallery's. most of them made me wish that i left more of the peoples faces in them and cropped differently and worked on each individual photo more. i thought initially that we had to do a batch but not many people did.