Artistic intrests
I enjoy a lot of physical art, such as drawing, painting, and mixed media art. I am specifically interested in portraiture as well as figure drawing
A hobby an art form of mine is also cooking and baking. While I am not formally trained in either of these skills, it is something that I enjoy exploring creating for family and friends.
I have an interest in creating digital art, although I am only surface level familiar with it. I am learning procreate and of course other digital editing apps for my art 245 class.
Art 245 Projects
Below are projects for Digital Art
I saw an image on the internet a while ago of this painting, "Ophelia" by John Everett Millais, edited into a bowl of pho. So while it is not my original idea I made it my own by doing miso soup instead. I found both of these images on wikimedia.org by doing a filter search for large creative commons images. The miso soup is 791 KB and the painting is 22.41 MB. I feel that this works more as an anarchism more than a visual pun since it is very obvious that she does not belong in a bowl of soup. I tried my best to kind of match the shape and flow of the soup and colors with how I edited her in. I am still getting familiar with procreate which is what I used, so it was interesting to play around with. I think the most difficult thing that did not necessarily happen with this project but could for future assignments is finding images that work as well as size and licensing. My only plan was to cut the image and place it in the soup, but the edges were really harsh and I wanted to make it look a little smoother, so I lowered the opacity of the eraser and went in on the edges and just the overall image to make it appear as if she is actually in the broth. Figuring out tools and shortcuts in procreate can be a little annoying but its pretty easy to figure out from the internet.
For this assignment, I wanted to create propaganda that was created by raccoons, urging people to view them as friendly creatures rather than pesterous ones. I also created a problem that doesn’t really exist, which is “trash suppression.” I used a couple images to trace, the trashcan and the raccoon, and then I spent some time adding details to these images to make them more visually pleasing, as I wanted this to be the visual centerpiece of my poster. It was fun to be able to play around with some of the brushes I had never used before. I then thought of imagery that was used in a lot of propaganda posters, so I added the black and white rays in the background to make my image stand out more, and added the transparent raccoon head at the bottom to kind of further push the idea that this message was being sent out by raccoons.
For Textual choices, I used the captions, “Pals not pests,” to take away from the idea that raccoons are sinister, “Stop trash suppression” to create a kind of imaginary problem that the raccoons want to fight against, and “if you’re hungry, they’re hungry” to kind of personalize it to the audience and almost make it more direct as if everyone is guilty of being apart of this imaginary problem. Some techniques I used that went into my project were cardstacking, transfer, and glittering generalities.
Images: Rays from Vecteezy, Raccoon head from pinterest
The prompt I chose for this assignment is irony. I believe my image represents this prompt because it is a commentary on the hypocrisy of Donald Trump, a person who criticizes and makes extreme accusations towards his opposition yet refuses the public to have access to something that should be accessible information as it incriminates him. I wanted my image to have humor, as it shows us that Trump would go the extra mile to point the finger at others rather than do what he told his voters that he would do if he won the election. I wanted to have his face be expressive to show that he truly is making the harder decision. I added shadows to his figure to add more depth to the image, and I tried my best to make the sign look like it made sense with the placement. I think the most annoying thing about this project is cutting out the images, as I haven’t quite figured out the trick to do it instantly on procreate.
Sources: Desert and stockcake, crawling image: deviantart, trump face: nara.getarchive
For my spoof ad I chose to use the pet food brand “Taste of the wild.” After doing some research, I found that they had a lawsuit in 2019 for having extremely high levels of lead in their pet food among other chemicals such as arsenic. Initially I believe that brand argued that the standards for certain chemicals were related to human consumption, not pet consumption, yet they were still extremely high. I found it ironic that a brand that markets itself as a natural and “wild” brand also had so many chemicals in their food. The way I portrayed this was by putting the food as well as two dogs with a tree behind it, but the shadow of the tree is dead signifying what we don’t see on the outside. I found that figuring out how to recolor the dead tree to make it look like a shadow was the most difficult part, especially since this was the first time I used photoshop. I also at first had the shadow of the tree directly under it like a water reflection, but this made it look like the roots rather than a shadow. I so added the slogan “Now with 20% less lead” to point out that they should not have any chemicals on it.
Sources: food image from chewy.com, both dog images from harmony animal hospital, dead tree from pngtree, alive tree from Wikimedia.
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