Digital Imagining

ARTIST REFLECTION –CARTOON I think the strongest part of my visual was the use of color. I think the structure of the cartoon could have been better, I believe I should have played more with the pen tool and could’ve been more flexible with the tools in Photoshop. I used the pen tool to outline the cartoon, and Photoshop to add color and minor details. The easiest part about this project was hand drawing it, I had more versatility with what I wanted to see. The hardest part was outlining the image with the pen tool because I’m not fully comfortable with it. I completed the objectives by creating the cartoon by myself and no taking it offline, and outlining what I could with the pen tool. If I could do it over I would get more comfortable with the pen tool and add more detail to the cartoon. I would rate my project a four because I could have done better. 

         Artist Reflection (Polaroid's)  The strongest visual area of my finished art piece is the way I positioned my Polaroid’s. I positioned them in a way where they looked purposely scattered. I think this was my strongest part because I had more leeway to recreate an image, manipulate what was there and portray what I wanted.  I think I could have been more creative, I should have done more with the image. It can be improved because the next time around, I plan to step out of my comfort zone, and explore the horizons of my art piece. I could have also added more color to the art work. I utilized the selection tool, free transform tool, saturation tool, the magic wand tool, and the type tool. I used the selection tool to select the images and Polaroid templates. The free transform tool was used to rotate and scale the Polaroid’s. The saturation tool was used to change the colors of my original image and enrich the dull colors. I used th...