Collages

This week we had to scan pictures and objects and use them to create collages. We used different blending modes to makes interesting in our collages. I really liked doing this assignment. I like the way he collages look when they're done. The one on the left is a collage of an ink drawing I did for 2D, pictures of flowers and a hand, and a picture of Forrest Kline from Hellogoodbye that I took at one of his shows. The other is a picture of me with flowers and leaves.

Spoof Ads

The homework for this week was to take a picture and change the meaning of it. I took a picture of Miley Cyrus from the cover of Vanity Fair and took out her face and put Sarah Palin's face in it. I added different article titles to make it look like a cover. We also had to create a spoof ad so I took a snickers ad and put hungry african children in it.

To retouch, or not to retouch?

After reading the article What Wrong With This Picture? by Kate Betts, I've gained a better insight on the whole retouching business of the fashion world. It's important for magazine editors to sell their product, so having good looking people on the cover will most likely make money. However, I do think that there are certain lines that should not be crossed. For example: taking a person's head and putting it on a slimmer person's body is wrong. It gives the viewer a false belief of how that person really looks. Overall, I think that the practice is perfectly fine as long as the photographers or retouchers don't over do it. 

The next article, Pixel Perfect by Lauren Collins, informed me on the processes that retouchers use in their work. She described more as an art form instead of a controversy. It led me to believe that retouching really isn't all that bad as long as it's done in moderation.

Logo

This week we had to design a logo for a company or our name. I used my initials to create a simple logo. 

Self portrait

For the homework this week, we had to scan our faces and create a self portrait using the pen tool. The picture on the left is the scanned picture, and the picture on the right is the one that I created.

Homework

This is the homework we had to do for this week. One is a self portrait using the type tool, and the other is a still life that I'm not proud of.

Pictograms

These are some of the Pictograms that I did for homework for my computer class. The one on the left is a pictogram of a fashion designer, in the center is Kermit the frog, and the last one is a warning label for myself.