Illustrator Exercise One

Here is my tracing for illustrator - I did the escalator. Illustrator is kind of fun, but I still like photoshop better.



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Project One

Enclosed is my project one. I had a lot of ideas for this project but trying them all out really showed no matter how good some things seem in theory they may fail hard in practice. I think my finished product is pretty well put together. The glasses balance well with two in the top left background and two in the bottom right foreground. The shadows of the bow and the couple are consistent, and make a good balance for the watermark-date from the box. I made the date less intense just as I made the grass, bow, and shine of the stars more intense. The stars now work as a path leading the eye from the kiss up to the bright burst of stars (uchi no ha~na~~bi, right?) and hen around the equally bright and cheery bow, which overlaps into the green green garden area - the color of spring and love.

Overall I think I did a pretty good job in conveying the wedding-type feeling of everything coming together into a bright and happy whole. Weddings are a time for double-happiness, after all.








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Digital Art txt - Introduction

I'm not really sure what I just read. They were talking about computers for a while, then suddenly I was reading about poetry, and directly following that were about 15 pages of a list of art peices. I feel like I'm in Conceptual again (except that that was about 4x longer)! But I have to take notes on the reading, so I will.



Digital art built up slowly from about 1945 on until it hit its stride in the 90's and skyrocketed up to where we are now. The idea of computer system and the Internet really started then, as the "Memex" - Vannevar Bush. This area of time is also when cyberkinetics began.

Moving on, the 60s were a time of groundwork. They conceptualized the internet as a communication network (ARPANET). In 68 Douglas Engelbert brought thought up bitmapping - connecting the electrons from a processor and a screen - basically mouse manipulation.

Apple finally managed the desktop in 83.

the 1960s had some of the first computer-generated artwork (Gaussian Quadratic, Michael A. Noll). Experiments in Art and Technology was formed in 66.

The 70s and 80s were mostly experimental time.

The 90s of course were when it really hit. There were exhibitions for Digital art alone. It's dynamic because it also can have a time aspect, and will require audience participation more than more traditional art. It's also more dependent of the museum because the museum actually has to put work into displaying digital art - they can't just post them on the walls. There's also the question if how to display internet art. I didn't really understand this part, but apparently there is some debate because on one hand internet art is meant for the internet and on the other they want to limit some pieces to not be accessible to people in their homes - only at certain locations. I got really confused here because (and they were even talking about how widespread internet access is in this day and age) how can you put those specific restrictions on the internet? Some certain locations can block things from their personal network, and some online files might require passwords but I don't know how they could possibly limit access of something on the internet to one area etc.

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Composite Image

This is my composite image from two weeks ago. I actually used one of my "interior" pictures as a background. This gave me some trouble because of quality issues depending on where I imported them from and stuff, oddly. I also had a hard time with the blending and I ended up using the eraser tool probably way more than I should have to keep the image intact. I think I know what I'm doing better now that we've learned more about blending photos in class, though, so hopefully the actual project will turn out better than this practice did. I did this silly thumbelina type thing because I thought the idea of dancing in front of flowers and stuff was cool. It's subtle, but there are actually a lot of elements from the wedding in the background of my interior picture - the maid of honor's bouquet, one of the bridesmaids, the gifts to the guests (tea, and the boxes imprinted with the date of the wedding), and the fancy silverware and such with evidence of the food smeared on it - that signifies the guests enjoying the event. The colors are all bright and almost surreally joyful, too, even though I didn't do any color enhancement. It reflects the tone of the whole thing pretty nicely, I think. That's what I'm trying for most in this project is conveying the sort of happy and lighthearted feeling that comes with something like this. What good is art if it can't evoke emotion in the viewer, right? ^_~ Ah, incidentally, I would like to make a note here that the wedding really did fall the weekend between the first and second classes and I did actually bring my camera with the intention of taking advantage of this opportune time for the human interaction shots for this class (my mom rolled her eyes at me when I mentioned that I probably wouldn't care about forgetting a camera if it wasn't an assignment). Just thought I'd mention that what with all the emphasis on not using photos not taken for this project. Read more!

Project 1 - 3 photos

For now, these are the pictures I've chosen to use with the Photo Alteration project.





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Proj 1 Photos Prelims

These are the photos I've tentatively chosen as possible choices for Project#1. Because I don't really know what the project is or what "interior" etc meant I chose a fairly sizable batch of my favorites from the reel and set them aside here until I understand this project better and can further narrow it down.

Human interaction:

Exterior:

Interior:

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