Final Portfolio

Design for a Cause

 

I chose to do my Design for a Cause poster on Breast Cancer Awareness. My Aunt had breast cancer and was able to beat it! She is an amazing women, and I look up to her so much. I think that more people need to support the cause. For this poster I decided to use different values of pinks. I also made sure that I used the main logo of breast cancer awareness, the pink ribbon. 

Hue Test

I thought this test was so cool! I took it once, and scored an 8, and then when I did the screen shot I exited out, little to my knowledge I forgot to hit alt, AHH! So, I retook the test and scored a 4! Pretty awesome!

Color Assignment

This is my color wheel assignment. I thought the arrows would be neat to use in the wheel aspect of this assignment. I chose to use white to purple in the hue to white part of the project. In my two hue to hue pieces I chose Blue to Red, and Red to Green. I think this came out very well.

Color

These are my three images I chose for complimentary, analogous, and the 2 different hues...

Value

This was such a fun, but very annoying and difficult, assignment. I first drew the outline of my head and hair and then I really studied the picture of myself and found all the different values in the picture. I wish that I would have used better textures, but I think it came out well for my first time ever doing an assignment like this one. The one thing I would probably redo is my hair, but I am always changing my hair anyways, so whats new?! :)

Space and Motion

I chose this photo because I thought it was really neat. I think that it definitely uses exaggerated size. The brightness of the bottle on the left is where your eye first lands, and then it follows horizontally across the bottle and then to the man jogging below the drop of water.

I saw this photo on facebook about a month ago and after
reading the chapter and the assignment it came to mind. The fact that the
person on the snowboard is snapped in intervals helps to apply the
illusionistic motion which uses figure repeated.

Pattern and Textures

I enjoyed this assignment, it was fun going around my house trying to think of fun, different textures I had. From left to right, I used corks from wine bottles, a scarf, sugar, my make up brushes, cotton balls, pepper, beads from a key chain, aluminum foil, the fur trim of a santa hat, money, paper towel, a terry cloth, dead leaves, my leather belt, and a cord.







This was also fun, setting the images from white to black, it was a bit tricky but I think I did well!

Shape and Volume

For this assignment I used a dining room chair and my floor lamp I have in my living room. I thought the back part of the chair would look interesting, as well as the lamp shaft, in this assignment.

Midterm Update

These are updates of the Rhythm, Scale and Proportion, and Balance assignments. I didn't clearly understand them at first, but I think I did it correctly this time.

Line

Rhythm: Touch

The sense I chose was Touch.

The five adjectives I chose were Bumpy, Spiky, Smooth, Sharp, and Hot.

Balance

With this project, I used digital media to construct my balance. I used basic silverware one would find in the kitchen. In my first piece, I made it very uniform in straight ups and downs, with two slight diagnols.

In this second part, I used the basic cut outs, and still included the up and down, but also the diagnols more. I believe that both images are well balanced.

Scale and Proportion

This collage is named "Beauty is held in the Eye of the Beholder." I named it because beauty truley is seen differently by everyone. I used different colors for the eyes, and also the skin tones are different as well.

Contrast

The bright red flower is the focal point of this image I took. The fact that the background of the flower is blurred, the red, which is a loud color anyways, grabs ones attention immediately. I took this photo last spring.

Isolation

The railroad track becomes the focal point in this image.

The nut that the person his holding isolates the track
from the rest of the picture. I found this image by searching
Emphasis by Isolation.

Placement
The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo is a famous painting that shows emphasis by placement. The two men are on opposite sides of the image, but their arms reach towards the center with their fingers almost touching at almost the center of the painting. I found this online by searching Michelangelo.



One Element

This is a good example of One Element, as well as advertising. The women in the image appears to be wearing nothing but the jewelery around her wrists, which immediately gives off the message of this being an add for jewelery. The color of the jewelery also grabs the attention of the viewer. I found this by searching magazine ads.



Absence of Focal Point
This painting does not have a focal point. This artist emphasized on the entire surface and it looks like there was an even distribution of the colors used in this image. I found this by searching no focal point.

Unity

I thought that this was a good example of unity with the two leopard cubs. Their spots show repetition, as well as their expressions. I also think that the whiskers give the image continuation.

This is a screen shot of my favorite clothing website, Tilly's. The grid they use is three vertical columns, with a row of smaller icons in the middle column to access different views of the product one is observing. I think this website is visually appealing, and the all white background is very basic and does not take away from the products they are selling.