Shoe

Final Exam

Cartoon

          The strongest aspect of my work is the shading. Even with still being new to using photoshop and shading, I think the shading in my work is accurate with light coming from the right. One part of my work that could be improved on is the drawing. I think that if i took more time, I could have made a better drawing. But, with the time I had to finish this project, I didn't have more time.

          I think what was easy about this project was the drawing of the cartoon. It was pretty much just like doodling a cartoon. I thought this part was fun because it was just freehand drawing. The hardest part of this project was tracing the drawing in Illustrator. I never used Illustrator until I did the practice sheets. So, understanding how to use it at rust was difficult. But, I eventually got the hang of it.

          I demonstrated the objective in this activity by making the shading on the cartoon consistent throughout the whole thing. It appears like the light is coming from the right of the character. The shadows evenly blend and fade also. If I could do this activity again, I would probably just draw a different cartoon. One that is less boring. Maybe I could draw the character doing something in the picture.

Adobe Illustrator Worksheet: Curves

Adobe Illustrator Worksheet: Corners & Curves

Hybrid Animal

          The strongest aspect of my work was how i managed to fit the tiger's head smoothly on to the finch's body. I think that the colors are very close to being identical, so the tiger's head does not look like it was sloppily edited on to the bird. An aspect of my work that could be improved on is the pattern on the bird's wing. I wanted to make a tiger pattern on the wings. It worked, but not as smooth or realistic as I had imagined. I think that i could have used a different picture to get the tiger print from. I got the print form a tiger's head so I can understand why it may not fit the bird's wing. 

          The easy part about this activity was picking two animas to combine. This was easy, I think, because there are endless combinations of which animals to combine. So, even if you randomly picked two animals, there could be a way to combine them. So, I thought that since finches are yellow and tigers wouldn't look very odd being yellow, I chose a tiger and finch. I think what was difficult about this activity was combining the animals to look like they actually belong together. Or else, it would look unrealistic and not well done. So, getting the colors correct and blending certain parts to fit the bird were difficult. 

          I demonstrated the objective in this activity by smoothly blending the tiger's head on to the finch. I think I did a good job in making the tiger head appear realistic on the finch's head. I combined the two animals also by putting a tiger print on the finch's wing which added another element of combination. If i could do this activity again, I would choose different animals in which I could incorporate more elements of each animal into one animal. Also, I think that if I used different animals, it would be a fun experience.

Digital Painting

          I think the strongest aspect of my work is the quality of the figure of the painting. It looks very similar to the reference picture I used, in terms of shape. The shape and detail stands out the most in my opinion. Easily, the aspect I could have improved on was the shading. The shading was the most difficult part I think. I have never used the blending tool before, and it is much harder to smoothly blend colors than I thought it would be.

          The easiest part of this activity was drawing the actual picture. It was basically tracing, so it wasn't very difficult. Drawing the picture was much easier than the process of blending and coloring. The difficult part of this activity, even more difficult and time consuming than the blending, was cleaning up and making the painting look complete. Before the cleaning up process, the painting just looked sloppy and unfinished.

          I demonstrated the objective in this activity by clearly using the blending tool and trying to execute clean, and smooth blending of colors. Although it didn't work out the best everywhere, smooth blending is easily shown in the face and legs. If i could do this activity again, I would most likely choose a different picture. This picture was a cartoon, so clean and smooth blending isn't usually necessary. However, if I used an animal, or something that didn't look like it came from a comic book, the blending of colors would look better.