Tattoo Project

     The strongest aspect of my work is the tattoo itself. I think the design is cool looking. It is tribal looking and i thought it was drawn very well. I think I could have improved on some things however. I thought the drawing was cool, but the execution of making it look like a real tattoo was not done very well. I could have improved on blending the tattoo to the skin and contour of the body.

     I think the easy part about this activity was drawing the tattoo because it could be anything we wanted. There was no criteria to meet, for the tattoo itself, so it was simple to make something we liked. the difficult part about this activity was blending the tattoo to the body. It is not easy trying to make a drawing look like a real tattoo on a person.

     I demonstrated the objective by trying to warp the tattoo to the arm and blend it to the parts of the body where it was necessary to make darker lighter, or blurred. If I could do this activity again, I would change the placement of the tattoo. I think that the placement of this shaped tattoo just doesn't look right. Also, I would probably spend more time on the dodging, burning, and blurring tools to make the tattoo look more realistic.

Portrait Project

The strongest aspect of my work, I think, was the way that applied certain textures to different images in the project. It make it so the images are less flat and boring. I could probably improve on the placement and layering of my images. To me, the placement doesn't look very good. The layering looks more like a collage than i would have liked it.

The easy part about this activity was that I could use things that I like instead of having to do something I don't enjoy. I could think of anything I like and out it into my project. The difficult part of this project was that we had to layer images and make them look good. It was tough layering certain images and putting them in the right place to make them look good.

I demonstrated the objective in this activity by using filters on the images, using blend modes on some and layering the images. Using all of these elements combined helped bring multiple images together to create a single work of art. If I could to this project over again, I would change the placement of the images and the way I layered them. I might also change the images I used to express myself.