Design Your Own Art Project
Design Your Own Project Artist Statement
John White
In Digital Arts class we were assigned to come up with an idea for an art project and create it. For my Design Your Own Art Project, I chose to do photography of sports. I picked this topic so I could show what I love to do through photography. I also decided to do a project like this because I read sports magazines, such as Climbing, and am inspired by the photos in these magazines and want to take photos like these. Some of the characteristics of the photos I admired were the angles and the lighting. For example, I noticed that a lot of photos were taken in late afternoon or evening light. I tried to imitate this by also taking my climbing photographs later in the day. A lot of the time good photographs use unique angles. I attempted this in my photograph taken on the edge of a cliff showing the tip of my shoe. Sports photography is hard to capture because most of the time the people are in motion. Many of my photographs include a lot of movement, such as the biking photograph. I also found it challenging to photograph in people in motion well. As a result, I’ve learned a lot from this project on sports photography.
John White
In Digital Arts class we were assigned to come up with an idea for an art project and create it. For my Design Your Own Art Project, I chose to do photography of sports. I picked this topic so I could show what I love to do through photography. I also decided to do a project like this because I read sports magazines, such as Climbing, and am inspired by the photos in these magazines and want to take photos like these. Some of the characteristics of the photos I admired were the angles and the lighting. For example, I noticed that a lot of photos were taken in late afternoon or evening light. I tried to imitate this by also taking my climbing photographs later in the day. A lot of the time good photographs use unique angles. I attempted this in my photograph taken on the edge of a cliff showing the tip of my shoe. Sports photography is hard to capture because most of the time the people are in motion. Many of my photographs include a lot of movement, such as the biking photograph. I also found it challenging to photograph in people in motion well. As a result, I’ve learned a lot from this project on sports photography.
Environmental Documentary Project
In this project our goal was to create an environmental documentary on an issue that could impact the environment. Our project was arguing against a proposed village that might be built at wolf creek ski area. One of our main objectives of the project was to complete three interviews with people who know a lot about our topic. At the end our documentary's were shown at the theater.
Project reflection Questions:
1. I feel that artist produce plans before they create there artwork so the can come out with a well complete product. For example if someone started on an art project and never created a plan for it, they might mess up their project or not complete it as well.
2. Art is something that can communicate a persons feelings or emotions to someone else. For example, if the artwork is something sad or depressing, it describes what the artists feelings were while creating the piece of art.
In this project our goal was to create an environmental documentary on an issue that could impact the environment. Our project was arguing against a proposed village that might be built at wolf creek ski area. One of our main objectives of the project was to complete three interviews with people who know a lot about our topic. At the end our documentary's were shown at the theater.
Project reflection Questions:
1. I feel that artist produce plans before they create there artwork so the can come out with a well complete product. For example if someone started on an art project and never created a plan for it, they might mess up their project or not complete it as well.
2. Art is something that can communicate a persons feelings or emotions to someone else. For example, if the artwork is something sad or depressing, it describes what the artists feelings were while creating the piece of art.
Before
Teacher Creature Project
Proof sheet
Reflections:
- Basic project description (what you did, steps you took)
- Photoshop is a online program where you can change images to have different looks or change alter a location to make it look different. I decided to make a photograph of Brian and make him look like someone in the 1980’s. I mostly used the pen tool to change the color of the background and the brightness or darkness of the shirt. I got internet photos for the sunglasses. I used a lot of saturation and hue.
- Photoshop is a online program where you can change images to have different looks or change alter a location to make it look different. I decided to make a photograph of Brian and make him look like someone in the 1980’s. I mostly used the pen tool to change the color of the background and the brightness or darkness of the shirt. I got internet photos for the sunglasses. I used a lot of saturation and hue.
- Hardest part of the project and how you persevered through it
- At the beginning of the project I had trouble getting a photo of Brian into photoshop because I did it wrong the first time, which ended up saving it in the wrong folder, causing me to have difficulties changing it to the right one. Getting all the details right was another part that was challenging. Also, having to redo work because of messing up a detail was challenging.
SELF PORTRAIT:
Why is it important to understand the intentions behind an artwork? A self-portrait in particular?
It is important to understand the intentions behind self portraits and artwork because it tells you the personality or interests of the artist.
Logo Design Project
Logo project reflection
During this project I learned a lot about about adobe illustrator. before I only used Photoshop and did not want to use illustrator, but now I realize that illustrator also has useful tools and is as useful as Photoshop. Now I have the skills to use Photoshop and illustrator which is a useful skill to have. This project will be useful in the future if I ever want to design logos and use them for business. My connection to this project was designing the logo itself. The reason this was my biggest connection is because I love coming up with ideas and using them in projects. This project was once again, a great new learning experience and useful for the future.