Poster Reflection

             I believe my stance is clear because it shows how police and civilians fight against each other. There are different fonts throughout my final project. This final is extremely different to my first draft because on illustrator I use different shapes to create different angles for the poster while my draft did not go together. My poster idea changed drastically because on my final, I did not really have a stance. It is just to stop fighting among the people while my drawn draft was more of a police brutality. I like the new visual outcome because there are more colors to the poster.
             I changed the boxer person to an angry woman cartoon character. It was difficult for me to find pictures of angry cartoon people, so I settled for only one woman. I added the word "Stop" in different fonts on the background of my poster. This added a good contrast in the photo between different words and I like how some words are cut off because of how my photo is layered. Because I added the background, I started to get a bit more creative since it looked better. There is zero empty space in my final draft compared to my first draft.
             My project is strongest in the Design category because there are different ways I filled in space in my poster project. I am least confident in the concept section because I changed it constantly because the "stop fighting" concept goes better with the clash within the community rather than the police brutality.
             The most challenging aspect of this project is finding the right photos to add to the poster. I could not find any good photos and it was difficult to create, so I had to settle with bad ones. Like the cartoon people and police I had to settle for them because I struggled to find any other good one.
             This project is challenging technically because it is difficult to create art works on illustrator since I just started working on it. Like there are too many tools and it is difficult to implement everything into my poster project.

1. Do you believe your stance clear within your poster? Defend your answer- image, fonts, color, composition, etcFrom your initial thumbnail sketches to your hand drawn draft- Do you feel you were successful in re-creating your poster idea digitally? If not, do you like the new visual outcome?
2. What were the changes you made from your first version to the last version of the poster? Explain why you made those changes?
3. Looking over your rubric, which category do you think your project is strongest? Explain why. Which category do you feel the least confident? Explain why.
4. What was the most challenging aspect of the project, conceptually?
5. What was most challenging about the project, technically?

2-3 things I want to learn more about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQUFj9kcMf8

This video takes place in china and its about a policeman hitting an old man with their weapon, but then the woman started to act out to get him to stop hitting the old man. After the woman touches the police, he just strikes her twice in the face and got knocked out. This is horrible and police brutality is stupid. Police should be more educated and learn how to cope with these people that act up, it should be in their training instead of acting recklessly like a civilian. Police have higher authority for a reason and if they cannot step up to this, they should step down from their job. This go for all police around the world, everyone can improve.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/want-record-cops-know-your-rights

Although it is rightful to record the incident the police is creating. It is wrong for police to tell you to stop recording. And the civilians might be threatened to destroy the evidence they recorded because they are afraid of the police. The police are threatening to people rather than helping them. In certain videos I watch in social media, the back ups in an incident usually tells the recorder to leave the premise because they are interfering with their work. But while the cop is blocking the evidence, the other cops can easily land a punch in without anyone noticing. So, I think it will be wise if the government established this concern on how the cops cannot actually stand in front of your camera to try to get you from recording.

Self Symbol Gif

My concept for this gif is when I get angry, I become ruthless. But my anger lead to me getting embarrassed. This shows me being in my angry stage and hitting the boxing bag, but then I fail and get knocked out by the boxing bag instead. I arrived to this idea because I would usually want to relieve my anger and my stress on something solid, but then I am not capable of stopping the bag. My image enhances my concept because it shows a clear picture on what happens when I get mad. So, I should try and keep my cool or else I would hurt myself more than anyone else. My action leads to a worser reaction from someone or something else.

The original idea show myself getting up to show that I do not give up from defeat. But then I realized, if I get knocked out, I can't regain consciousness in a few seconds. So that is why I cropped that part out of my project. So, I made the project more realistic than anything else.

Random back and forth gif

Tried to create a gif that flowed really well

Portrait Transformation Reflection

PROJECT BYRD

I created this concept by using most of the things around me and then played around with a few photoshop tool to help me create this piece.

I am not happy with this result because this isn't the concept I really found interesting. But then i couldn't come up with any new ideas, so I had to stick with this. I dislike how the pen is not between its beak, but its under it. Thats a big flaw in my work.

This is my background

This is the pen I used.

That is the bird.

And then behold, my failurepiece:

I will show you all how to use the clone stamp tool. First you click the clone stamp tool, which looks like a stamp on the left side of photoshop. Then go on the right layer and click an area which you want to clone. Next you option-click the area so the program knows where you want to clone. Finally, you go to the area and use your cursor to go over the area in which you wanna fill. 

In this project I cloned the birds eyes and head. If its not working, you should check the layer you're on because that was my problem. I cloned the face and then moved my cursor a little above the feet. So it looks like a baby bird is in a mother bird's chest like a joey to a kangaroo

ML4 Statue of Ze Yuan

Letter Project Reflection

The letter project's process wasn't really that helpful to me because the ideas I brainstormed. I didnt really use in my final draft of my letter project. When the letter project was first introduced and when I had an assigned letter, I just thought of anything related to the letter M or a word that started with an M. 

Although Donald Trump doesn't have to do with anything related to the letter M, I thought of a way to make it fit. Because he is such a big controversial person right now in politics, I thought of how he wanted to deport many immigrants back to their country including Mexicans. At first I was thinking of creating a Great Wall of Trump with M shaped blocks to block off Mexico, but then I did not know how to start that. So I scratched that idea off my list. 

Then our next step in this class was to create 20 thumbnail sketches. Here are my thumbnails:

My favorite thumbnail sketches off the bat was the email icon but then I checked the gmail icon and it was too similar to do. Another favorite was the hairline of a person with a M shape to it. Another really easy alternative to this project was a duo mountain next to each other creating an M shape. The feedback I got didn't help me because I couldn't do the mail icon, so the feedback I got wasn't helpful

My two drafts after the thumbnail sketches were the hairline and the mountain.

So, I did these two drafts. I really liked my face draft, with the hairline and unibrow with the M shape. Ms. Lee said the M shape has to be more promiment, so there was no way for me to make this drawing. The mountain shaped M was difficult to draw and it looked really plain if it was only the mountains on the page. But then I thought of sphaghetti o's and thought of sphaghetti m's with a M shape bowl.

Here is my final product: 

There is the spoon indicating that it is a M shaped bowl with little m sphaghetti on the inside.

In my concept, I tried to make the outer rim lighter than the inside of the bowl because the inside of the bowl is usually darker than the outside. Also, the inside of the bowls edges were sharper because it is suppose to be a really sharp cut instead of a really dull one. I also blended two colors together for the soup color.

This picture showed the sharp edge of the bowl and the different colors used for the soup color. A soup shouldn't be a single color especially from a can of soup. I created different sizes sphaghettis because the all of the sphaghettis are not similar.

The most challenging aspect of this project for me was to decide on what to do because I never can decide on what to do, and if I did know what to do, I will always find a way to get rid of it. The soup was really hard to create out of color pencils and I think I did a horrible job creating the color of the soup. 

I am not satisfied with my project because my drawing isn't as realistic as I wanted it to be. If I look at it, without knowing what this project is about, I would not know this is a bowl of soup Everything isn't the way I wanted it to be.  It is annoying because I do not know how to create something from my brain to the paper.

If I can change my design, I would change everything because it doesn't look like a real bowl, the sphaghettis are really unrealistic and the soup looks discolored. Everything looks wrong to me, so if I had to change something, I would change everything.