Category: Cassells

My Photoshop Project

This is an image of Tilda and I riding through the jungle. In order to present the notion that we were in the rainforest, I did some research and incorporated some animals that you might find in the jungle. I believe my photo represents change in the sense that I had photoshopped us out of our real background and replaced that background with something else, but yet we were all still still riding through the jungle, in hopes of making a difference. This is relevant today, when a lot of change is taking place, and teaches the lesson that you cannot just sit back and watch change disrupt our world – you must tackle it by using your voice. I have used many different elements in this project. I have used emphasis in the placement of our bike, drawing attention to it. I used balance when figuring out the scale of my project, and how everything is mostly to scale, creating a sense of balance. I used contrast when choosing the lighting of each element and layer, contrasting each element to create emphasis on different aspects of the project. For example, the shadowing I put into the picture created contrast. I used harmony in the placement of each animal and plant, trying to put each of them equidistant from the bicycle in order to show harmony between the animals, but mostly draw attention to the bike. Rhythm occurred in my picture when drawing attention to the edges of my picture first with the animals. Overall, I have really enjoyed this project and am looking forward to doing more digital art in the future!

Art Value Chart

In art, we just learned about the value chart. The value chart is where you make different pencil marks, and then use different shade pencils. You show the different shades, and you also show the different values. One value is hatching. Hatching is where you make a bunch of lines facing the same direction. It helps create a good texture. Then, there’s cross hatching. It’s basically the same as hatching, but instead you are doing the hatching in two different directions. Then, there is stipple. Stipple is a bunch of dots (we drew them with sharpie) and you draw a bunch of them, until you’ve filled in the page. The dots can be however far apart. Last, there’s random marks.  Random marks is one mark that you make on the page continuously, in order to fill in the page. All of these create a good texture in the drawing. Here’s mine: