Last Blog Ever #5

What is the most significant accomplishment in looking at your Midterm or Final? You can talk about technique in Photoshop, investigating your Big Idea, creating a meaningful artwork, etc.

         My most significant accomplishment in regards to my Midterm and Final, has been the development of my Big Idea. I was able to analyze many parts of my life and personality through my artwork.

         In my midterm, I was able to break down my future dreams in my life. I have never truly broken down my future plans, and this artwork allowed me to develop a plan, and stylize my message. Using the Apple logo allowed me to break down my plans into layers, I was able to explore my big idea stylistically.

         In my final, I explored the opposite side of my personality, the fun side. I was able to successfully use layers to break down my big idea. I feel that going in opposite directions of my big idea from my midterm to my final, allowed for excellent exploration of myself through artwork. This was a success, and I feel it was therapeutic.

 

Final (above)

 

 Midterm (above)

Choose a project in the class and discuss your most challenging learning experience in Photoshop. Focus on a technique or concept from Photoshop that was difficult at first, but that you mastered by the end of the quarter.

         For my blog #2, I chose to do an advanced tutorial on Zombification. Through this course, I have not been challenged much with the tool are techniques used, but I have been challenged to strive for seamlessness and perfection in my edited images. In this project, I turned Blake Griffin into a zombie. Using the tutorial, I had to adapt the instructions to my selected image. My main difficulty in this class has been being consistent, and making sure that all my images look realistic, which I think I have achieved. 

 http://mearted252.blogspot.com/2012/04/blog-2-advanced-tutorial-zombification.html

Compare two projects from the quarter to compare and contrast how you achieved making meaning in the work. Try to showcase in your examples an improved capacity to making visual images that mean something as opposed to being a showcase of technique.

         I will again analyze the midterm and the final. For both of these projects I set to visually describe part of my personality through artwork that used symbolic layering. The main achievement in this artwork was the development of my personality though artwork. The differences were the big ideas explored. In the midterm, I explored dreams, and showed my plans for my life work (extreme work ethic). For the final, I explored the opposite big idea of fun. I did this through using my experiences in my fraternity in college. Both were layered, but in different ways. The midterm as very systematic and chronological. where the final was loosely organized.

(Images above)