For this project, I had a lot of trouble. I chose to do a mainly unified composition, which is much harder than it looks to be. I didn’t know how to compose my images to work with the grid provided. So I’ve been working hard on how to best compose my images that they look good. I feel strongest about my first, third, and fourth pages. I feel like they have the most harmony among the rest of the grouping. A couple of the images, like the AK on page 2 and the two images on page three have multiply effects on them. I think because of their coloring, it makes it look interesting.

I also ended up changing type around and justifying it in different ways. Once I started changing the type, things started to become a little more unified. I justified the type based on what was around it. I feel like that caused the type to have a more settled place within the composition. My title and body texts are a san-serif and serif. I found them on DaFont. They’re simple and clean, but they match the clean imagry I wanted for my project.

The light gray boxes were a last minute addition, but I think they add a lot to the image. Others may disagree, but for me, I wanted some color in the back since everything looked so plain and white. Here is the final image.

Here is the embed to the Yumpu Magazine

Here is the link to the Yumpu magazine.

This is the link to the PDF in my OneDrive.

This is the link to my OneDrive for DART 202

For Project 6, I’ve mostly focused on a Unity-defined organization. I’ve played around a bit with the heading type in order to bring a bit of layering into the composition. I decided to take the color for the label text from the image from my Ready-made video. I decided to figure out how to organize the type from the placement of the images. I mainly used the grid we created to place the images. I’m still not entirely happy with the placement of the images. I’m sure I’ll be placing things in different spots, and changing things around until I like them.

The only page I haven’t started working on is page 6. I’m not exactly sure what to do with it. I also may decrease the amount of type I have in my text boxes so I can make the type larger and spread it out a bit so it’s easier to read. I also want to fill up some of the empty space that is currently a problem in the document. In addition, I hope to find a unique type that fits the idea I had for my portfolio on a website like DaFont. I have had troubles with installing fonts in InDesign, but I hope I can do better now. Overall, this needs a lot of work, but it’s a start.

For this project, I was waffling between going with two different compositions. I wanted a clean look, but I also wanted something unique and interesting. So I was torn between unity and tension, and how to create the look I want within my portfolio. I also wanted to include type from my blog, so I ended up deciding with a unity approach. The first thing I thought about when approaching the unified composition, was which exercises, besides the main projects, and which aspects of the main projects would go in to accent the portfolio.

After picking a selection, which were things like this image from my Mandala project.

Or this from the exercises from project 5.

I came up with an idea that I felt had a little bit of both worlds that I wanted to delve into.

The topmost composition is the one I chose for this project. I think it has a bit of both unity and tension within it’s composition. I didn’t sketch too detailed in, because I figured I’d create some of the work organically within the program instead of pre-planning during the sketch phase. The sketches are a little too small to be able to detail that far in. Overall I’m very excited for this project, and the possibilities that it can bring.

For this project, I took a picture of my dog Poppy, and wanted to create a Warhol like work out of it. I started by cropping the image of her, and then copy and pasting the photo so that it had 11 copies of itself. I had a lot of trouble with the colors, and composition. I first started out with a very logical composition of colors. They were in a very drab spectrum, and they were very washed out. I had had some filters on them, and they were not working for the images.

The colors looked washed out, and dull. After this, I decided to amp up the posturization, hue/saturation, and viberance. I also added a grunge texture with a screen blend mode.

But this still wasn’t right, and I also forgot to account for the bleed in the images. So I went back and resized each image according to their position on the page. In doing so, I created this image.

I moved the images around to show contrast using the colors from the individual pictures. Once I finished moving them how I pleased, I found some more mistakes with the resizing, so I fixed those, and this is how the image turned out.

I then created a border behind this image so you could see it better on my webpage. This project was harder than I thought, but I think it looks okay.

For my project. I wanted to do an Andy Warhol inspired image of my 4 month old puppy, Poppy. I was inspired by some of the projects in the variations Hall of Fame, and I wanted to create an image of my animal that was similar, yet different.

I started out with this image. It’s a photo of her that I took a few weeks back.

I then took it into Photoshop, and cropped it in to her face using the rectangular marquee tool, and duplicated it twelve times to fill the entirety of the page.

After playing around with the Hue/Saturation, Posterization, and Vibrancy adjustment layers and blending modes, I was guided by my professor to change my approach.

After that, I found out that some layers were not colorized, due to me forgetting to click the colorize button.

After playing around a bit, I started to see where I wanted to be a bit more. But it still wasn’t there yet. The purple, dark blue, and dark green layers seemed to be too dark, and I wanted some sort of a grit to the drawings. Almost like they were silk screened.I also played with the colors that were throwing me off slightly to reduce the darkness they applied to the face. 

I found a grunge texture online, and repeated it six times over the image, Then I used the Overlay blending mode, and lowered the opacity here to about 58%.

Here I upped it to about 68%.

And I was finally somewhat pleased with it at about 73% opacity. I may reduce it a bit, but I’m not sure. Overall, i’m pleased with how this is shaping up.

For the Round Robin Remix, my files were a little bit messed up at first. I started out with my scanogram. Which this is how it looks.

But my file came back without my own scanogram at all. Our class had a scanogram that students could choose if they were unable to make their own. It was called the 00 scan. That scan was what my file came back as. After working with the professor, we inserted my own scanogram into the file as a JPEG underneath the wrong scanogram, and then I started working with blending modes on the 00 image to blend my image into the whole of the composition.

This is how the image looked by the end. The effects I used were Vivid Light on layer C. Under the vivid light layer, there is a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer that is changing the colors of the layers below it. Layer B is set to Screen to cause it to blend. I set layer A to Linear Light so I could further obscure it and allow my image to show through in an interesting way. It shows the characters through the image of the roll of paper-towels. It’s very cool. It also shows the texture of the towels over top of them. I feel the use of blending modes and layer effects adds a unique feel to the image, and I love how this one turned out.

For the Round Robin Remix, I got a file that was initially wrong back from the person who had edited it the first time. I found that there was nothing of my file in there, and I was confused as to why. Thanks to the help of my professor, we straightened things out. In doing that, I had to add the JPEG of my 300 DPI 8 by 9 Scanogram into the file itself underneath the image that was added in by my collaboration partner.

I added images to two different files in the Round Robin rounds one and two.I mostly used the coins from the Olympics in the first Round Robin round, in the second, I used the mask, the gold coins. and the hair-clip.

I’m sorry for not putting the links I found these at in. Whenever I try, they turn to images.

For my remix, I started out with a file like this.

It wasn’t exactly correct. Technically I shouldn’t have the 00 image from the people who didn’t create scanograms in my file, but I think it adds to the image and creates an interesting layering when used with opacity effects and blending modes.

I ended with this image. I used a couple of different blending modes and even a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer.

I think I really like how this is turning out so far.