Category: Project 4 (all)

4.3.3 Design Final: Exquisite Corpse Round Robin

4.3.3 Design Final: Exquisite Corpse Round Robin

From the beginning of the of the project it had started out as simple scanning of my favorite items but then it turned into a nice artwork at the end of it. It was fun doing the round robin during those two weeks and I do hope that the two that I added into came out really well in the end because I just did some simple images. For mine in the end the two people that did mine did add some good elements into the scan and it gave me an idea of the kind of elements that I could use for the editing of the project in the end. Even though there wasn’t too much to cover I still wanted it to turn out in to some thing that I think I will be satisfied in the end. So after doing some editing of the photo I was surprised at the end result of the editing I know that there are empty spaces but I think that it leaves some sort of opening to enhance the picture even more. At its current state I think that the pictures that were added in gave it a sense of culture with the elements included.

4.3.2 Design Iteration: Exquisite Corpse Round Robin

4.3.2 Design Round Robin

There was a variety of different pictures that I had used during the round robin for each of the photos that I had edited for each of my classmates. For this iteration of this project we collaborated with the other artists works and added in photos that we think would work very well with the scan that they had made for the concept of their project. The first one I got was I think a gladiator mask so my thinking of when it came to that was rally racers because they are the gladiators of dirt courses in the world. So I put a few rally racers and that was for the first round. The second round I had one that included a gladiator mask and a skeleton hand, so the thing that I thought about when I saw this one is the underworld, so I put in the grim reaper and Cerberus but the version that I had put inside was the version from an anime that I enjoyed from my childhood. For the project I enjoyed putting my ideas into someones artwork I hope that their projects did come out nice in the end because this was a lot of fun.

4.3.1 Design Prep: Exquisite Corpse Digital Round Robin

4.3.1 Design Prep: Exquisite Corpse Digital Round Robin

For my scan I had a little tricky time of thinking about what items I should be using before the main project should be done and since I was on the theme of cars I decided to stay on that concept. So, I brought in about a dozen and a half of toy cars that I consider my favorite from my childhood to now with the new cars being released constantly. Then after the scanning came to the prepping of the photo to get it ready for the round robin editing that was taking place. After changing things in the photo such as dimming down the resolution and then creating some so of gradient to shadow one of the cars. Creating a low resolution photo that is ready for some editing. During the process there were a lot of changes made and some cleaning up that needed to be done on the scan before the next person uses it for the round robin. The changes that has been done is ones that would make the image have a good amount of space that could give enough room for them to work with during the next process of the project.

4.2 Exercise Reflections

4.2.1 Scanning and Resolution

Doing scans shows us that there is a way to get old photos on to the computer without doing all of the extra work on them. Especially, when we want to scan thing there are a variety of different things that can be used to scan for any kind of project that a person can think of when it came to an idea such as the one that they want. Then the changes made to the scan can reflect on what they want to do for the project. For this exercise we took a scan and we had changed the resolution of the photo as well as the color scheme of the picture as well.

4.2.2 Tonal Scale

When it comes to editing adjusting the color and the overall look of the picture. For this exercise we had to take a picture with a sort of oldish look to it and give a more high definition look to it. Which makes it looks like the picture was taken with a brand new camera that has new advanced features on them that takes nicer pictures of the thing that they want to take a picture of during that situation. We just did changes to the color and made a switch from color and then into gray scale to see the different contrast.

4.2.3 Layering and Collage

When it comes to collages it is a mass amount of pictures that come together that would make a completely different art that looks completely different. With this exercise we changed had to assemble different parts of the body from various pictures of different nature. In this case we have a head, ear, back, legs, shoes, arms, and hands which are in the back of the picture. Starting with the hands and changing the hue of the picture. Then we added in the other pictures on to the picture and make a collage out of them. Plus changing the hue of those pictures as well giving them a different from the rest.

4.1 Reference Reflections

4.1.1 Collage in Art

Creating art comes in a wide variety of techniques meaning that there are different ways to manipulate photos. To the point of creating your own artwork with different shapes and techniques. There is an art form called collages which is bunching up together a variety of photos or different artworks that we can move around and resize to make it a new art piece that would capture the attention of people and give inspiration to other artists when it comes finding new inspiration of a new artwork that could be discovered later on in the future. Montages as well is a big thing that is used to put together many different pictures forming some sort of slideshow.

4.1.2 Layers and Transparency

There are other techniques that is needed to look at when it comes to working on projects especially art projects. In Photoshop, there is a technique that is used in that to do proper photo editing in the best quality as possible. With layering, Photoshop can help with editing and making new pictures and photos. Color changing, repositioning, resizing, and many other techniques are performed to make these pictures look their best after taking pictures. That along with transparency helps with making them look like pictures or projects that appeal to the persons eyes.