Corrupt Amerikka

This piece is about  the mis-justice that commonly occurs in our society today. The dark blue represents the oppression of the people. The red represents the mis-justice done onto them. The flag represents the very thing that holds us down.

Representation of Myself

I believe this represents me because i am a very laid-back, chill person. I edited the photo adding cool tones to emphasize the chill. I then added a outer glow effect to show how bright my outer shell is. It also gives the effect of a rough exterior and a soft interior which is how i see myself. 

Barbie's Flower

Favorite Artist: Fahamu Pecou

 Ive actually gotten a chance to meet fahamu pecou. He was a very cool person, very in touch with himself and where he comes from and i believe his art expresses that. I enjoy the graphic aspects of his work and really enjoyed the collection where he used gold leafing to accent the works. 

Clean Air

This project was based off a clean air t-shirt deign. To create this image i downloaded various brush sets including a water color brush set and a coffee stain brush set. I used a combination of each brush set, and previous brushes of clouds i had made to paint this abstract image of the earth. 

Cultural Diversity: Artist Statement

   I believe we can break the barrier of racism by ridding our society of social norms. If we look at the world colorblind we can come to the conclusion that there is only one race, the human race. In this image I tried to express how far we have come. We have escaped the darkness that is oppression and we are on our way to the light of freedom. The image still depicts we have not broken the barriers but shows we have come a long way in this endless fight to freedom.

Cultural Diversity

Amerikkkan Korruption

To create this image i found an image of former rapper Capital $teez, who is now deceased. Once i found this image i thought back to the name of one of his albums called Amerikkan Korruption. I then downloaded a crack-affect brush, lessened the contrast on the flag only, and painted over the flag to make it look broken/corrupted. I then used another form of the crack-affect brush around the edges of the flag to give it a darker affect. 

Diamonds

This image was created for a collage project. To create this i used the tool to trace the lines on a diamond. I copied the line structure two more times, changed the colors, and placed them on the outer edges of the original diamond, I then took various images and cut them to fit each section of the diamond. I did this for all three structures and filled the background with a burgundy color. 

Parody: Meekvs.Drake

This project was based off  a parody. At the time  Meek Mill and Drake, two well-known rappers were in the middle of a conflict. To create this i took a scene from drakes newer song hotline bling and put an cut and pasted an image of meek mill by drakes hand to make it look like he was being dissed. This image represents true real life factual events. 

Apple 2.0

This project was based of photo manipulation of an already existing logo. I took the apple logo and copied one half and flipped it to the other side to create a mirror affect. For the background I filled a layer pink and then used the line tool to create a bar fading affect and made them various shades of yellow. 

Fine Arts Academy Logo

This image was created for the fine arts academy at heritage and includes all of the branches of the academy. The academy contains Dance, Fine Arts, Musical Theater, and Music. I took images from google that represented each branch and placed them in a balanced form. To create the text i used the text tool, on two of the letters i went into the 3D workspace and created shadows to create a 3D affect. 

Personal Logo

This image was supposed to be a personal logo. I found a tutorial on the interweb about making hippy/70s poster looking affects. I took an image of myself and followed the instructions to make my face look posterized. In the background i used a simple gradient from purple to orange. To get the text to look that way i had to download a font and warp it to bend like text would on a 70s poster. 

These are two images i took in Maine. Each photo was edited and included in the 7 principles of design piece. To include them into the piece i had to manipulate their contrast and saturation to make the colors more vibrant to fit the category they were supposed to fall under. 

7 Principles of Design

In this gif i created 7 different images to explain the 7 principles of design. The 7 principles are movement, balance, design, unity, contrast, pattern, and emphasis. After creating all of the images i assigned them to certain seconds to create  a gif, or overall continuous composition. 

Unfinished

This was a stop animation gif done with the same toy from the two previous works. In this gif i had to assign movements of the indian man and the background to certain seconds to create a composition. Each cloud and the toy had to move to different angles and places within the image to give an affect that the toy is falling. In the end the indian man is supposed to blow up into a mushroom cloud.. but we'll see if i get around to that. 

Stop Animation

In this picture i used the same toy from before but outlined him with bright colors to make  the toy stand out more. To create the background i used the gradient tool to get the dark to light pink affect.To make the clouds i had to get an image of a cloud off google, make the image black and white (adjusting the reds a little to create more blackspace), and then painted the rest of the background that i didnt want in the image black. After doing this i inverted the image and defined the cloud as a brush preset making it a paint brush. I did this for each different cloud and  placed them over the pink gradient to make the background look like a sky. 

Tutorial

This picture comes from a tutorial project. I found a stop animation tutorial and tried to create that affect with a little 50 cent parachuting indian. I took a picture of the toy, trying to make the parachute open like the toy was actually falling. I cut the background out from behind  the toy, copied him 3 times, and then placed him at different angles to create a falling affect. I also made the background from scratch and will explain that process in the next post ^^^^^^^^^

Self Portrait

This picture is an edited self-portrait created in photoshop. I took a picture i had previously taken of myself and edited the color of my eyes and gave a fading/cut effect at the bottom of the photo. To change the color of my eyes i had to use the  color replacement tool. To add the bar affect of the bottom i used the line tool, filled the lines in black, and set the weight a little heavier to get a bigger line. 

Future Hendrixx

Future is a popular modern rapper. He's my favorite rapper of this century. His music always solves my problems. I hope to meet him someday.