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.