Finished Anatomy Photomontage

Here is the finished product of my anatomy project. We were supposed to make a photomontage incorporating the human anatomy. I tried relate the Sistine Chapel's God giving life to Adam. I drew both hands and found the background image online. I also added a verse from the Genesis on the bottom left.

For this piece, I would give myself a 5 because it does show thoughtful investigation of the 2-D design elements. It has color, contrast, line, type, and value. It shows a range of original ideas, and even though it is a variation of a previous work, it still shows my "voice" and my own perspective of the image. The piece does show a variety of interpretations, and it is, overall, and strong breadth piece. 

Hand

This is for the new anatomy project we are currently doing in class. We have to make a photomontage incorporating the human anatomy in some way. This is just part of my project and I will post the rest later this week!

Contrast Pieces

Here are some pieces I did for fun. What I did is I took images from my favorite bands and I added their names on their pictures. I used transfer paper to transfer the picture on the board, and then I painted it. 

Logos

I did these two logos separately, one junior year(top) and the other(bottom) senior year. For the first one, I was asked to create a logo that expressed my future business if I were to have one. I couldn't chose between architecture or animation, so I tried to incorporate both. I also have a stationary project that goes with this that I will post later on. For the second one, I wanted to express more of the graphic design or typography approach. I love typography, so I used an exercise we learned in class by putting our initials in big letters and connecting the other letters of our name to the giant initials. The surrounding letters have to be different kinds of type.   

Artist Trading Cards

For this assignment, we had to make 17 artist trading cards. This is an international project that is done in many schools around the globe. Each student makes a certain amount of cards and then, once everyone is done, we trade all but two away to our classmates. Once we go to college, we can trade with other students and so on. It was so much fun and now I have a whole new set of cards. 

For this assignment, I would give myself a 5 because there are many 2-D design principles used such as line, shape, color, value, shading, and contrast. My cards are original ideas and not made with superficial decision making. The cards are not themed, but still express a variety of expressive qualities. Some of my best cards, above, are engaging as well as technically strong. The cards could have been a little more clean when I was painting so they wouldn't have been so choppy looking. The cards could have been a little more uniform instead of just painting whatever came to the mind. Overall, the top cards are good. 

Memory Book Pages

For this project, we were asked to create a book filled with our favorite memories. We could use any medium we wanted as long as we filled the whole book. Here are some of my favorite pages from this assignment. 

For this assignment I would give myself an overall 4 because they do explore the 2-D design principles, and express and innovative thinking. The problem is that there aren't as many 2-D elements explored as there should be. The bowling birthday square page would be my favorite because it shows the most confidence in expressing my ideas. The art page could have been done in a different way that might have made the page more engaging. The ideas that the pages are trying to convey are apparent. The bowling page has a lot more going on than the others and might be a little too busy. But, overall, the pieces  are OK.