Surreal Practice Tutorials

In the desert tutorial we used many of the tools in Photoshop. One of the tools or techniques we did was making the cracked dirt ground. We duplicated the image to make the desert ground bigger instead of just a square of that. We also distorted the image to make it seem like a real desert not an image of a ground. To make it a little bit surreal we used a gradient and we changed it from normal to either overlay or screen, I changed mine to screen because overlay made it look to not real. We also did a gradient on the sky so it won’t look like just a blue sky. The clouds were paintbrushes we uploaded into Photoshop. We didn’t cover the whole sky with them but we made it seem like a real sky with clouds. For the light pole to look realistic we made it a shadow. With these two tutorials I have more of an idea of how to do my surreal artwork. It will help me make it seem realistic but at the same time it won’t be realistic. It will also help me think of what pictures I can combine with each other and how or where to place items or the pictures.

Art Show" My Past"

My past quilt describes how I see all that has happened to me in the past, especially in my quincenera. This artwork describes how I also see life. Life for me has been so different in these past years. In this quilt there is sadness happiness and joy reflected. For this project I made it all about when I turned 15 years old. This was an important time for me because it was the first time my whole family got together. I decided to put a collage of pictures of all my peers and family members that I know are always going to be by my side no matter what the situation or when I need them.
I really liked how my quilt came out. It truly represents who I am and whom I care about. I also liked the fact that I included a poem I made and that I read to all my family thanking them for being there for me.

Graduation Program

After all the examples of the graduation programs I think one of my strengths in this work was the idea of graduation and a litle bit of elegancy. This work was one of my favorites because graduation is a big topic to senior now adays. I think I could of made it more elegant or maybe less purple. Graphic design was difficult at first but once you start trowing your ideas into photoshop you make them just how you want but thinking about the people who you are making this for. I think one of the important parts of graphic design is know ing your customer and for who you are making it for because if you are making it lets say for a teacher conference or something then you are most likely not to include pictures of students or just pictures of school or something like that.

Student Handbook

With this program I think I didnt had a strengh but the pictures showing students from chavez was really a good idea because after all it is the student handbook. With this program I could of put more pictures of students and not leaving too much space.