Final Portfolio

 

Animation Project

 The final project for this class is an animation done in Photoshop. I took a ~15 second long video of my dog running away and then back towards me. Then I split the video into layers using photoshop and manually drew her in each frame. Admittedly, my hand drawing is not particularly good. My hands shake from medication I have to take and it makes drawing both difficult and makes my hands fatigue very quickly, meaning the project simply took me a lot of hours. Taking all of this into consideration I’m really pleased with my final product. I think the animation itself is very smooth and the drawings of the dog ended up being cute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIoyx16Bgd4&feature=youtu.be

Autoscopy Project

 The Autoscopy project asked us to use Adobe Photoshop to produce some sort of distortion on our self image into a self portrait. This prospect was incredibly exciting to me and I immediately knew what I wanted to do. I used makeup, lighting, and photoshopped on hair to transform myself into the protagonist of my book ‘Idol’, Ivory. I made my eyes very intensely blue, took pink hair off of a model, and photoshopped on intense makeup and higher cheekbones to make myself look like her. We were asked to export the picture at a compression 100, 75, 50, 25, and 0%. Here I have the picture at compressions 100, 50, and 0%. Unfortunately the different compressions did not dramatically change my picture. However, I think I completed the overall objective of the project very well and I am very pleased with my final product. 

Multiplicity Project

 The multiplicity project had us using Adobe Photoshop to create a scene with multiple characters using only ourselves. For my picture I wanted to highlight what a day in the life of a chronically ill person is like. I took pictures of myself sleeping, taking medication, putting on my walking boot, doing physical therapy, and setting up and doing an infusion I have to get every day to keep my hydration up. I’m really pleased with how this project turned out. Working in Photoshop has been really fun especially because I have previous experience in it and was able to spend more time just enjoying the process. I think I could’ve done a better job not making the picture seem less crowded, however capturing what it feels like to do all these things in a small dorm room was one of the goals of the project and in my opinion doing it in any other space would have made it feel less authentic.

Black and White to Color Project

 For this project I used Adobe Photoshop to re-color a black and white photo three ways using color palettes created in Adobe Color. I used analogous shades of pink, complementary shades of pink and green, and a triad of pink blue and yellow as my color palettes. I ended up using the same selfie as my poster project because I wanted to redeem the selfie and prove to myself that I could create a good project using the same base that had failed previously. My favorite of the three is probably the pink and green complementary palette because I feel like it represents me as a person. Pink is my favorite color and has been for my whole life. Green is the color that represents both of my major chronic illnesses on awareness ribbons. I have often joked that my autobiography would be called ‘my life in shades of pink and green’ because of the significance the colors have held in my life. 

Poster Project

 In this project we were asked to make a poster in Adobe Illustrator using a picture of ourselves and a color palette created in Adobe Color. The color palette I chose was shades of pink to match the statement on the poster. The idea behind the statement and poster at large was to call out the idea that pink is a weak or childish color. However, I am not pleased with the execution. The selfie I decided to use for the project was exposed in a way that when converted to black and white many of my features were lost and I spent many hours trying to recreate them to no real progress. I think the eyes, eyebrows, and hair all came out ok, but the fact that my shirt and hair were both dark meant there was no real way to create definition between the two. Furthermore, the almost complete loss of my nose and mouth really take away from the overall look and message of the poster and the only way to fix this would have been to use a completely different base picture which I did not end up having time to do. 

Calligram Project

The calligram project used the concept of creating a self portrait out of words from a letter to ourselves. Out of all my projects this is my favorite concept and least favorite execution. The left side of my face is made up of negative things people have said to me, from bullying because of my appearance to doctors doubting my chronic pain. The right side is made up of positive things people have said to me, compliments from friends, feedback from teachers, and words from former loves. All that being said I know the execution of this was quite poor. I had to complete the entire project in less than two days after spending nearly an entire week in the hospital and only being able to watch one of the assigned videos. I don’t like making excuses because of my illness but unfortunately this was one of the times where it’s the only explanation for the finished product.