Digital Painting

The strongest aspect of my work would be coloring in everything in the end to make it look neater. Somewhere throughout making this project, all of the painting that I did got cut, and become choppy. I went through and fixed everything to my specification. An aspect of my work that could be improved on would be blending everything together. Some parts of my work was easy to mix, other parts like the clothing for instance were more difficult to blend. I think I did a good job with blending overall.

The easiest part of this project would have been tracing the original image. I sketch a lot of picture like this, and it is the one thing that I love to do. The most difficult part of this project would have to be painting and blending everything together. Whenever I draw a picture in my drawing book, I have to make it look "perfect". The easiest part to drawing is sketching, just like with the pictures that I draw, I have the most difficult time coloring in and blending everything.

For this art activity I demonstrated how to use different varieties of the mixer to give my basic flat colors depth and how to use the eyedropper tool. Just like with the paintbrush tool, I painted the depth with the mixer brush. Using the sketch part of my project as a guideline, I would use the mixer brush tool to make certain areas darker, lighter, and more detailed. To use the eyedropper tool, I would pick up the colors from the image that I made a digital painting from. I picked up all the different hair colors, clothes color, skin colors, etc. If I could change something about my project, I would choose a different picture to make into a digital painting. I thought that this project would take only a week or two to complete, but having a photo as intricate as this one took longer than expected. I would go with an image much more simpler than this one next time.

Hybrid Animal

The strongestaspect of my work would have to be the healing of the parts added onto the killer whale. I was able to choose what I wanted to add to the killer whale, then I healed the images to look like a realcreature. An aspect of my work that could be improved on would be actually adding the new animal parts onto the main animal which in this case would be a killer whale. I had to manipulate the dolphins head because the dolphin that I found an image of was to small for the killer whale. Once I manipulated it, I had to set it into place so that it would fit onto the killer whale.

The easiest part of this activity would have been placing the animal parts onto the killer whale. Each layer added onto of the killer whale took some time. In the end I was happy with the positioning of each of the added parts of my hybrid. The most difficult part of this art activity would have been healing the added parts onto the killer whale. The healing tool would either heal to much, heal to little, and it took some time to figure out how to heal the image to how I wanted it.

In this art activity I demonstrated the cloning tools and healing tool. I used the cloning tool to copy the particular animal parts that I wanted to place onto my background animal. I also used 10th cloning tool to copy the texture from the lion and placed it onto the killer whale. I used the healing tool to make the new animal parts look like they are part of the killer whale. It took a few times to get it right, but after awhile I was able to get the new animal parts to look like they were on the killer whale the whole time. If I could do something different with this project, I would choose different animals. I would probably choose a dog, cuttlefish, and a fish.