Summary

Over the course of this semester, I've learned a ton about the editing features we use. I'd already sorta known how to use Photoshop (I have PSE8 at home and a Bamboo Tablet), but I didn't know how to use Correl Painter at all. In fact, I didn't even know it existed!
My two favorite projects are the Space Scapes and the Pop Art. Whenever I had nothing to do, I'd go and make a space scape in Correl Painter. I've gotten really used to Correl Painter, and I wish I had it on my laptop.
I really enjoyed this class, because I love to use Photoshop, and its really fun to be able to just use the computer all day to create art.
I am so taking DA2 next year!

Random Creations for funsies

Just some drawings I would do in my free time, when I wasn't making more of other projects (Hence why I have 5 Spacescapes, 7 Landscapes and an extra Pop Art)

obviously this didn't take me long to make. 

This, however, took a lot longer. I made this just a week ago.

This was originally on my color wheel, which I copied and re-did but in a bigger size.

4. POPIN ART (Pop-Art Project)

We learned about the pop-art movement, and how much it changed the way that society grew in the 20th century. I learned things about Photoshop I didn't know about before, and I learned how to use Adobe Flash and what it does. I really like pop-art, since you can make pretty much anything into pop-art. It doesn't even have to be pretty, it just has to be interesting to the eye.

Artists we learned about: Andy Warhol, Robert Rauchenberg. Roy Lichtenstein, Shepard Fairey

For this one, I used Flash to create the vector-based lines. I really like Flash, and I really wish I had it at home because it's so cool and easy to use. Also, I could make a cartoon with it. That's pretty cool.
This one was very easy to make, and personally I like this one so much more than the other.

This was created solely with Photoshop CS5. I found this to be much much harder, since there were literally hundreds of work paths I had to create and fill, and there was absolutely no way to get the lines perfect, which is why they are so poorly fitted together. I like the face more than anything else on this picture, but things like the hair, shirt and hand were really hard to make. The background is in benday dot formation.

This is the same exact image as above, but everything is in Black and white Benday dot formation.

3. Mythical BEASTS (Mythical Beast Project)

We had to create our own mythical creatures in Photoshop, and this took me a very long time to make. We used a lot of features I'd already known  how to use, but the way we used them was completely new to me. I didn't particularly enjoy this project as much as others, probably because it was a lot harder and more time consuming than all the other projects.

We learned about surrealist artists like: Sigmund Freud, Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Freida Khalo. 

This is my creature, the Elemello. It's an elephant-like creature, but it's made out of rainbow marshmallows.
(Clickety-Click on the picture to see it more close up)

Our first try, I made a Narwhal out of a mango and a fish out of an orange. I also edited a picture of my eye and eyeball to add to the creatures. The Narwhal looks sort of derpy to me.

2. Land.....scapes (Landscape Project)

We had to create at least 5 landscapes, using Photoshop CS5 and Corel Painter. I'd never known about most of the features of these programs that we used.

Artists we learned about: Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh

This, I painted with nothing to trace in Corel Painter. It is a similar rendition to the original scene, filmed in Doctor Who: The End of Time , Parts 1 & 2. (Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor Who, though I wish I did)

In Corel painter, there is a setting called "Auto van-Gogh". We used it to make one of our landscapes resemble a Van-Gogh painting.

The very first landscape I made in Corel Painter, it is a simple mountain range meeting the edge of a lake. With a waterfall in the background. The sky is cloudy and gray, because that was the easiest option for a sky at the time.

And we begin with the Photoshop landscapes! We took images from Google Images (that are OK for reuse) and edited them so that they looked like a regular landscape. Then we made trees, and had to copy and paste them 3 times in 3 different colors. We also had to add shadows, which personally was the hardest part for me.

This was one I did extra, it's more of a seascape with a small peninsula in the corner of the image. I played with lighting effects to make it look like a sunset (even though thats where I failed in this picture).

My very first Photoshop landscape, this one has only one tree (since it didn't need three). You'll never guess what I used to make the sky!

This is one of my favorites, if not my very favorite. I re-created an image of the make-believe planet of Gallifrey, the lost planet of the Time Lords from Doctor Who (Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor Who). The only real picture I used was one labeled for re-use, with which I used to add in the Citadel of the Time Lords (the big glass ball with the city inside). This landscape was never in the show, since they never told of a lake on Gallifrey. Gallifrey has two suns, and everything is red and orange.

With the Landscapes came the color wheel! We learned a bit about colors, shading, and tones, which was crucial because we were beginning to "paint" landscapes. We also learned a bit about making curved text, which we'd used previously in the space scapes.

1. Space! The 'scapes. (Spacescape Project)

For the Space-scapes project, we had to create scenes that somebody might see in outer space. If you
look closely, many of my creations have a planet in it that resembles earth. We used Photoshop CS5 and Corel Painter 11. With this project, we learned how to use Photoshop and Corel Painter. So basically, everything we know started with this project.

Artists: We didn't really learn about any particular artists, but we did look at a lot of past work done by students.

W had to edit our faces onto a 3-D object in Photoshop CS5, and add/create rings and text rings.

In this picture, its what it might look like if a planet or two (or three for that matter) had entered some sort of black hole or wormhole.

Here, there are multiple large stars, and the planets are very closely-packed.  The planet on the left makes me think its a gaseous Holiday planet.

This is one of my more favorite pictures. Two planets, very close together, one a gas planet and one a rock (much like earth), with 3 bright stars to light them.

This is the very first one I made, its a large earth-like planet with 3 moons, 2 of which are gas planets.

This is my first attempt at a 3-D planet, which I also attempted for the first time at creating rings. Personally, I don't like how it turned out.