Project Description:
For this Art 74 assignment, It was required to create an Adobe Illustrator vector drawing out of any still life object. I chose a perfume bottle in my own room that I use frequently, so this was an item that I correlate myself personally with. I used the Illustrator pen tool to create many small vector points in order to produce the rough edges and achieve the effect of realism. I was then instructed to convert the vector drawing into a sticker cutout, and use Adobe Photoshop to make it appear like a real sticker. I experimented around with Photoshop tools until I was satisfied with my end result, and it seemed to look like a realistic sticker on my own computer.
After Effects Primer Project
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For this Art 74 assignment, the goal was to become familiar with Adobe After Effects by creating a short looping clip. The theme was to make a piece inspired by a famous art movement, so I chose the Suprematism movement. I stuck with the abstract visuals that encapsulate that theme, and added in little figurines made during that movement using Photoshop. I also stuck with a more neutral color palette, which I felt also added to the theme. This was the first time I had ever used After Effects or any kind of animation techniques, so it was intimidating at first. After various experimentation and trial and error, I came up with this short looping video that brought me out of my comfort zone.
Creative Coding Robot
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This was an Art 74 assignment that prompted me to create a simple robot design using coding in p5. I chose to create a robot inspired off of a cat design, because I have a strong personal love for cats. I wanted the design to be very clean and minimalist, which I believe I successfully conveyed. This was my first assignment that required coding techniques, so this was a new area for me. After creating an initial design in Adobe Illustrator and then replicating it using coding in p5, this assignment taught me how to create a design in code.
Digital Animation Project
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For this final project in Art 74, the prompt was to create a short video animation that mimicked a self-playing video game on Adobe After Effects. For my assignment, I wanted to create a very cute and comical cartoon video game. To create the visual design, I utilized Adobe Illustrator's pen tool to make a cute yet simple design. I then exported the design to After Effects, where I animated the image frame by frame. The game consists of two cats fishing for fish on a lake, and the goal is to catch 3 fish that are swimming by. This was one of my first times animating on After Effects, so this was fun yet intimidating to experiment and play around with. Although it took me a long amount of time to animate, and there was much trial and error, I am satisfied and proud of the end result.
Into the Wilderness
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"Into the Wilderness" is a digital video piece for Art 75 that depicts a recent camping trip I went on. Its purpose is to document the small beauties of nature, and to shed light on small details that may not be noticed to the naked eye, while keeping an orangey autumn aesthetic. I also wanted to capture all types of organic movement in nature, which can be seen in the clips. This assignment was one of the first times I had experimented with real video editing techniques, so it was relatively new. I spent many days exploring various video, sound, and color effects, which led me to this final product. I am very proud of this piece, and how much it brought me out of my own comfort zone.
Fragmented Memories
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My final piece for Art 75, titled “Fragmented Memories” encapsulates me going through the motions of my everyday life, while piecing together memories from my childhood that I have flashbacks of throughout my day. Throughout the video, we see the childhood memories slowly become less and less blurred and distorted, signifying the memories becoming clearer to me as I remember. I filmed videos from an old TV, part of the reason being I wanted viewers to feel like they were watching from an old TV just like I was. I then recorded moments from my current daily life, and used clips that ‘triggered’ these old memories and reminded me of the childhood clips being presented. To create the effect of the memories being distorted and foggy, I used various different Premiere Pro audio and visual effects, such as distorted echos and lens distortion. As the video progressed, I allowed the distortions to become less and less effective, to give the idea that the memories are slowly starting to become more clear to me. This leads up to the final ending scene, where I dream about a childhood memory that is finally vivid in my imagination. I am extremely proud of this piece I produced in the end, as it challenged me to further explore video editing techniques.
Yearning
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This piece for Art 3 is meant to serve as a deliberation of what it means to yearn for something that is beyond physical reach, but rather a memory of the past. It illustrates a television screen in the center of the image, containing a VHS video of a little girl playing surrounded by bright and vivid colors. Outside of the television, two hands are reached out from a darker first-person view, barely grasping a television remote and attempting to touch the screen. At the bottom of the image, covered in shadow, it can be observed that the hands are locked in handcuffs. The warm colors in the VHS video are meant to make viewers feel a nostalgic comfort, while the dark shadows surrounding the television are meant to invoke dreariness or dullness.I chose digital media(ProCreate) as my material because I wanted this piece to be a physical art work rather than conceptual, and this is a medium I am familiar and comfortable with. By illustrating both my younger self and my current self in the image, I wanted it to not only feel personal to myself but to the viewers as well.
Frozen in Time
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“Frozen in Time” is a conceptual spatial art installation piece for Art 3 depicting the effects of global warming on the human race. This piece consists of a large room resembling a dry desert environment. In the center of the room, an ice sculpture of a man working on a computer sits on display. Over time, the ice slowly melts away onto the ground, symbolizing how the depletion of time for humans to reverse global warming could lead to our eventual extinction. I chose to create a conceptual spatial art piece because I felt that placing a physical and large installation in front of potential viewers is the best way to represent how ‘large’ and ‘in your face’ this issue really is. Although many people choose to ignore the problem that is right in front of them, sometimes it needs to be confronted and viewed right up close in order to truly understand. Creating the conceptual image of this installation made me more comfortable using Photoshop than ever before, and I feel more confident as my skills in this medium continue to grow.
Marshall Applewhite - Adobe Illustrator Project
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This piece was created for an Adobe Illustrator class at Las Positas Community College. The purpose was to practice and become more comfortable with the digital platform, and the prompt was 'cult leaders'. I created this piece on the famous cult leader Marshall Applewhite, who is commonly associated with his strong universal faith, and his belief in UFOs. I utilized Illustrator's pen tool and challenged my own creativity to produce an imaginative depiction of Applewhite, that perfectly encapsulated who he was and what he was known for. By this time, I was already fairly comfortable with my using this platform, but producing this art piece made me more proud of how my skills and confidence were advancing.
Life and Death
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This piece was an assignment created for a color theory course at Las Positas Community College. Produced digitally on ProCreate, I wanted to experiment with the concept of mortality, and depict life and death through plant cycles. On the left, we see a shriveled, darker-colored plant appearing to be on the brink of dying, contrasted to the brighter-colored plant on the right, which is at the beginning of its life cycle, still growing in its glass enclosure. While these two plants are meant to show the contrast between life and death next to one another, they are also meant to suggest how one state of life can contribute to the other, and how they can go hand in hand. For the background, I wanted to create a somber but peaceful scene to tie into my concept, filled with muted, cool-toned colors, and foggy skies. This also suggests the beautiness and serenity that life can be, even in death. By choosing to focus on plants in order to convey the concept of mortality, I aimed to highlight the quiet durability and inescapable transformation of nature, and how it connects us as humans to all living things.
Washed Away
Project Description:
This assignment was a project created for a Color Theory course at Las Positas Community College. The prompt was to create an artwork based off of a song, and I chose "Scott Street" by Pheobe Bridgers. To me, this song perfectly encapsulates the feeling of nostalgia, and yearning for a childhood that has been washed away. Additionally, the song talks about the feeling of realizing that you have grown up and moved on from your past, which is a feeling I have been experiencing a lot lately. I created this piece digitally on ProCreate, using a stippling technique to achieve the realistic and textured effect. This assignment was extremeley comforting to me, because it allowed me to both explore my own emotions and create using a medium I love.
