Anamorphosis Critique

1. Describe the process you went through to change your object into the correct perspective to create the drawing. This is when you were in the lab. We went on photoshop to transform the picture into a bigger and deformed picture by raising the scale for height.

2. How did distorting and stretching the object allow for you to create a drawing that would look different to the viewer?  This made the top of my cupcake stick out making it look like an anamorphosis and stick out to make the perspective look 3D.

3. What were the most important concepts in the project to make it successful? 

Making sure the grid was lined up with the picture was important otherwise the picture would look off. Blending colored pencils help make the picture look real. The shadows were pretty hard for me and they didn't turn out well.

Big ben stencil

1. Explain how you changed your photo in the lab to create a stencil. We went on photoshop to change the threshold of the picture. The pictures contrast turned to black and white to create positive and negative space.

2. When creating the collage background explain your choices of colors, materials (magazine paper, books pages, etc), and placement. How does it relate to your topic? If no relation discuss general idea. I took a collage of magazine paper and I used pictures that related to old time fashion, Europe, or city like things because that is what London is known for. I used the color purple because it is a royal color and England is considered a royal country because of the kings and queens. The composition of all the colors looked pretty well.

3. Discuss the way positive and negative space was used to create your stencil. I took the details of the clock on my stencil and turned that into negative space. I wanted to keep my collage a background so I did.

4. When using the xacto knife, explain the safety procedures, how to use the knife and any challenges you had to overcome while cutting. When using the xacto knife, you need to cut away from your body. It was frusterating after a while to cut the whole stencil out because you had to make sure you didn't accidentally cut something you didn't want to cut.

5. How was your experience with the spray paint? Discuss how color choice is important, placement of stencil, and any other concepts you noticed while creating this. Spray painting was fun. I used a just regular black with a light purple around it to make it stand out. The background and the stencil balance well because of the paint I used. If I used a brighter color the background wouldn't stand out as much.

Perspective game board drawing

I did a picture of chess. It was a bit difficult for me to do the lines of the chess board. It was hard to line them up perfectly. The pieces were pretty good except I didn't make them smaller towards the back. The washes of watercolors and colored penciles are good and the shadows looked good but could have been stronger. The blending and overlapping of the colored pencils and watercolors went pretty well. I think I should have colored the background because it would have made the perspective of the picture better. Everything lined up with my vanishing point on the horizon of my picture. The overall values were good. I learned that you have to be very patient in order to get the perspective to look right.