Final Exam

For my final exam I took two photographs (the art) and created a design that displayed a message about the Earth. I took these pictures: 

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With these two pictures I created my own "art" by placing the Earth into the clock face, as a sort of "final countdown."

To make this an understandable design and not just art, I added the phrase "Clock's Ticking" to emphasize that the person viewing the design was running out of time. I also added a "watermark" of repeated tick tocks to reinforce this. The design is a focused piece on the plight of the Earth and it motivates the viewer to start making a difference before time runs out.

My Ninjas are Better

I also was making ninjas for the past couple days (I found the tutorial first!). I decided that I would make them as characters to put on signs for around backstage. I made several characters:

The only thing I did not create was the drill (although I thin I would have figured it out if I had more time).

Boat Detailing Pt. 2

COMPREHENSIVES:

The second one is supposed t be "Jaws" in the teeth. I think I'll stick with regular teeth.

ASSEMBLY


FEEDBACK


REVISIONS

Boat Detailing

IDEA: Make the cardboard boat I'm designing for Engineering fearsome and cool looking with vinyl stickers


SPECS: Approximate boat size: 8 feet long by 2ft tall by 2 ft wide


RESEARCH: eHow had a nice crash course on vinyl. I'll be making the shark in sections. I also have pontoons to worry about.

Talking to Jones has also clued me in to the fact that vinyl's expensive and I probably can't use this much. Therefore, I will be making only a vinyl outline of the shark and the mouth and teeth.


PLANNING:

Neon Nighthawks

IDEA: Using a tutorial to create neon signs, make a neon sign for the diner in the classic painting "Nighthawks" by Edward Hopper

SPECS: haven't decided color/size/etc.

RESEARCH:

New Project: Piece of the Arctic: JUST KIDDING

So I can't make this project because it's on a later version of photoshop that involves 3D tools. Which we don't have. So now I'm going to find a new project.


IDEA: Make a pretty picture. Basically.

SPECS: First I'll recreate the tutorial, then maybe instead of and Arctic environment I'll do a coral reef or something.

RESEARCH: This is the tutorial

Miscellaneous

I'm looking through all of my documents to see  if I forgot anything. Here is what I found (apologize if there are repeats):

This was a shirt I designed but it was a one or two day thing that never really reached production stage.

I was working on my Hansons T-shirt and I tried out a tutorial that was supposed to make the "Obama Campaign Poster" effect. I stopped though because I actually liked it the other way I was doing it. Also, I liked the black and white contrast:

And this is a tutorial I did for that "fire surfer" project thing:

Maybe why I take so long to do projects is because I do too many tutorials? (Wow that is not proper grammar).

I also spent one or two classes trying to design the ceiling of an astronomy building for a play, but that did not pan out...at all.

I think that's it