Famous Landmark Stencil Critique

  Famous Landmark Stencil Critique

Word Bank: Use these vocabulary words in your responses. Please underline or make letters bold when you use them. 

Stencil                 Spray Paint       Xacto Knife        Positive/Negative Space

Composition    Collage                Photoshop        Threshold              Contrast

1. Explain how you changed your photo in the lab to create a stencil.

To change my image of the Golden Gate Bridge in California, we used photoshop and changed the contrast of the composition so that it was all black and white.

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.

For my collage, I used book pages that looked like they were from old books. I placed them so that they were overlapping and so there wasn't really any space that was blank or plain.

3. Discuss the way positive and negative space was used to create your stencil.

You had to cut out stuff that you wanted to be negitive space out of the threshold and keep the stuff that you wanted to be positive space.

4. When using the xacto knife, explain the safety procedures, how to use the knife and any challenges you had to overcome while cutting.

While using the xacto knife, you had to be very careful so that you don't cut yourself on accident or make alot of mistakes. I made the mistake of making my stencil to thin and it ended up having more negative space then positive space.

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. 
I liked this project since we used spray paint and that was fun. The color choice is important so you can see the image clearly. But it did felt like the overall project was kind of long and dragged on.

Anamorphosis Critique

Anamorphosis Critique

Word Bank: Use these vocabulary words in your responses. Please underline or make letters bold when you use them. 

• grid
• perspective
• shadows
• scale
• transform
• photoshop
• value
• colored pencils
• anamorophesis

                 

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.

 First, we had to find that objects picture that we wanted to transform. We then opened the photo in photoshop and distorted the image. We changed the scale size and the perspective so that it didn't really like how it started out at.

2. How did distorting and stretching the object allow for you to create a drawing that would look different to the viewer? 

Distorting my image and stretching it made the picture look differently to the veiwer since it wasnt the same as the original picture and people arent normally used to seeing distorted pictures like that.

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

Drawing the image so that it has a lot of value was probably one of the most important things to do while creating the image so that it looks more realistic. Using colored pencils in order to add color was also pretty important. You also needed to make sure that you had shadows in your final drawing so that it looks more real. Drawing the image grid section by grid section was also the key to making it look more like the actual picture.