For my final piece, I decided in the beginning to do what did in the beginning of the year with the inspiration map and the geometrical art and combine them to bring it to a full circle. My interests have changed since the beginning of the year just like my inspirations have so I decided to include my boyfriend, Ryan. He is a huge inspiration and honestly I don't know what I would do without him encouraging me and supporting me.

But after doing the geometrical art, my Photoshop trial ended so I decided to grab Pixlr and try and work with that. I used two overlays, which were this firework and a red tiedye so I can give off how passionate he is about most everything he does. And then I went and dimmed down the opacity to have it fade so it stands out while not covering him up.

I used the quote "The ones that love us never really leave us" from Harry Potter and did the same thing with the opacity that I did with the overlays. While this quote has leaving = dying, I altered the leaving to equal how he is going away to college this upcoming school year. And how I know he will still love me while he is at college and he'll love me just as much, if not more, when he comes back home.

Anachronistic

For this one, I decided to throw some humor in and say "Don't Text and Bike" which is a play off of something that is said today "Don't Text and Drive". Since back in the early 1900s, most people used a bike to get around, so I decided to use an old fashioned bike but throw in the slogan from today and the words text and an iphone.

Pulp Project 2

I decided to go with a space themed pulp design. I can't draw too realistically (unless it's eyes) so I took a picture of my model that I use to practice drawing and used the magnetic lasso to select it, then I copied and pasted it into the green area. Then, I decided to use color it black and used the dark stroke filter to contrast it to the bright green light beam which i colored in, along with the space ship, and then used the plastic wrap filter. I used the model instead to create a genderless damsel in distress.

(Also my 1st pulp cover is on the lab's computer so I will be posting that one on Monday when we come back)

ArtStart

"The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal, is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you."

- Sister Wendy Beckett

A lot of people like to say that there is no such thing as bad art. Essentially, they are correct, in my opinion, but yet in Beckett's eyes, they are absolutely wrong. The true test to see if a piece of art is good doesn't lie in your preference and style, but what it makes you think of the world and yourself. It's suppose to change your view of the world around you and the world inside yourself, and if it doesn't, then it's not good art. And to an extent, I agree, but sometimes art doesn't have to reach your soul to be good art. Art is about expressing yourself in the most creative way possible and just because it doesn't change everyone's worlds, doesn't mean it's not good or not special to you.  

WIP Pulp Project (2nd)

I plan on using this drawing I did and a space background for my second Pulp piece. I was thinking of putting a damsel in distress in the green space and then using a chrome filter to add an metallic feel like I did with my 1st one so it can be connected together. I plan on using a female as a damsel in distress, due to the fact that in my first one I used Justin as my "dude in distress" so that way they can be polar opposites yet connected with that metallic chrome feel.

Anachronism Inspiration

Okay so by suggestion of Mr.Ross, I decided I would work with the Pre Raphaelite paintings since they were known for their long flowing hair and I was working with the idea of having a girl with short hair way before it was in style. I saw this painting and thought that I could work with the idea of mermaids with short hair. Though I might have to make it a little more conservative for school purposes.

ArtStart: "Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything" - Eugene Delacrois

By seeking perfection in everything, in the end, you'll get nothing done. To try to achieve perfection, it's truly humanly impossible. Humans are supposed to be imperfect beings, not perfect, and that's what's so brilliant about us. That we have to be imperfect to achieve anything in life.