Animal hybrid without the horns

I just posted this because I liked how it looked without the horns. This is not a part of my actual project.

Animal Hybrid Project

Animals used:

Reflection:

1)   What is the strongest part (visual area) of your finished art piece? Why?

I feel that the strongest visual area of my piece is the face of my hybrid animal. I only really changed features in the head and face of my animal, and the picture I started with was very focused on the face to begin with. I also didn't change anything about the body any way, so it is clear that this is the strongest area.

2)   What part (visual area) of your art piece can be improved on?  How can it be improved on?

I think that I could have blended the horns better onto the head. I don't think it looks terrible, but I think blending it a little more would only improve my piece, and make the animal really look alive.

3) What Tools did you use to create your work?  How did you use these tools? Explain.

I used a number of tools to create my work however the most critical to create this piece were the move tool and the layer mask tool. The move tool I used to resize and adjust the original image, and with the layer mask tool I was able to take different pieces from each image, and make them look like they were a whole. I also used the clone stamp tool to help blend things together, and image adjustments to change the colors of the image. This is most prevalent in the eyes of my hybrid animal.

4)  What was easy about this art activity? Explain.

The easiest pat of this activity was applying the lion's face onto the lizard's face. The lizard's facial features and colors were so similar to the lion's that it was really just a matter of resizing the lion face and getting rid of any parts of the lizards face that was not already covered up by the lion's face by using the clone stamp tool.

5) What was difficult about this art activity? Explain.

Honestly the most difficult part of this assignment was finding images that fit well together. I ended up only using three images, but so much time was spent just experimenting with different images to see what looked good and what didn't.

6)   Describe how you demonstrated each of the objectives (goals) of this art activity?

Well the only objective for this project was to  "use the layer mask and clone stamp to seamlessly create a hybrid creature out of 3 or more animals." which I think I did. I also already  explained how I used the layer mask and clone stamp tools to create this image.

7)   If you could do this assignment again, what would you do differently?

If I could do this over again I would probably try to go pack and give my creature lion paws, so that their were more lion elements in it. However I am very happy with how it turned out as it is.

8)   On a scale of 1-10 (10 being the best), how would you rate your effort in this project? Why?

I would rate my effort on this project to be a ten. I was very happy with how this came out, and for the most part I would say that all of the elements in image came together very well. I put a lot of time into making sure nothing looked to out of place, and this is definitely a creature I could see in a video game or something.

Pop Art Project Reflection

1) What is the strongest part (visual area) of your finished art piece? Why?

The strongest part of my finished piece is probably the lower right image. I think that the colors I chose for this image contrast the most, and are the most visually appealing of the 4 images.

2) What part (visual area) of your art piece can be improved on?  How can it be improved on?

I think that the image in the top left of my piece is the weakest. I feel like I should have played around with the colors more because the blue I used was very bright, and the greens look very similar to the yellows in the image next to it.

3) In what ways was the magic wand tool useful in creating your art work?  What did you do to make your portraits unique?

The magic wand tool made this project extremely easy. I can't imagine trying to this project without it. It made it very simple to change the colors of each image, so I was able to complete this project in a very short amount of time. I tried to use the colors as my main way of making each image unique. So, just changing the colors so the images across from or next to one image didn't look the same. 

4) What was easy about this art activity? Explain.

The easiest part of this activity was preparing the original image so that changing the colors would be easier. To clarify, changing the image to black and white, and posterizing it was very simple.

5)  What was difficult about this art activity? Explain.

The hardest part of this activity was figuring out what colors to use. I tried to use contrasting colors that weren't white or black, so I ended up with one image that didn't use contrasting colors. I don't think it looks bad, but I think I could have done better.

6) If you could do this assignment again, what would you do differently?

If I were to do this assignment over, I would want to play around with the colors more to make a really unique piece. Overall I think my piece is relatively basic/simple. Therefore if I were to do this over again I would use more complex colors, and possibly add more shades of black, white, and grey.

7)  On a scale of 1-10 (10 being the best), how would you rate your effort in this project? Why?

I would rate my effort on this project as a 9. Overall, I think I just could have done more on this project to make it different, and stand out a little more. I mean it's pop art after all.

Pop Art Project