InDesign Business Cards

Business Cards Artist Statement:

For our first project in InDesign we were tasked with creating three sets of unique business cards to use in conjunction with our logos we created. I wanted to stay consistent with my color scheme I used for my logo. So i used the swatches window to save the shades of blue and orange that I wanted to use throughout. I created layers for 6 pages of 3.5in height by 2in width. The layers were: Background, Art, Logo, and text. On each of these distinct layers I would create my styles for each business card and would have impressive control over how I wanted to color and line things up. I learned a few good uses for InDesign through this project and I feel confident as a beginner in the program.

Autoscopy Project

Ronan Tattersall

Artist Statement:

For this autoscopy assignment we were tasked with taking an image of our face and creating something different entirely. I chose to take my head and put it in space as a floating god entity. The behind background i played with all the colors to get a tone i liked. Then I tried adding adjustment layers to all my elements which would give them a weird trippy spaced out feel. I put the ship from treasure planet in there for scale and for fun. This assignment showed me that Photoshop was not as complicated to get a beginners grip of. This helped me feel like i was more competent using the layers and adjustment layers. I threw my tag brush on there as a signature. The cool retro looking Saturn was my favorite part to edit. It was a lot of fun playing with a lot of color changes.

Propaganda Poster Illustrator

Artist Statement: This is my propaganda poster that I made through Adobe illustrator. I started by uploading a photo into the program and drawing/outlining all the seperate portions of my face in layer order so that everything showed up. I think the hardest portion of this project was the lips because the original photo has a very weird lip formation. I enjoyed adding highlights to the hair to give it more texture as a single layer made it look flat. I struggled to come up with a simple propaganda slogan to suit the photo. I settled on change because I could put my tag brush in there as a letter and its a simple one word slogan. Thanks Obama. For the background I took the rising sun style propaganda and made it blue to go with the highlights on my face. I think of all the programs we have looked at so far illustrator has been the hardest for me but I'm glad I have a better understanding of it now.

Somewhere project

Artist Statement: For the Somewhere project, I liked the idea of putting myself into a movie scene. While I had thousands of options to choose from a lot of the lighting scenarios would have been tough to replicate without lighting equipment. So I settled on this outdoor shot from Ari Aster's Midsommar Horror film. By making this choice I have already given myself a good chance of matching the colors better in Photoshop. When I got working my hardest portion was getting my pen selection curves perfect to make a mask. After moving the selection on to the movie scene, I played with the colors, blur, vibrancy, and saturation of my selection. While I do think this project could be improved. For teaching myself it today I think it looks pretty solid and I am pleased with it. Something I tried to add and think failed a bit with is the shadow of my body, I added a burn shadow to the grass below my body but it seems to be too broad. I think this project helped further my understanding of photoshop as a program and its potential uses.

BW photo with Tag brush

This is my BW to Color project which also features my tag brush.

ARTIST STATEMENT:

For this assignment we were tasked with stripping an image to greyscale in photoshop  and then to recolor the image using an Adobe color theme. I liked this project as it took more time than I thought it would, it was a challenge to figure out all the masks and how neat they had to be. I learned from this project more than any other that patience is the key to the game. After many errors I was becoming frustrated but I got back down to the basics and I think as I worked I developed more and more into it. My favorite of the three is the monochromatic as I think that looks the cleanest.

Photoshop Tutorials

Here are three tutorials that helped me a great deal with my assignment:

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original

analagous

complimentary

compound

monochromatic

shades

triad

Artist Statement for BW Photoshop project:

As this is my first experience in Photoshop, getting comfortable with the program is taking time. I found this project quite pleasant though as in my major I have already taken an editing class on color correction in DaVinci Resolve. It is always fun playing around with the colors because you can completely change the dynamic of an image. From the above images it is clear that the same picture could be many different times of day to more drastic color changes. I also feel like my knowledge of color themes was improved and I will not hesitate to take advantage of the color theme creator. The only issues I encountered during this process was getting comfortable with the program and learning the shortcuts and window names. After a couple of  tutorials though it gets easier and easier. I'm looking forward to working more in Adobe Photoshop.