Title: "Pain reliever"
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My ideas of how my process is going to turn out to be. Some thoughts I had to jot down. And as well as who will be the artist I am inspired by. There are some ideas and as well as some things that needed to be put into my collage to make it seem more persistent. I also have the requirements that I would need to have about discussing this specific piece.
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The images: The images I chose to apply onto my digital collage. I made sure I had the type of movements that I wanted to put into my collage. These were the movements that I had in mind. These movements are simple, I didn't want to put very awkwardly movements in there because I know it would be very hard to capture.
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Planning sketches:Before I started out with the making of my sketches I was analysed the different movements and positions that soccer players do. And since I myself am a soccer I have knowledge of the many different positions soccer players do. But in my collage I wanted to apply the most common movements and positions that most soccer players do. I drew the sketches only using pencil. It was very hard to draw the position as is and making it be very clear of what position is what. When the sketches were done I then went through the process of scanning which made a big improvement to my sketches making them very clear and in depth. But the only problem was that the pencil wasn't dark enough so I had to lower the brightness of the pencil marks by using photo shop, I only used the tool that lowers down the brightness . It came out better than I thought it would.
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steps to starting To start working on my digital collage I will have to:
1.) Click onto files and click on the "new" button 2.) Make my image & canvas size 24 x 36 in. 2.) Make the resolution be 300. 3.) Then go on to the files button and hit open 4.) And then select all the pictures I want to use by hitting the control button and then clicking all the pictures at the same time. 5.) Lastly, you start working on your digital collage by using the different tools that are given. You can experiment the tools as well ( the tools I used most were) : M* The lasso tool - To select what out of each picture I wanted to select and then copy
* Quick select tool- Same thing as the lasso tool. * Rectangular marquee tool- so It can help me paste other photos into my piece * Move Tool- just to move some things around that I wanted to move. I experimented with other things that are not such tools but ways to make it easier to redo things or take away parts that I didn't want., such as the step backward or step forward button. Also what other thing I used to delete a layer was to go on the certain layer I don't want and then push the " right click" button and hit " delete layer". |
Artist inspiration:My artist inspiration for my piece " pain reliever" was Rene Magritte son of man". I like how in his painting he had the pear cover the man’s face. I did the same thing that Rene did with the pear but instead of the pear I used a soccer ball. He puts illogical images with startling clarity. "Son of Man" had purpose , to show the conflict between the visible that is present and the visible that is hidden. This goes towards my collage because I want to show like having the sport soccer seems to be visible and how it seems that I just play it as just being some kind of sport everyone just plays but then hide the true meaning of why I play this sport and what it does to help suit me in life. So I will incorporate the pear significance into my piece, but having a soccer ball covering my face. As well as having other me's surrounding me as doing different tricks.
"The Son of Man, 1946 by Rene Magritte." The Son of Man, 1946 by Rene Magritte. 2009. Web. 12 Nov. 2015. Citation: <http://www.renemagritte.org/the-son-of-man.jsp>. |
"History of Art ( Foundation Degree Interactive Medi." Web. 10 Nov. 2015.
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Reflection:
This digital collage piece was a very experiencing piece to do . You can gain many things out of it, some experiences that I have gained was how to use photo shop. Like I never knew there was such a thing till we started doing this project. I learned many new things that you can do using photo shop, such as editing pictures, emerging them and making them look how you would want. It was my first time ever using photo shop so it did lead to some difficulties such as knowing what each specific tool does and all the mistakes that was going to happen throughout this process. There were some specific tools that I could still not get or tools that took me a long time to understand what it does. But I mean after a while I got the hang of it and how to use photo shop. Even though I still look back at my collage and think that maybe there were some more tools that I could have experienced to make it more better. My collage though to me seems like its good for a person who barely started using photo shop this year. I like my piece, it shows what specific message I wanted to tell. Of course messages can't always be seen right away so that's why I also like my piece because you can't just really know what message I'm really explaining. Art pieces are supposed to keep you thinking and are supposed to make you analyze specific things that you can see visually .
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My digital collage " pain reliever" is obviously about what important aspect in my life helps relieve pain in me. As you can see in my collage, it's myself doing some soccer tricks that i know how to do and in the middle it's me holding a trophy with a soccer ball covering my face. Soccer to me is very important and it's a sport that i enjoy doing. Throughout my life i had a lot of troubles and obstacles where it caused so much stress and lead to me having so much anger in myself. I had many times where i would want to give up and just stop, but i knew i couldn't because if i did i would let down on my family and friends that had hope in me down. But during these obstacles and hardships i knew i had to do something to help me calm me down so that i could focus again and get right back on track. My family always insisted me playing a sport especially soccer since it runs down in the family, almost everyone plays in my whole family. One day I took the chance on doing so and ever since that day i have been playing. Soccer actually worked on keeping me distracted from all the hardships and difficulties and helped me gain control of what i was going to do. So since soccer helped change me and how i can lean onto that specific sport i thought i could put that into my digital collage. I incorporated Rene Magritte's piece " the son of man" into my collage because just like Rene i only wanted to show the visible part of soccer, as in you can see i enjoy it, but then hide on what impact the sport has on me.
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