For this project we had to turn 2D images into 3D chairs. The purpose of the project was to demonstrate the importance of light and shadow. I decided to make one with a cloud background; I got inspiration from how clouds look so fluffy, and imagining that it would be soft to sit on them if they were solid. For the second chair I added a space/stars background to it; I was trying to make a chair that was kind of otherworldly, or maybe like you were being supported by space, or "floating" in it. One could say it was out of this world. I took the pictures for the new chair surfaces and used warp and puppet warp to help twist them into a shape that was close to the chair's shape. For the shadows I just used burn and dodge which helped give perspective, and different amounts of light. I used drop shadow for the overall shadow. The reason these 2D images look like 3D chairs is because of the way the shadows and light fall on the surface, creating perspective. I probably wouldn't do anything differently next time, although I don't like how there are limits on where and how you can warp something, for example how there are only so many places you can grab and warp.

For this project we had to make a comic strip. We took pictures of ourselves and then put them into other pictures, then used the brush tool to make them look drawn like a cartoon. We just had a simple "plot" of someone going to ride a tiger. The hardest part about this was getting shadows and contrast because its difficult to use the brush tool to imitate light.  Group: Alexander Hunt, Everett Fox.

This is my midterm project. I was blanking on what to do, so I just randomly slapped on stuff to make a sort of collage. At first I was trying to make a sort of face or something, which is why there are eyes and a mouth, however it didn't turn out very well so I gave up.

For this project we had to make a christmas card. I chose as background image of a lit up christmas tree in the middle of a snowy field. I then added a greeting and message.

These pictures are based off of NAPP tutorials. The first is a watercolor tutorial that turns a picture into a watercolor by giving it brush texture and faded darker colors. The difficulty for this picture was finding good textures for the background. The painting was also difficult, because I couldn't paint too much or it would get too dark, however if I didn't paint enough it didn't have enough color and looked faded. The second picture is a simple picture of a black and white swimmer with only the goggles colored. I just made the entire image black and white and then recolored the area that I wanted.

These two images are the original images that I used to create the kaleidoscopes.

This is a copy of the second kaleidoscope I made. Since the file was too big to upload I had to take a screenshot so this version is much smaller.