Warm

For this piece, it was just like the cool tone one, using the original template for our black and white projects, but turning it into warm tones.
Since the cool tone project was not as vibrant, I wanted to do something I'm usually not familiar with and technically not very fond of and make this extremely bright. Each color in this piece has its own place and I think it works well together.
I utilized the splatter pattern I had and turned it red, like blood. Very Dexter Morgan if you ask me.

Copy Cat

    For this assignment, we were given a page from a magazine that we chose at random. We had to replicate what we saw into our own work. The difficulty about this was the clarity of such small photos and also making the phone look identical to what the story was, which happened to be an interview. 
    I found this to be a good exercise in using all of the fundaments we have been learning in class.

Cool tones and much more.

For this assignment, we were to use the same composition we had for the black and white one. The wide range of colors that are included in "cool" tones gave me the opportunity to play with not just the typical colors people think are cold. Cool pinks went into my splatter theme in more than one spot.

I used the neon blue for the background because sometimes people seems to have the background go unnoticed. I wanted to change things up in this aspect and make the most "invasive" color the most prominent one.

Experimentation in Black & White.

In class, our first assignment was to create a piece that involved experimenting with the shape tools and black and white shading. The first step was to get our hands on creating basic shapes like squares, rectangles, circles, and even free-hand work. With mine, I chose to do a combination of quadrilaterals and free hand "splat-like" shapes. Some of the splats and squares represent the negative space, because most of the shading in this piece is of black or grey gradient. 

Within some of the squares, I wanted to gradually reduce the intensity of the shading by making it lighter, kind of like a tunnel. This was a kind of depth of feel.

I also chose to do some of my empty space not completely blank, but more translucent. Kind of like blending with paint, I did the same with my splats and squares.


I know that this can seem a little overwhelming and chaotic, but I think it gives good examples of different transparency, gradient, shading, and shape techniques. 


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