Visual Research #4

I can openly and fully admit to the fact that I am a terrible artist. Luckily I have friends who are amazing artist, one of them being my friend Gerald. He is currently attending Expressions in Emeryville, Ca to be a graphic designer specifically for video games. This is his drawing of a famous video game character, Chun Li, from Street Fighter. Gerald drew this in photoshop fro scratch, and I believe its very good. Starting from the character, she looks like Chun-Li from the game. She is in a flamed background, but she doesnt look worried. She looks mad, possibly whatever the source of the flame is came from her. The background also transforms into a starry night sky in the upper left corner. the detail in the night sky is amazing, from the stars to the night cloud. Overall this is a great drawing.

Personal Post #4

This is a pretty cool picture I took myself last year. I remember the day very clearly, it was spring term of last year on my birthday. My ex and I decided to go out and take a day to explore Oregon and take some pictures. We went to Lithia Park and was exploring the river bed. I walked under the bridge and found this little flower laying still on the river, the current just passing by it. The flower, even though it was not on its plant, was full of life and color. I believe I captured its location in the perfect maner.

Assignment #4

Scratch Project:

I found a cool way to make simple backgrounds!!! I think its pretty nifty.




This one was fun, I was gonna make it about the San Diego Chargers, but then I remember I hate that team!



Who you gonna call???

Visual Research #3

This is an image I found that is from my home. I love the bay area and when I think about it I imagine the water, bridge, and city. In this image we see all three. The water is calm and wavy, there is a clear, blue, sunny sky. The bay bridge is running across the image spanning 2 pieces of land. The city looks beautiful in the background. On the back right corner we see that fog coming in, which happens all to often in the bay area. This picture, taken from sea level, perfectly represents what I think of when I think of home.

Personal Post #3

This is a drawing I did last term for a class I was in. I made a collage centered around video game themes and this was one of my best pieces. Its based off of the Mortal Kombat video game, which is a favorite for all gamers. It came out really good and even though the colors are basic, I feel it flows well.

Lab Assignment #3

These are my letters that I found:



This is an X made out of the holder for the dishes.



This is W made out of a candle holder that I found in my friends house.



This is a Q made out of this inflatable cup holder.



This is an O made out of a light fixture.



This is a C made out of a towel rack.

Visual Research #2

Deviant art is a great resource for finding picture and art from others. There are tons of people that post their art for others to appreciate. I found this picture while looking at photographs and I thought it was really cool. This is what the photographer said about this image: "Shot at Le Lac du Salagou, close to my village, Southern France". This image of landscape shows a beautiful calm waters with a hill in the center. The water looks bright, based off of the reflection of the sky, and it looks very calm. The hilltop is very unique as well since some of it looks full of life, while other parts are pretty bare. My favorite part of this image is the sky. On the left side we see brighter contrast, making me think that it is day time. On the right side we see more of a darker contrast. The balance between light and dark both on the ground and in the sky really makes this image stand out.

Personal Image #2

I hope this isnt cheating but I believe that film is a way of motion in art. Popular clips on all over the internet are based off of parodies, this is mine. I work at Best Buy back in the bay area and I often had to close. Closing was very boring when customers where not present since we didnt have anything to do. I made this clip on my camera phone after having the idea of making a parody of the Mac Book air commercial. My store had just received the new Mac Book air and I decided it would be fun to redo the commercial where the laptop arrives in a manila envelope and the person takes it out to show how small the laptop really is. It turned out to be a bit of a comic disaster since we didnt have the right envelope and I didnt know how to open it. I thought it was funny, especially for my first attempt at a parody.

Lab Assignment #2

So for the first photo on this assignment I had to take a self portrait of me. I was in class and for some reason was feeling the color. It was super bright inside since the color of the walls, the lights inside, and the sunlight. I am showing my school spirit, and I just shaved the beard :).



This is a picture of my good friend OG that I took. Its a close up of his face in an attempt to capture his beard. The reason why is because my good friend OG goes through fazes with facial hair where he tries to experiment with new styles and he believes he looks really good. Unfortunately his hair blends with his face, so it doesnt always look that great, at least in my opinion. I took the picture to have him look at himself and so he can see what I saw in that light! I was only clowning on the guy, if he is happy with the results then I am too.




This picture was kind weird to do. It is a bit strange to go up to someone and take a picture of them, but I am a pretty open, outgoing guy so I got over it. I was sitting at a restaurant with some friends and I knew it was potentially a good place to take a picture of someone for this assignment. I noticed this guy and at first glance I thought he was a pretty serious dude. He was just hanging out and talking to his buddies, but there was something closed off about him. He was calm and collective, where I am outgoing and loud. I approached their table and explained to them what I was doing and they asked me to sit. At first he was really quiet but after a while he got a bit more talkative. I learned that he was from Chico and was passing through on his way to Seattle. He was 24 years old and was on vacation heading up to visit his sister, he had friends in Ashland. After talking to the guy for a while I learned that, although I assumed he was different than me, we had a lot of things in common. We where able to share stories about video games and movies and tv shows and what not. We where also cracking jokes back and forth. I took the photo after I got him to laugh a bit to perfectly show the good times we where having.

Visual Research #1

For my first image as visual research I picked this awesome picture of the Golden Gate Bridge. I grew up in the Bay Area and I LOVE where I come from. I believe that one of the most recognizable image for the Bay Area is the Golden Gate Bridge. I have always admired photographers for being able to show you a frozen moment in time. All of the popular images of the Golden Gate Bridge are taken from a location called the Marin Headlands. I have been there a lot of times before and its always interesting to try and recreate these pictures. This one would be pretty difficult to recreate. The cars crossing the bridge make the bridge a passage way for lights, not cars and people. You can not even tell that there are cars on the bridge. The glowing lights reflect beautifully off of the water supplied from the pacific ocean. We can see a clear night sky directly above the bridge. In the background we see the beautiful city of San Francisco. The city lights are always a nice beacon of civilization for me. The last interesting point that I'd like to make about this image is the ambient light in the sky. There is a bubble of light in the background hovering above the city. Unfortunately I can not credit an author, since I have had this picture of a while. I hope you enjoy!

Personal Image #1

So for my first Personal Image posting I am going to write about, in my opinion, a really cool decal I found. When I am bored I look at random sights and while browsing lifehacker.com I noticed an entry about a cool decal for macs. I looked up the website and saw hundreds of decals for mac books that finds creative ways of using the apple logo. The one I liked was the Iron Man decal that used the lit apple logo as the hand laser. I thought it was awesome, but sadly it was sold out. I waited a whole month for the guy in China to make more and post them to sell. Once I received it I was very excited to make my mac unique, at least in comparison to the people I know. The decal gets a lot of attention and represents how geeky I really am!!! Etsy.com has a lot more mac decals that finds creative ways of using the apple logo, you should check them out.

Lab Assignment #1

So its time to continue blogging for Digital Media Foundations. Its going to be fun to learn more about photoshop. Here is my first lab assignment, I was placing my head on something else, enjoy :)




This was inspired by the decal I have of Iron man on my laptop, Ill post a picture of it on the blog, its pretty cool!




This was inspired by the movie I rented, Ninja Assassin, I wanted to be a bad ass ninja too!!!