Fundamentals of Design Emily Gomez

I think that the museum was interesting as it had many different illustrations that highlighted its  artwork through books. Advertising, animation, editorial media, fashion, and digital design.  David Curtis mentioned that he went through many different hardships and many different  sketches in order to complete a final on his project with the book covers he was creating. I really  liked the different concepts he had for the book “it” as I was fascinated by all the different ideas  he had with the cover. I liked the idea of the tutorial about how to make a paper boat  representing the start of the book and the main character's brother on how he got into the plot.  The drawing I really liked in the museum was a drawing that a middle schooler made of a  pigeon looking down at the city which amazed me as it looked really good in my opinion. At the  workshop, we had to make sketches for any book cover so I made one that comes from a  game, b...

For this project of the color self portrait, it was easier and more simple since all I had to do was  select the elements in the different layers as I used the eyedropper tool to copy the color from  the original picture and color it. I was not going to over complicate myself and restart from  scratch just to have it in color instead of making it in a grey scale. I did not want to make my hair  black as it was boring, but in reality my hair is a dark brown so I tried to make it as accurate as  possible. I made the colors a bit darker due to the lighting in the picture, but at least it is  accurate enough to show the actual face and skin color as the lighting makes it brighter.  In conclusion, doing the color self portrait was way easier as the past project of the grey scale  Portrait saved me the trouble.

  For this project of the grey-scale self portrait, it was easy to turn it into a grey scale until we had  to use the pen tool to color every single grey on my face. I had difficulty in this assignment  since I am a perfectionist and I wanted to make it as accurate as possible as in the original  picture. It was challenging to do every corner and turn as I had to understand the layers so I  don’t have any white space in between the grey spots, but also the amount of detail I have to do  to my hair, though I skipped that part. What I could have done better is to make it more accurate  and get every corner and sharp edge right, but since it's not, I made it more simplified and not  as perfect as I wanted it to be. Due to the time management, I couldn’t make the improvements  as much as I wanted to as it lacks the details in my hair, but I knew it would be unnecessary and  too time consuming. Although the project of the self-portrait in gre...