X-Ray Vision Project
This was a fun picture to create. The object that I added was a computer mouse, because I do a lot of playing games on my computer when I'm at home. The overlapping bones was a simple procedure to go through, it just took me a little while to realize what I had to do. The skeleton obviously is not holding its arms the way I am, but it's hard to work with a skeleton model held together with metal. However, I like the way my image turned out and I even inverted the color of the mouse to match the "x-ray" look of the bones.

I really enjoyed making this picture, as the colors came out quite nice through the use of the blending and overlapping layers. At first I began to think that it would be hard to put together but the tutorial really explained it well and I ended up with an image that I really liked. This image is of a dancer and consists of two layers, a background and the color layer, with the color layer obviously providing the color for the black and white image..

Cartoon Project
This is the cartoon project I made, featuring myself and one of my favorite characters from an anime I watch. The background, image of myself and the character, are all different photos. I wanted it to look like we're in a good mood, ready to go do something enthusiastically, however, I'm not very good at taking pictures so I look a little bit weird. I did enjoy trying to put this picture together and I messed up a lot but overall, it was a fun project and I'm looking forward to the next.

I thought that this photo was pretty funny. I had a little bit of a harder time creating this one and when I added the frog, you could tell where it started because of the coloration of it once I tried to make the tongue look combined. Other than that, the picture was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed making it.

This tutorial was quite a lot of fun to make, and even though the result might not have been the best angry pancake ever, I did really enjoy making it. It was a bit hard to make the pancake gap wider, as I'm not too skilled yet with the mouse, but I did enjoy adding the teeth and making the pancake look angry. Overall, my first picture turned out pretty nice for a first time with photoshop.

1. Before starting the creation of our book carvings, we made an outline for our design. My design is supposed to be the bottom half of a person's face with a tear running down it. This plan was really important to have so that you'd have a template to carve off of. Otherwise, it would be impossible for you to carve everything close to the page above it.
2. There were a ton of challenges when carving this book. First, you had to be really careful as to not impale yourself with the Xacto Knife, which I did end up poking myself with a few times. Secondly, if you cut through one page, you cut the page underneath it too, so if you weren't careful, you'd make cuts where cuts should not be. Thirdly, when cutting close to the spine, the cuts got really difficult because the book curved down to the spine where it was bound, leaving choppy cuts that I didn't like and was not able to fix fully.
3.I overcame these obstacles by going over the edges of the cut again once I had carved the layer out. This did help for some of the layers to make them look nice. My book design may or may not have any significance with anything in my book. I wouldn't know I didn't read the book. I wanted to portray a sad, yet, happy sort of picture. Even though it seems dreary in the background, the person is smiling (may be hard to tell) leaving it up to the viewer to decide if the tear is of happiness or sorrow.
4. I did take risks by having layers that were 40 pages thick. This proved to be VERY annoying and it made it difficult to make a beautiful cut, and when finishing the layer, some pages were a bit off, though I remedied it by cutting it again. I also made a lot of long cuts in the beginning which led to very bad cuts, so I started making my cuts shorter.
5. I did not like this project at all. Maybe it was because I picked too many pages to go into a layer or maybe it's because I poked myself with the knife or maybe it's something else entirely. I did not like the cutting of the book and was very happy when I cut the last layer of the piece. However, even though I did not enjoy the creation of this artwork, I did like how it came out. The shirt looks silky and the color I was able to blend for the skin came out nicely. The cuts look better than they did originally and overall, it looks nice.

Mixed Media
1. My idea was to make a scene depicting imagination. I think imagination fits into amusement because if you use your imagination, then you can create anything. The imagination is shown with the colorful thought bubble that takes up most of the piece. To create variety, I colored the remaining space gray, to symbolize the dullness that the real world can sometimes be. This helped to show the opposite of creativity and to emphasize the fun that comes with imagining.
2. The two media I chose to create this piece of artwork were water colors and oil pastel. In the beginning, I thought that the oil pastel would repel the water colors making it so that the colors would not overlap the pastel that I put down like acrylic paint would. And they did, to a point. If I accidentally went over the lines, then the pastel would prevent the water colors from setting and I could wipe them off without harm. Though in a couple areas, the water color did end up overlapping the pastel making some of the pastels look darker while I was able to fix others. Despite all this, some of the water colors came out looking almost silky, which I really liked and decided to keep.
3. To be honest, when we did the visual journals, I did not really enjoy it that much, seeing as it was a bit messy and you weren't always guaranteed that the tissue paper would look the same way it originally did when you finished. The only thing I really took from it that I applied in this work was the layering, and what you applied first. I used the oil pastels before I used the water color which did the pastels stand put more than if I put the pastels over the water colors.
4. There were a couple challenges I faced. One, when I was applying the different water colors, the white pastel did not seem to repel the water colors the way the other colors did, and in some areas, it completely gave way to the paint. In the end, I had to go over the paint again with the pastels. I did the same thing in the areas that the water colors went over the colored pastels. When painting the gray parts, the gray did not seem to act like water colors and completely covered the E in the Imagine on the side. Due to this, I had to redraw the E in a darker color.