Post 7

For the vector project I decided to reference the movie Big Eyes, and the style of Archer because I like the look of stylized large eyes, and the emotion they can convey, along wit the contour of Archer. For this project I used the blob brush to trace, then fill and stroke to color it in. I was having extreme difficulty getting the program to create what I wanted.



I believe the typography project was more successful, because I was able to get more of the effect I was going for in it.

Post 6

Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants are interesting ways of phrasing who has been raised with the modern digital technology, as opposed to who has to re learn how to function in society. My generation, I would consider at the very beginning of digital native. There are technological things I do not understand or know how to work, but I know more than some adults I have met in my life. But this is the same for every generation, just not necessarily digital. Each era brings about new technology, and those raised with it will understand it better than those who have to learn it later in life. 

The digital divide can affect us learning now, when we teach students years into the future. Those students will be raised with more advanced technology than we initially learned how to use. It is important to keep up with technology so that we can better engage the students, with technology that excites and interests them. 
It is important that we keep up with the internet, and modern technology and that us as educators don't use technology strictly as a tool, but to learn more about our students, to better engage and interest them. 

I agree mostly with what was presented, but I also know how easy it is to get out dated by technology. Students will always know a little more than the teacher when it comes to modern technology, they know how to use It and abuse it. It will be difficult for the teachers to keep an eye on young kids when they are behind a screen, because they know the short keys to switch display, and how to make it look like they are doing what they are supposed to, when they aren't. Technology also makes it real easy to fake work, through editing sights, or to cheat in other ways. Depending on the audience, it could potentially do more harm then good. I feel it is still important to teach the basics before the modern stuff. For example, teach how to use a pencil before learning digital art, learn how to use the dark room, and light sensitive paper before digital cameras and photoshop, learn how to mix color before using premixed colored paint.

Using technology to teach these however, is a good way to engage the students, through powerpoint, or in some way interactive displays. Children typically enjoy hands on work, and it could help them learn faster, so using technology that way at first could be helpful, and later in their educational career it is important that they learn how to create digital art, just as much as how to create traditional art. I wish I had learned how to use the adobe suite earlier, and learned how to create digital art by middle school. 

As a teacher, I will be presenting the lesson though google slides, and I have been recommended to use google classroom for grading if it works with the district. I find google to be a great resource for educational needs. I will also attempt to find digital resources such as color mixers to demonstrate how the color wheel works before having them try it themselves with paint. 

Post 5

This lecture was a touch hard to follow, but I learned that you have to be aware of how you make art, and how you manipulate images, because it can affect the meaning, and the quality. He also talked about how the government will cover paintings and other objects to make a setting seem more formal, or to hide a specific fact for fear that it may corrupt the meaning behind the speech or event that is going on. I also learned to not tell students what a work is about, but to try and let them figure it out for themselves.

The role of art in visual culture is to aid in education, and monument events. As an art educator, we use these works to explain the culture, and discuss the importance behind how it was made, and why it was made. It is also to question ways of thinking, and we use it to show how the setting, culture and atmosphere can change the meaning or how a work is interpreted.

Students learn the basics on how to create, but don't necessarily learn why they are learning these techniques, such as perspective. This is something that needs to change, so students are inspired to learn on their own, and understand why they are being taught the lessons. They should also learn to think creatively, and not just create from what they are conditioned to see.

Post 4

I have used illustrator a little bit before. To make the graphic on the bottom of my longboard, and an in class tutorial and project in a media class I took in high school.

The most important fact I learned from each video is:

Video 1: You can use the app to create a work, and continue working on it with just about any adobe program.

Video 2: You can edit the dartboard when the document is open, changing the size of the document, or adding more.

Video 3: When working with multiple art boards at once, its is still just as easy to change the sizing of each individual board, and double clicking on the layers panel it will zoom into the art board.

Video 4: With only the given shape tools, you can draw virtually any shape imaginable, by adjusting the sides and corner radius.

Video 5: You can manipulate brushstrokes from preexisting artwork by changing the paths.

Video 6: You can change any color of any object to any or no color you want.

Video 7: You can easily shape text by placing it on a path, it will conform to that shape

Video 8: You can change the proportion, perspective or size of your selected object

Video 9: The control panel has the most important functions on the left, less important functions on the right.

Video 10: If your artwork is too big for one piece of paper, it will show you the different sheets with print tiling.

Video 11: View-> Outline, shows only the outline of every object in the art board. This can show the hidden panels to arrange them.

Post 3

Digital images are seen everywhere in daily life. On billboards, on social media, in the news. I personally mostly see it on billboards to and from school, at work advertising food and movies we are selling, and on social media in the form of memes.

In my personal life images provide a way of entertainment, and ease at my job, advertising food that people may want to purchase. Causing me to not have to suggest it.

For many people, me included, the memes I see on social media bring to light problems in society, and rarely highlight the positive. This creates a very negative portrayal of the world, despite its attempt to lighten it though cheesy jokes and dark humor.

As a student of photography, I have been introduced to photoshop as a way to digitally touch up my photos. One professor advised their class to edit every photo, and that each image should have a quality amount of time being processed, where as another advised to fix as much as possible before the initial photo is taken. I agree more with the second. Not only does it produce less work for the artist, but it also provides a more natural looking image. If an image is over processed it looks fake. In terms of people (and yes I fall for this as much as anyone) everyone want's to look their best. It effects mostly women, but vanity is a problem that is only strengthened by photoshop. Everyone wants supermodel bodies, when the bodies we see in digital imagery is heavily doctored and unrealistic to give the most aesthetically pleasing form. Manipulating a figure to be someone they are not is similar to makeup, and it can have its purposes, but it is not to be abused, and when it is used in propaganda and shown to young moldable minds, telling them this is the body to strive for, it can cause some serious health issues. I will use color enhancing tools, and the histogram adjustments to bring out more contrast in my images, but I tend to stay away from body or form manipulation if I can. Cleaning up skin blemishes is the most I will personally go.

Editing anything out of an image, or moving it around can defiantly cause the image to have a different impact on the viewers. bringing something to the font can draw more attention to it, and deleting something can make it seem like it was never there, like hiding a problem and pretending its not a problem at all.
The image I thought was the most interesting was the one where they were trying to warn readers about Hitler, and suggesting what he might look like with a disguise. It almost turned it into an art piece in and of itself, but I found it interesting because it manipulated a face as a warning, but not necessarily a negative warning, more of something to try and show readers what to be on the watch for.

Post 2

Photoshop

I am taking photography classes, and have used Photoshop before, though I do not know a whole lot about the program.

Video 1
The most important fact I learned is that I can have multiple windows in view at once, side by side. I can find this to be very useful in my photography editing.

Video 2
I'm not sure I watched the right video on the page for this, but the one I watched was just showing how to see and hide layers, by clicking the eye icon in the layers section..

Video 3
This video was a lot more useful to me, and it will take a while of practice before I fully remember everything, but I learned quick select is actually a good tool, and works best by not selecting what you do want, but selecting what you don't.


Training video 1 layer making

I selected this video because I like creatively mixing photos, and was curious to if layer masking could help with this, along with what layer masking actually is.

Depending on the extent of this project, I can combine my current portraits with other photos, or even with themselves.

Training video 2 how to make colors pop

I chose this video because in my photography, color is important, and can make almost any photo look so much better and interesting.
Using this process, I can bring out key features in the portraits.

Training video 3 creating neon effect

This video appealed to me because it reminded me of my friend and how he loves the Vaporwave aesthetic. I thought I could do something with this possibly in my project.