Painting

          The strongest technical aspect I find is the ground. The believe the ground is really good and the strongest looking. I put a lot of detail into it. The angles on the main turret are also a strong point too and gives depth to the Leopard 2A5. I think the background trees could be improved on. I didn't really know what to do because the trees were faded and blurry. So I just made some simple put there colors.
          The easy part as also the background because I just painted the back quickly. The tanks and the ground had much more work put into them. The real picture was really faded together with a blue tone. The most difficult part was getting the tank to work and use all its values. Eve though I put more detail into the ground, the tank took multiple tries to make it work. I had to redo the barrel and around the edges to make more detail and less light gray ghost fade around the tank. Than make the turret pop out more and not seem so flat.
          I demonstrated the object by making a semi-realistic painting of 3 Leopard 2A5s. I used many brushes but most of the detail is from the Medium oil brush. I enjoyed this out of all the projects, I found this really fun. If I could do this again, I might do a person. People are harder to get ride than shapes. Humans are more complex than tanks and if you don't paint it right, they look like a alien. If I would do this painting again, I'll cans the colors of the tank, maybe to a desert tone in an urban setting.

Pop Art Activity

          The strongest technical aspect of this is the colors. I believe the colors look well with the shading. The gray background brings out the red in his collar and the blue in his eyes.
I know I could have improved on the threshold better. I was more focused on getting the image to the point I could start coloring in. The black is overwhelming all the spaces I could add colors to. Their was no room for filling in except his face and suit.
          The easy part of this activity was filling in the colors. That wasn't so bad make a duplicate and changing the color and layer order. The difficult part was getting to the point when you can color. Their is a lot of steps to get to the final product and I believe that took away my focus. Their probably is a better way to get to the same point without having the four phases.
          In this activity I used Bradley Cooper as my famous celebrity. I didn't really know who to chose but when I saw him, American Sniper came to mind and other movies like the Hangover and Limitless.  I enjoyed all these movies with him in it, I think he is a good actor. If I could do this again, I would definitely try again with the threshold. I tried to fix it but it just keep reverting back to the same image. I would maybe find a more simple image of him to work with next time too.      

Animorph

          The strongest aspect in this work is how I did the thorny devil lizard with the Shiba Inu. I enjoy modifying images like this. I find it extremely fun in making things crazy. The creature itself I put a lot of work into but not only adding the lizard but changing fur color and design and changing the hue when in different scenes. I think I can improve on blending the animal with the backgrounds better. It was a little hard to find the right scenery to fit the creature into. Since it is only half of an animal, I have to hide the bottom with something in the photo. I tried blurring the creatures edges in the scene so it seems semi believable and relax the cut out.
          I found this art activity fun and easy. Like I said, this is my favorite thing to do. The difficult part was a background. I added him to Tokyo because he reminded me of Godzilla. I would believe this creature would belong an arid environment like Arizona. I couldn't find an appropriate scene for him so I made do.
          I demonstrated the objective by combining a mammal and a reptile. I used my favorite type of dog and some random cool animal. (Found the name later on.) I added him to two environments and showed a before and after of the dog. This will show the work put into him. If I would to do this again, I would maybe do a sea creature or bug. I was planning on doing those first but I didn't know what to do for a second creature.  

Shapes Art Activity

           I believe the strongest technical aspect of this work is the how the shades of green are surrounded by the blues and purples. I believe it attracts you and the more you look, the more shapes your will see. The transparencies make different shades if green and purple, and sometimes an orange. I think I could work on moving the circle counterparts better. I found it hard to incorporate some circles with the squares. Also maybe the symmetry and proportions of the squares.
          The easy part if this art activity was just placing the squares and making the overlap nicely. With the tools provided by photoshop, it's easy to line up the shapes and make it even. I found the difficult part was making all the colors work. I went with Jens and I's favorite color combination, Lime\Neon green with vibrant shads of blues and purples. Adding orange or red through off the whole image but the colors that make the shades, make the orange work. Also found it difficult to add circles to my already dominated square image. The ovals left the black spaces but it's still proportionate.
          I demonstrated the objective in this art activity by mostly using squares with fill in ovals and circles. I made the in inner part more bright than the edges. I think these colors contrast good together  and when adding red, it messed up the feel. If I could do this activity again, I would try using more circles and warmer colors. This was a fun put together picture.

MEU Polaroid Project

     The strongest technical aspect of this art piece is how the white spaces of the pictures feel like an object is displaced. I like how I did the blades on the images, the polaroid kinda of fades into the blade. I feel like I can improve on the background but I wanted to do more of a tribute to the Marines in the photo.  Not many people know about Marine Expeditionary Units (MEUs) but I didn't know want else to do in the background. It might if look better if the background was lighter or matched like the purple you did in your photo. 

     The easy part about this project was surprisingly making a part of the image come out of the photo. I thought is was going to be harder but I found the difficult part was making controlled chaos. I had no idea what to do in the background for this project. I added the two patterns of MARPAT but I like I should have blended them more creatively. The two other parts of the background I added patches and silhouettes and did the opposite color to contrast the pattern. 

     I demonstrated this art activity by popping out the nose, tail, mid section, and two rotors. I wanted to feel like it was more plopped down photos on a surface so the middle is white and I added a shadow outline so the images don't feel flat compared to the background. If I could do this again I would try to find an image that the background is more easier to work with than an open world and gives off more color. 

Tattoo Artist Project

     I think the strongest aspect of this work was the bigger tattoo on the upper arm. I actually wanted to change up the project a little than just doing a simple arm band. So I am actually kind of impressed on how I did the bigger tattoo. In a technical aspect, I think I could have focused on the main point of the work but I wanted to try something different. Maybe should have had a bigger arm band tribal tattoo but the arm in my eyes looked better with the main attention to the shoulder.
     The easy part of this activity was making the tattoo look more like a tattoo. As in it looks like its apart of the skin instead of a marker drawing. If you don't make it more transparent, it looks more fake that an actual tattoo. The more difficult part was making the tattoo look like it was on his skin. So darkening and lightening spots to look like it bends and gives a depth feel.
     I demonstrated the objective in two kinds of ways. I don't think it was wrong to do both tattoos even thought the main objective was just doing a wrapping tattoo. I felt like both are a nice touch. If I could do this activity again, I should focus more on the main wrapping tattoo. I would also try to do an image than a design, more like a sleeve.

Landscape Project

     I think the strongest technical aspect of this project was changing the road to the river. The fades from the road make the river have depth on the edges. The sides blend better to the surrounding forest. I think I could improve on the blending between the trees and the sky. The edges just look like they fade away, especially the farther back ones.
     The easy part of this art project for be was adding in the images. Finding the right images and make all the difference especially with the angles and the point of view. I hardest part was blending everything to make it work. I believe I should have picked a different picture because the tree were hard to work with in this image.
     I used just a basic forest and a road image. I changed the road to the a river and instead of having a blue shy, I made it look dramatic. If I could do this again, I would change the background. This image was blurry and made the trees hard to work with. The image makes the project harder or easier depending on what you choose. I think it didn't come out that bad but I worked with what I picked.

Personal Identity image

      I believe the strongest technical aspect of this is how the colors are incorporated into every picture. It really combines everything together. I think I can improve on the formation of the layers better. I think it still needs work with angles of the layers to make the dimensions better.
     I believe this whole activity was fun is easy. Since I have experience in photoshop, this should how much I can do. The only difficult part was just making the image work. I had to rearrange the layer a lot to give it a better feel. In the end it could be improved but I like it.
     I demonstrated everything I liked and had to add the realistic colors as a base and added a bunch of colors in it to make it blend. If I had to do this again, I would experiment with a different color background to test myself. Black is easy to make this stand out and its easy to look over.

Graphic design image

       I believe the strongest technical aspect of this work is the overlapping of the C's in different opacities.  Their are so many C's overlapping that it gives of different color hues and almost gives it a depth feel. I think I could improve on the spacing in this image. The layers aren't perfectly alined and equal. It doesn't give perfect radial symmetry.
       Coloring and copying the C's was the easy part if this art activity. It easy enough to move thing around. The hard part was making everything in the same spot perfectly on the page. It might look like it is but once you look at the end points, its not perfect. I delete believe that was hardest part.
     I demonstrated the activity by adding green C's to make a front than giving the C's depth. Your eyes travel around and you find more and more opacited C's. Next time, if I did it again, I would try harder on making sure everything is more even and equal.