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Week 14

Some of the things that I had to change were all basically in the composition part of things. For instants I had to swap high hoop and vanished because the article title for the following article looked to much like the vanished illustration. Also I flipped high hoop and it gives it a different view point. I originally had 25 pages and we needed to have a multiple of 4, for the number of pages. So I Zach's article one page, since his was the longest. I the the text of equally throughout the pages and the slaptoure page got two illustrations.

Then the reds weren't matching in my Just Hangin atricle so I had to change that. I also straighten up all text so the lines are all the same length. For my cover I had to change it I had to put the title on the right side of the page, since thats were it will be opened. Also I made it page bleed that has color so there wont be white trim around the pages. I didn't have much to fix because I've been working a tweaking this magazine for the last two and a half weeks.

Week 13

first I fixed up my book, I had 25 pages so I had to reduce it to 24 so I did that, next I had to make a cover.

Concept: I choose that title electrifying, because I believe Zach's and Erica's art is just that, it exciting. Also me not being to artistic I feel I've been electrifying on my art work this semester. the prefect illustration for that would be the thunder one.

Craft: I placed my illustration on the cover. but I left room on the side to put my title. Then I went into illustration and took out the rim and the shoes and just left the back ground to show the lighting and I put that on the back cover.

Composition: I put the title on the side because you see this style throughout the book. I put only the lightening on the back to bring out the title even more.

Week 12

Craft: This week I made two articles using Zach's and Erica's art. Also I made an index on page one that has the title of all the articles and what page they can be found on. Also I small peek of the art of each article. In Zach's article I put all the illustration on the page after the title and throughout the article I picked my favorites and but them on different pages. In Erica's article I put one illustration on each page.

Composition: I put an illustration of each article in the Index just to show the reader a sneak peek of what's ahead. With Erica's article on each page there is one illustration, because with her art I feel it needs to be a good size to really see it. In Zach's article I put all twenty of his illustrations on the page following the title. I did this so you can see how many deferent illustration can be made with his style. Then on the next pages I made my favorite ones bigger and I added text where I thought would fit well.

Concept: To make and magazine that can be easily navigated through. But also that is fun to look at. I'm really trying to make it about the art rather than the text.

Week 11

Craft: For the cover page I took the pair of chucks and put them below the title, to make it look as if they were hanging from the letters. I placed each illustration in the pages. I placed each one in it's own page. Then I placed the text where I thought it looked best.

Composition: I put the shoes by the letters to make it look like their hanging. After the title page I put the photo that I took and the original picture to compare them. Then I put my favorite spin off of the original with a purple o match the illustration. With the next two the made them as big as the page and I put the text on the illustration, because there was negative space to put the text on top of it. With each illustration I put the title of my work.

Craft: This is an abandoned rim where no one plays on anymore, the only purpose it serves is for the shoes to hang.

New special edition

This is a painting by Gino Severini. When I first looked at the painting I thought about partying and going out having fun, after reading the Title Festival Montmartre, I thought wow he really did a good job with the colors and the busyness of the painting, to make you feel like it's a party or festival. The reason I like this painting is because who doesn't like to have fun with friends, like at a party or festival.

Craft: He used oil paints on a canvas.

Composition: He made the background black, so your eye automatically focus on the commotion in the center. He uses bright colors and dark colors, but the bright color over power the painting. It's hard to make out what exactly it is, but it gives you a fun and exciting feel, like a festival would.

Concept: It's supposed to give you the feel of the night life, people walking around, the busyness, having a good time.

old special edition

This painting was mad by Miendert Hobbema.I enjoy this painting very much, I like it because, living in the city your whole life can get a little hectic. Don't get me wrong I love the city, but sometimes it's nice to get away. This painting does exactly that. My friend has a cottage in Wisconsin right on the water, which we go to a lot during the summer. This painting reminded me of that. The painting expresses how nature is relaxing.

Craft: Since I'm not to familiar with painting I'm not to sure how he exactly did it. I can for sure say he used oil paints on a canvas. Trying to record this landscape on the canvas.

Composition: Well the watermill isn't the biggest object in the painting, but it's what catches your eye first, because the the red that is applied to the roof. Next you see this beautiful, but dramatic tree, which is the biggest object of the painting. On the bottom half of the painting is the water that runs the mill.

Concept: This mill was one of his favorite subject during the 1660's. Since he liked this area so much I think it's because the landscape is so gorgeous, but then also you see this man made building in the middle of the landscape.

Special Edition Shoes

Craft: When I was tweaking it, I smoothed out the circular shapes. Like the rim and the lace holes, I also used the gradients tool on the backboard, also on the lace holes to make it look shinier. As the professor suggested I added some clouds to the background to give it a background, not only a gray color. I used the feather tool on the clouds so they can fade into the gray. I like how that turned out.

Composition: When I used the gradient tool on the backboard, I made it lighter on the bottom, because the light from the camera hit the bottom of the backboard. I place a couple of clouds throughout the picture to show that that is all sky behind the hoop.

Craft: Its shoes in a basketball rim. Which is trying to say abandonment, which people haven't been playing on this playground.


Vanished: With this illustration I just filled in everything with white and I gave it a thick Charcoal stroke. To make it look like a sketching. Lastly I filled in the background black. I choose only the two colors to give it that plan and sketch look to it. I call it Vanished.

Thunder: This being my favorite reproduction, I changed the background to a purple. Than I used the pen to make the thunder bolts. To give it more light I used the gradient on the purple background mixing it with a white. So the white part of the gradient is right in the middle of the thunder. I changed the backboard, because the thunder would reflect off the metal board. I believe this illustration made my concept stronger, because this hoop and shoes don't look old and rusty to give it that abandonment. So the thunder does because it will keep the kids off the court. I call this one Thunder!

High Hoops: With this one I changed the composition the most. I just wanted to make it fun and colorful. I didn't use a specific color scheme. I just used bright colors. When it came to the shoes I wanted to make them the same but different at the same time, so I just did everything opposite of the other shoes. For example the sole of the bottom shoe is orange so for the top shoe I made it orange. I call this one High Hoops

Week 10

Craft: First I have to change the back rounds to be the same. But I think most of my changes will come in the composition.

Composition: I want to change the format of my title and the season names by each illustration. Then make more negative space on the second page. Also on the third page the illustration have to be a little smaller.

Concept: It will stay the same.

Week 9

Craft: First I placed all my illustrations on the page. After this I started arranging the illustrations. On the first page I put the illustration that intertwines the others. Then I put the title above that, and the quote on the side of the first page. On the second page I put the fall and spring illustrations together and in between that is were I started my text. On the third page I put winter and summer together with no text. On the final page I put the rest of the text. Next to each illustration I put the name of the season.

Composition: I put the illustration with all the seasons on the first page to give an idea what this article will be about. Then I put spring and fall on the same page because they are opposite each other. I did the same with winter and summer. I put the name of the seasons at about eighty degrees on the side of each illustration. To give it repetition. On each page I put a very light blue as the back round, like the color of the sky on a cloudless day.

Concept: No matter what it looks like outside, we as humans have to go about our day. We must get ready and go to school or maybe work. We live life as a routine day in and day out. Maybe once in a while we'll go out of our norm.

Week 8

Craft:

The first decision I had to make was what object I want to illustrate. I found an iron in the classroom. So now I had to illustrate it, with a style that appealed to me. I found a nice brush stroke, dry brush 7, which gave it a waxy look, hence the name of my style waxy. So I used lines to replicate the iron in different positions. I illustrated three that had similar colors as the actual colors. Then the next two I changed up the colors, I just picked random colors, not having a meaning to the colors. I wasn’t too happy with the work.

After our class critique the professor Peck suggested that we put our objects in space. So I drew an outline of an ironing board using the dry brush and then I used the pen tool to fill in those outlines made with the dry brush stroke. The rest of the page was white so I wanted to make it look as if it were in a room. So I added a window to the illustration and the rest of the page was a wall. The window is an older window that has wooden dividers; also I used the transparency tool, to make it look like glass. For the dividers I used the same brush stroke. On the side of the window I added curtains, using dry brush and filling it in with the pen tool. Outside the window I made it obvious what season it was.

For each scene outside the window I used the dry brush and if there was a lot of space I filled it in with the pen tool, with a color that has low contrast to the stroke. On my fifth illustration I used the same style the dry brush and the pen fill in where ever I thought it look good. Each picture is very similar, but also very different. But they all had the same rules. Dry brush 7 and the pen tool filling it in with a low contrast color. The colors of the iron inside the home are supposed to make you feel how it is outside. For the iron and the scenes outside the used the seasons colors.

Composition:

I put the iron on the ironing board, but I only illustrated a part of the board. So I can so that it’s in a room in some home. Not just on an iron on a board who knows where. So I add a window and also adding a wall. In two illustrations you can see mostly only the window and barely a wall. But in the other two half is the window and the other half is a wall. In these two illustrations I added a blazer that is hanging on a hook. Showing that some one is getting reading to go somewhere. Through the window you can see that it is a different season.

In the winter I illustrated a tree that is leafless and snow that has collecting on the branches, indicating that its winter. In the spring there is flowers on the window ceil and the tree fairly green, with a sun peeking through the clouds. During the summer the tree is nice and green and a full sun behind the tree. For the fall the leaves of the tree are brown and orange, showing the fall season. The ironer’s colors replicate the colors of that season. I was consistent with the tree to show that it’s in the same room.

Since the project couldn’t be less then five illustrations I had to think of something that flowed with my seasons theme and had to be done with my rules. So I intertwined all four illustrations. So I did a close up of the window, in the four sections of the window, which are made by the dividers, I made something to emphases the season of the year. Like a snowman, dead leafs, a sun with sunglasses and flowers. Also I place the iron in the middle of the illustration to put all four together into one.

Concept:

This picture is supposed to show the wonders of each season, but also as an adult no matter what season, how much snow, rain, or sun there is they have to get up for work and do the same routine almost everyday get up for work eat, wash yourself, iron your clothes and go to work. Come home eat watch TV, maybe read a book nothing too different from previous days, and do it all again tomorrow.

week 7

Craft: First I needed an object or objects, so I choose a iron. My rules were to use lines, using the dry brush 7 tool. This brush stroke gives it a waxy look to it. Also I used the same object for every illustration. But I positioned them in different ways. With these three illustration I used similar colors to the actual iron, but I did change the colors in the other two illustrations. My stroke thickness was at times a three but in other times a two. In every illustration I started from the bottom up.

Composition: I arrange my illustrations the way I did, because I wanted to make it look some what like an iron. I worked bottom up so some of the colors can over lap each other.

concept: To be honest I don't have a concept I needed something to illustrate, so I looked around the room and I found an iron. But with the new version of our style illustration I was able to add things to the illustration, which gave me a concept, but in order to understand the concept one must see the updated versions.

Week 6

With this illustration I just filled in everything with white and I gave it a thick Charcoal stroke. To make it look like a sketching. Lastly I filled in the background black. I choose only the two colors to give it that plan and sketch look to it. I call it Vanished.

This being my favorite reproduction. I Changed the background to a purple. Than I used the pen to make the thunder bolts. To give it more light I used the gradient on the purple background mixing it with a white. So the white part of the gradient is right in the middle of the thunder. I changed the backboard, because the thunder would reflect off the metal board. I believe this illustration made my concept stronger, because this hoop and shoes don't look old and rusty to give it that abandonment. So the thunder does because it will keep the kids off the court. I call this one Thunder!

With this one I changed the composition the most. I just wanted to make it fun and colorful. I didn't used a specific color scheme. I just used bright colors. When it came to the shoes I wanted to make them the same but different at the same time. So I just did everything opposite of the other shoes. For example the sole of the bottom shoe is orange so for the top shoe I made it orange. I call this one High Hoops

Week 5

Craft: When I was tweaking it, I smoothed out the circular shapes. Like the rim and the lace holes. I also used the gradients tool on the backboard. Also on the lace holes to make it look more shiny. As the professor suggested I added some clouds to the background to give it a background, not only a gray color. I used the feather tool on the clouds so they can fade into the gray. I like how that turned out.

composition: When I used the gradient tool on the backboard, I made it lighter on the bottom, because the light from the camera hit the bottom of the backboard. I place a couple of clouds throughout the picture to show that that is all sky behind the hoop.

Craft: Its shoes in a basketball rim. Which is trying to say abandonment, that people haven't been playing on this playground.

Week4

Craft: I worked from the back to the front. Doing the background first the sky than the backboard after that came the rim itself and the things that attach the rim to the backboard. Since the one shoe is in the net I did that shoe next and than came the toughest part. The chain net consisted of the most layers of the whole picture. I did each link of chain individually, which took a lot of time. Lastly I did the lower of the two shoes last. I traced everything with the pen and tried to use the same colors as the real picture. To do that I used the eye drop tool which worked pretty well. So I tried to make it as identical as I can to the real picture.

Composition: When I took the picture I put one shoe hanging in the net and one out of the net, so it can just freely hang there. I took the picture from that angle so I can just get the basketball hoop and the gray sky.

Concept: That it's a abandoned playground, that kids don't play there like they used to. The gray colors I feel really give it that feel of abandonment.

Week 3

Craft: I drove to my favorite running trial. It's were I jog at least three time a week when it nice out. I like it because it's beautiful.

Composition: I put one shoe in front of the other to make it look as if someone was walking or jogging in them. When I took the picture I placed the camera directly behind the near shoe. I did this so you can see the trail go on for a while. I like how the shoes and the ice on the ground have a low contrast opposite to the wounded railing and the trees. I like the dullness of the picture to do the low saturation.

Concept: I'm saying that this trail hasn't been ran on for awhile. Do to no one wearing the shoes and also the ice and the leafless trees.

week 2

Craft: I put my sisters dog Poker in my high top chucks. It was kind of difficult to get her to stay, so I had to wave a treat in her face. After a couple of attempts I got a successful picture.

Composition: I used my black and white chucks because they matched her coat. I took the photo in snow because of the white on the dog and the shoes. I made sure that there wasn't any cars or building in the picture

Concept: The dog compliments the shoes very well. She naturally matches the shoes. She rocks them very well.

Craft: I took my old school Jordan's, which I play basketball in. Since they are basketball shoes, I wanted them in a basketball environment. So I went to the park were I used to play since I was nine years old.

Composition: I hung the shoes on the basketball rim, because I wanted them as close as possible to the rim. I took the picture from the side and into the sky. After taking so many pictures I decided that I liked the tree in the back round, nature never hurts.

Concept: I used to play in this park as a kid and not so much anymore. So by hanging up my shoes on the rim, I'm saying that I probably won't play there again. Like when a boxer hangs up his gloves.

Week 1

Name: Andy Zarycki

Major: Accounting

Hobby: Playing Sports

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