PSA Reflection

* A PSA is a public service announcement, meaning a message that you want the public to know about or to keep in mind not to do. Like drinking and driving, underage drinking, texting and driving, animal abuse, etc. There is a lot of topics that you could do a public service announcement on.

* I learned that just with underage kids with that out of 100,000 Americans under the age of 21, 1.4 people were killed in drunk driving fatalities just in 2011. There were other statics about it too, but I have heard too many stories about underage kids driving that have been drinking, they shouldn't even be drinking in the first place.

* I love my final project! I think that it is the best project that I have done in digital art. It really took me awhile to figure out how to do things and to try not to get really mad at my lap top.

* The most difficult thing about my project was probably selecting the background and deleting it, I'm glad that I could just delete it and make it white and then inverse it. That made it a lot easier! Then maybe at the end I couldn't figure out why the text was going under the color box but then I moved the layer down and figured it out.

* I feel more confident about my digital art skills now then I was about half way through the trimester, to tell you the truth I hated photoshop, I just could not understand how to do things or remember how to do them. But finally today and a little bit before, things started to click and I could do things without getting mad. The biggest thing that I learned was to ask for help when you need it!

PSA Plan

My plan for the PSA project is to do something on underage drinking, saying the statics and a picture of high schoolers drinking, possibly driving, passed out, something that will make my point. I care about this topic because it is a big thing in high school, kids drinking and driving. It is something that is close to me because of my family. I want to say that it is a bad thing to do when you are young because you don't know a lot about it and it is dangerous and could mess up your whole life.

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol is an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. He is known as a controversial artist, he had a successful career as a commercial illustrator. He did many different forms of media, hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music. He was the founder of the Interview Magazine and was an author some of his books included, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, Popism: The Warhol Sixties. He is a very well known man, many interviews, books, documentaries. He has a museum that was made for him, it is in his home town Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is the biggest museum in the United States that was dedicated to a single artist.

Typography Blog Post

• What is your typography piece about? Why did you choose this subject?-- My typography piece is about duck poems and things of a duck like the feet and beak. I choose this subject because I love ducks and I really really want one!
• Did you choose specific words for your piece? Why did you choose the words you did? -- I really wanted to have poems about ducks just because right at first I didn't know what to do but then I thought about it and thought that I should have poems just because when you think of poems you don't usually write about ducks so I wanted something that most people wouldn't know and then my whole duck would be filled with duck poems!
• This is a tedious process, be honest! How are you feeling about typography now that your done? Hate it? Enjoying the final product? Was it worth your time?-- At first I didn't like it because it frustrated me a lot but then Tiffany helped me out a little bit and it started to come together better with me knowing what I was doing. It was actually really cool because it looks like a duck when you take away the picture and I thought that was pretty awesome.
• What might you try different next time?-- Different types of words in there, poems, songs, words that I think go with the topic and then a really cool picture to do it with! Also I would look over the end piece and make should I didn't leave any random letters anywhere like I did with this one.

Pencil Wordle

My wordle for the Pencil Bullets, it's in the shape of a school bus!

Two Favortie Portraits

I really like this portrait because this really fits Haley's personality because she LOVES donuts and she is hiding some of her faces from us so it is like she wants them but wants to hide that she wants them, which she does sometimes.

I like this one because I like the background of it and the lighting, also the fact that she is in black and white and then the fruit loop is in color. She looks happy and it portrays her personality as well.

Wordle

Picaso By Cory Smith