// Assignment 9 // Pop Art #2 // Graphic Design

          My strongest technical aspect of this work was how it all came together by using more realistic colors. I realized that if I shut the view of the white layer and the background layer off, it would leave the original image still visible but with slightly muted colors left over so then I would use the eyedropper tool to pick up the actual colors and painted them in that way. I also used a very small sized pen tool so I could put in outlines of where the color should end and begin before adding in the color. I don't think that I could have improved on anything based on what I was trying to accomplish. I wanted colors to look natural and go along with the original photo.

          The easiest thing for me was deciding what photo I wanted to use and how I would make the colors appear. I wanted this one to seem more natural and real towards how the first version of the photo had looked. I knew I wanted to do a photo of them because all of their photos for their newest album's era has a prevalent use of the color red and I thought a slight pop of color would make this look really nice. I don't really think anything on this was that difficult because after doing the first one I realized how to se the tools really fast and I enjoyed doing that one so this wasn't all that difficult for me. At times it did take time to do certain parts because of the accurate lines I was trying to get on the hair, the lips, or even the beanie. 

          I demonstrated the objective of this project by using making copies of the original photo, deleting the background on one and adding in the black background, then I changed the image to greyscale and changed the threshold of the image so it looked as if it could be pop art. Then I created a duplicate of that layer and made it completely white so I could paint in all of the colors again. Then I painted in all of the colors so it would look the way it does now. If I had to do this project again I would most likely wind up having the image the way it is now because I had wanted this to look a certain way and I had accomplished that.  

          

// Assignment 8 // Pop Art #1 // Graphic Design

          

          My strongest technical aspect of this work was how I kept with the natural lines of the actual photo. I did that because not all of the natural end lines of the photo appeared in the edited version but I still wanted the colors to end where they actually would have on the actual photo. I did that by closing two of the layers over the background layer and making the paint tool very small so I could outline where each color would have naturally ended on that original photo. I don't really think I could have improved on anything, I think it turned out looking really nice. I think taking the extra time to really find the natural endings of each piece of the picture and I think that adds to the entire

photo.

          The easiest thing for me was deciding a color scheme for the photo. I wanted to stick with pastels because I thought it would all look as if it went best together. I made the lips a couple shades darker than how the shade I used for the skin. I then decided to leave both the eyes and the teeth white because I thought it would add to the look of the piece as a whole. For me the hardest part of this was using a picture that worked because the first photo I tried was to much of a profile view and the shirt the girl was wearing was a major contrast from the face and I either had the face fully disappear or the clothes would fully disappear. 

          I demonstrated the objective of this project by making separate copies of the original image and then deleting the background to one of those copies using the pen tool. Then I used solid fill layers on top of a white version of the original image and drew in where I wanted all of the colors to go. If I was to do this project again I would leave all of the colors the way they are because I think it goes well together. I would most likely add a darker shade of blue to the slight gaps within the black side of her hair.