Pixel Portrait

Wilson Joseph Pixel Portrait GIF

Wilson Joseph Pixel Portrait PNG

Format-Comparison


I don't notice a difference when enlarging and comparing the GIF and PNG image formats. The only difference that I learned about them is that PNG can carry many, many more combinations of colours than GIF, and therefore frequently has to encode the information into a slightly less compressed format.



Features

When making this image, I was trying to emphasize the curving of my hair. I did this by making boomerang type lines, where the lines are thicker in the middle and fade out on either end. I was trying to make myself look formal and proper, so I darkened or lightened lines that head in the same direction to make it seem orderly. Another addition to formality was my use of grayer colours, such as bronze, light-silver/beige, and dirty-blue. I recently learned that gray is a neutral colour, and thought that it would be a good fit for coming across as solemn.


Procedure

I made this through Photoshop CS5, as a 100x150 px image with RGB colour and 72 dpi. I first took a reference image, shrunk it, and put it on the bottom layer, then I put an adjustment layer over it to lower the opacity of the reference to be able to differentiate between the original and the new. Then I had another copy of the reference of to the side in order to copy the original colours. The rest was making new layers for different parts of the image, putting down main colours, and shading what needs to be shaded.

Chinese WaterColour Painting

Flower & Bird Painting

Flower & Bird painting reference

 Flower and Bird painting style was introduced in the Tang Dynasty around the 9th century. They frequently include branches, flowers, birds, fish, insects, cats, and really focus on natural scenes. The brushes used to make these paintings are similar to the brushes used for calligraphy, as they both have a fine tip and a broad back for brushes. Additionally, empty space is often used in these paintings to create balance, and many curved or faded lines are used for plant life. The background of the art is traditionally a steel-brown colour by virtue of the style over-using the colour.










Four Seasons Painting

Four Seasons painting reference

The four seasons paintings, sometimes called "four gentlemen" are represented by four plants: Plum Blossom for winter, orchid for spring, bamboo for summer and chrysanthemum for autumn. Each plant combined with their season represent another meaning. Many of these artworks instead use one type of plant and have it shown in all four seasons, or sometimes include underlying colours that are widely used in each season.

Garden photos to grayscale/black and white/BW+1

Recently I've been discovering PhotoShop (CS6) further and more precisely, the grayscale conversion techniques. Each approach offers distinctive differences even though they all convert in to grayscale. Here's what I found:

 For this particular image, I used the red, green, and blue channels to pick one channel to use, then I edited it slightly more with the channel mixer adjusting the red green and blue source channels.
I suspect that this photo looks second best of the three. It seems slightly too dark in the background to like very much. I realize now that it needs a green tone down for an ideal image.

This photo is definitely my least favourite of the bunch. I resulted in this by usage of the black and white button that gives you the channel mixer to adjust. However this channel mixer is different then the one mentioned previously. This channel mixer gives the user the option to adjust reds, yellows, greens, blues, cyans, and magentas!
Despite all these options, it still looks awful unless you're going for a garbage look. I dislike how the flower looks burned and crisp like it was baking at 5130 degrees.

Very ironically this is the photo I prefer although I used the grayscale converter located in image/mode. This choice gives you no say in what comes out the other end. After one presses the button then photoshop will poop out what ever. I admire the appearance because of the range of black and whites. The last two have been too light or too dark, this one is similar to a combination of the previous.

This is the black and white + one colour photo. The photo that is basically the best looking back and white/ grayscale combination with one other colour. I removed the black and white layer partly to get the flower's colour out, I also used a filter to get the yellow much brighter and vibrant. I believe this works well because the flower is to the side a bit thus it's not too boring in the middle. That is all.















Thus photoshop has many choices for grayscale and how you get it, use whatever feels best.

Realistic chess piece drawing

This drawing was created to capture realism, movement, rhythm, and contrast.

Compared to the realistic drawings that you can see any time on google images, this one is not too special. I do believe that people will understand that this is a chess piece especially with the chess board helping out there. However I do not think that people will understand that there is a sword under the piece because it's pretty arbatrarry.

The movement aspect of this drawing is created because the tilt on the chess piece that makes it seem that the piece is going to fall, or being lifted from the board. Since the chess piece is the vocal point on this image, the eye will move down/right following the sword and then see the cartoon holding up the realistic drawing and examine the other cartoons.

In the rhythm category, I believe it's lacking, because other than the alternating black and white rectangles, I can't see any pattern that relates to rhythm.

Contrast is something that I think is very well because I was drawing what I saw instead of what I think is there. The shading started with the chess piece then I used relatively the same area of shading for everything around it, then I put in the darkest darks I could get and worked my way downward. When I was taking the picture, I made sure to use enough lighting so it could be seen well, and not too much so that it wouldn't cause glare.

A Creative contest Technological Tee-shirt super shirt

I started out with approximately 8 designs having to chose one to put on a t-shirt. This design is good because it shows "LCI TECH" as the vocal point while some technology is perfecting the T. I believe that the person at the side is not necessary, but it does create more of a theme because it's controlling the cranium machine. I also added the person because I though it looked nice like that.

To get the final result, after I drew my design, I scanned it and placed it in adobe illustrator and outlined the drawing with the pen tool. After I started to put in colour I immediately knew that I was going to have a problem because AI would fill in the entire inside with colour instead of just the boarder. But I fixed that problem by erasing the inside part, then filling in the letters with colour.

I chose the colour green, because I thought that blue,yellow, and pink would be to chill for an upbeat machine like this. Green suits this logo because many futuristic looking technologies are represented in green.

The final verdict is a solid 7.78/10. The result became what I wanted it look like more or less, but I should have had sharper edges to keep more theme in the design. I find that the edges of the outline around the "LCI TECH" were super curvy and chill. However I do enjoy which font I used, the machine in the background, and all the wires attached to the monitor. I believe I've made my point...

Garden Photos

This photo, I took very prematurely seemed like one of the best in all of them. I cropped it so that the first leaf was close enough to the side so that it looks bigger and also so it looks like they're decreasing in size. I believe that is a good effect and makes the viewer look from left to right.

This one ere' has the flower in focus and the ground totally blurred out! One flaw is that the flower is in the middle, but it may resolve it's self because there are in focus flowers to the  left of the middle.

The image to the left here just seems to be so nice looking because everything is so in focus and green! These all may be a very personal preferences' but I like the way the shrubs are diagonal and not taking over the picture, but instead end before the bottom side.

I enjoy this image because the yellow REALLY STANDS OUT from the grass and that ugly messy mess in the back. It helps a lot that they're in focus because it gains to the emphasis. One flaw would be that one flower is getting cut off by the bottom side, it doesn't work too well.

Lastly, the  image you see here looks great because there is three layers of focus: The top with the one part at the top left (out of focus), the middle with the most part of the plant (in focus), and the bottom which needs to be out of focus to create the emphasis effect. One thing that doesn't help is the piece of garbage on the right, because it makes this picture look like a joke.

Honoré Daumier - third class carriage

Third class carriage was created by Honoré Daumier, sometime between the years 1862-1864.

I feel that this image that was charcoaled up has imitationalism because first of all, it represents people. The focus of the painting/fake one is definitely with the peoples faces and their possessions with them. All of that put together creates a little bit of sadness with some pride because their faces don't have a sad look on them. It shows that they are not sad to be poor, but yet looking at the benefits of their lives.

This image has a lack of formalism. Without being copied from another copy of the artwork, it still has some spots where the dark spots are lined up with the lightest of the bunch! This portrays the visual

representation of many pieces of paper making up the final result, and as a result doesn't give of the emotions that the real one does because it looks like a joke.

Lastly, the emotionalism is high with this image when you know what you're looking at. When you can see the people on that train, it looks slightly sad and lonely with a hint of pride with some of the people. You can probably tell that these people are not rich and maybe in fact poor, (When judging from the title it's obvious though.) but they still seem to be relatively happy or neutral instead of being sad and out of luck. Of course when looking at the charcoaled one, just like before it seems like a joke because of the distortions.