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The idea for my digital painting was something that would bring the viewer a sense of calmness. The main subject is the black fox. This artwork did not admittedly have much of a meaning content wise it has a wolf atop a hill staring at a busy city under a starry moon lit sky as it begins to turn night. The colors are all on the darker muted side and I used mainly blues and greens with some soft yellows and whites in small areas as stated this was meant to invoke a calm feeling. The brush marks I made were all messy in a way it was meant to look as if it was done by someone completely relaxed and just going with the flow of things as they painted. I picked the subject I did as I feel like a majority of people associate nature and night with peacefulness alongside the fact that the fox is on a hill far from the city therefore away from the chaos it is completely at peace as should be the viewer.
I had a hard time with this project for numerous reasons one of which being I had never used photoshop before nor am I a digital artist both of which made this assignment quite difficult alongside that I had the fox being extremely hard for me to draw as I mainly draw people not animals I also struggled with filling the space I felt like I had a lot of empty space throughout the painting when I was making it that I couldn’t figure out how to fill. I think I was successful in the entire sky area as it was one of the areas I felt came together quite easily for me. I also found the coloring and shading to be challenging yet successful as I am quite proud of how it turned out. All in all this was a hard project but one I felt helped me improve my skills in extreme ways.
The theme I chose for my project was Nostalgia. The clock in my image was meant to show the passage of time alongside the lilacs which in some cultures are said to represent nostalgia and memories they go from alive to wilted. The images in the backdrop are all somewhat childish showing toys and books as nostalgia is typically in the form of longing for one's childhood. The two photos are also because photos are typically used to remember things following back into the theme of memories. The animation is somewhat simple and doesn’t have a whole lot of enhancement in the meaning but the movement of the clock is used to once again show that time is moving. Alongside the images all slowly fading in as if they are slowly being remembered one by one and at times fading out to show that memories are fleeting at times.
I admittedly didn't do too much with the animation bit. All I did was very simple tweening which given there’s a button to do that with isn’t all that impressive but the few motions I did which while taking longer are definitely the things I’m most proud of particularly the clock. The motions weren’t hard by any means but very time consuming hence why I only ended up doing three. The clock was as you would expect. I duplicated the layer multiple times slowly moving it until It did a full 360 which is very simple like I said but I am mainly proud of it given it was a very last minute thing so how it turned out made me extremely proud cause of how smooth it was.
I think I did pretty well on a few things. For one I believe the images I picked for the photomontage all served their purpose pretty well and secondly I am extremely proud of how the animation turned out. If I were to do this project again I would take some time to fully plan the animations I planned to do while I believe it turned out well it was a very hard process given I had no plan and to add to that I would also take longer organize my images in the photomage while I think it still looks fine I believe there was a lot more I could’ve done.
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