Digital Art I

Space Place Project

Animated Gif

Text Project

My text project is based on the show Miraculous Ladybug. I used the quote "You and me against the world" from the show and added my own twist to it. Currently in season 4, Cat Noir is losing trust in Ladybug due to some of her actions that are causing him to question his allegiance to her. To show this through the text, I used the original quote from the earlier seasons and changed the words the world to the words each other. I think they are going to fight at some point and this is my visual text representation of that moment. This project was a big risk for me since I had never attempted to animate in Illustrator before. I wanted to give the feeling that the words were glitching in and out and I had no idea how I would even begin to achieve this. Visually I went with very bold colors and I felt like this would get the point across better. I also made the animation longer adding in more complex movements and text fading in and out. I feel like I could've added even more if I understood Illustrator better but I'm still really happy with the final project. I feel like it would go really well with creepy music and I did try to add it but it was a little too scary for me. Overall I feel like this project went really well!

Appropriation Project

In my Appropriation series, I took three paintings by Degas and put myself into them. I combined the three images into a comic page format and applied a gradient over top of it. I think it looks really nice and it did take me a while to get rid of all the purple glow that was coming through my photos. I made an effort to make them blend into the paintings and spent a while getting the colors to blend and look believable. I took the risk of actually using art and painting in photoshop, which I am not used to. I found it to be really fun and similar to the programs I use. Overall, I feel good about how this piece turned out.

Sound Projects

Video project 1: This piece is created to go along with my sound project 1. It is structured around lightbulbs and action figures. The light bulb flashes in and out with different colors, then later I have different lighting techniques and effects on action figures and even my own face. I found that this particular video is a tad more on the creepy side. I took so much footage and not a lot of it ended up in the final project. But this is how it turned out in the end. Something that makes you think about what you are seeing and wonder why you could be witnessing it.

Video Project 2: This piece is an ethereal abstract video created with water and food coloring. I sang the vocals myself and put an effect on them to create a distant feeling. This video is made purely to draw the viewers eye to the colors and also help them relax. I added splashing effects and even a distorted microphone sound at the very end, which ended up benefitting the piece.

Identity Project

The concept of my project is, that I am not quite sure what my future looks like yet. I don’t know what job I really want, I don’t know who I’m gonna marry, so many uncertainties. My drawing symbolizes the inevitable fall towards my future that will come no matter if I know what it is or not. The first box is childhood memories, the second is a bit more faded and it is current things, the last one is a void.