This was a final and I'd say the humor is in good taste. That's what worked well. What was challenging about this was managing the layers. I needed to find a way to keep all the text and layers separate, which was challenging, but I successfully organized them. Next time, I'm going to either get payed money to do this or pay a large sum of money in order to get a degree for graphic design. I used adobe illustrators text tools, along with a few custom fonts.

This project was about creating anything we wanted for a t-shirt design. A lot worked well this time around. I was able to make a neat emblem of one of my favorite masks from Bionicle, and it worked well because it pretty much looks exactly like it. You can just see the beauty in the figure standing up holding his arms up in a surge of vitality. The most challenging thing for me in this was the tracing of the eye slits. They were a bit difficult because I had used a bit map photo to trace around and squares are not an accurate representation of what something is composed of. Terrible system. Next time I would definitely not use a bitmap photo, those are the worst. I used adobe illustrator's trace tool and paint tool for this. I might actually try to make pen traces of other bionicle masks in the future, because they are pleasing to the eye and have a nice crispness to them.

Discrimination Matrix

This Project was about creating an example of the Doplin Discrimination Matrix, where we would rate 9 relevant objects based on their price and quality. Finding the pictures and fonts worked out well, the text you see above is the counter strike font because why not? Counter Strike is certainly related to valve and steam, did you steam was originally made for Counter Strike? Anyways, the most challenging part was the setting up of the photo's, because the whole process seemed overly complex, and it was. I would like to take more time to master it next time around.

This project revolved around creating an album/ concert cover for our favorite band. I'd say what worked well is not really existent with this project because a lot of the issues with creating this simple cover was a lot of work to try and fix. I want to say the turn out of the posters were ok, but not really worth the effort put forth into making them. I don't have a favorite band in the first place, so this project failed to speak to my artistic passions. The most challenging part was the Adobe Illustrator mocking me for not completely understanding it. Sometimes I will attempt to make the photo I created compatible with live paint and when it does not let me, I have no way of knowing why. It is infinitely frustrating but enough of me crying about it. I will certainly try to check the orientation of the layers that I am working with to ensue compatibility with live paint next time. I mostly just used the pen tool and a few band logos that are usually used within the album cover. I suppose I can use this to make album covers for bands in the future. Nope, couldn't type that with a straight face.

The project was about creating our dream paint job of a skateboard. Sorry, couldn't write that with a straight face. I wouldn't need to be asked to create my dreams if I was capable, but I could definitely provide some ok beginner paint jobs. Things that worked well on this project were not too plentiful but I did get a good grasp of how to make simple pieces of art that aren't a complete eyesore. The most challenging aspect of this project was the complexity and frustration that comes with adobe illustrator. Some features on there are difficult to figure out how to undo. For example, I have no gosh darned clue how to get rid of the perspective grid tool when I bring it up, and I tried the conventional method of clicking on another tool. Nope. One thing I am going to do differently next time is try harder to figure out how to use the less conventionally solved tools of the next particular software that we will be utilizing. This has taught me how to use particular aspects of the adobe illustrator program, which I hope to get a hold of in the future.

This project was about taking an image, either from real life, or from the internet. I thought the internet is way better than real life, so I took that option. I would say the project was a ton of fun to figure out and trace this godlike render of Noble 6 from Halo: Reach. I would say the attention to trace detail is what I had done the best, although it wasn't a spectacular polygon to polygon trace. The most challenging part for me was finding all of the different tools, as they were somewhat differently situated than the tutorials. Something I would do differently next time is try to make sure to keep up with the tutorials as they instruct me. This way I can take in the information easier. I used the pen tool this time around in order to trace an image, then I used the bucket to paint over the trace. This will certainly prepare me for painting and photoshop programs I see myself using a lot of in the future.

Yep.

This project was about creating a satirical version of a controversial magazine ad. I chose to poke fun at the Monsanto corporation(in spite of the risk of being sued, tee hee.) I would like to say that this project was really easy, but uh...
The parts of the project that worked well were the fonts, the ad I found, and the picture I found to poke fun at the advertisement. At first, I didn't want to find something that would make me seem like a hipster special snowflake who hate all the big corporations because they know how to make money. I just wanted to find something that made me sick.
In all honesty I despise large corporations who use unfair patents in order to obtain more ill gotten gains. I understand patents are to used to protect someone's idea, but needing permission to use a seed is unacceptable. Monsanto should be allowed to sell the seeds, but enforcing use of a license? Hmmmm...

I think I am starting to get the hang of this photoshopping business. I can really use this for all sorts of silly jokes for people to see. It is also a great way to express what I am passionate about. Combine what I am passionate about with comedy and we got some satire.

Unit Reflection:
Part 1: Inquiry Questions
1.) I would say that advertisement is always around you. Getting someone to buy a product is easy as seeing a meatball sub. Advertisement comes in bill boards, radios ads, TV ads, sports gatherings, and more. Also, something can be an advertisement in disguise, for example, a select few documentaries like The Lego Story and Free2Play, are really just informative extended advertisements. Check them out, you'll see what I mean.
2.) Images persuading people to act is not about the severity of what you are trying to express, but how subtle you slip the thought into their brains. If you can incept the idea of something being wrong without being too blatant about what is the exact issue you want solved, you can get people to do anything. It's worked for thousands of years, just look at the bible.
3.) I want the government to stay out of anything people can handle themselves. I am not saying that I want little regulation, quite the opposite, in fact. I think that there comes a time when people should settle things themselves, and a time when the government should step in and make sure everyone is considered/ cared for. For example, People should be able make whatever they want media wise, and if they have the money to advertise it, they can if they want to. I don't want us to enter an age of censorship and conformity where no one can say anything considered wrong or too wild. People like Madonna really pushed us away from that kind of nonsense with some of her music. Once again, I am not leaning on the extreme, I am not saying vulgarity is what we should engage in, but we can never repress our human nature, nor should we attempt it.