DMEA | Digital Arts Career | 9-7-18
What are careers available to digital artists?
-One career is a video game designer, they design and create videos games with coding of different challenges, survival, chatting, etc.
-Another one is an animator. Animators draws frame by frame animation projects that make money based on how well they do. Some schools use animations from animators for education.
How are the digital arts used today?
Teachers use digital arts to show videos that has animation in it to make things fun and interesting for the students. People around the world use digital arts for many things as well like watching a Pixar animated movie (ex: Toy Story) and some Disney movies (ex: Frozen, Moana). Kids who play video games are also using digital arts that have coding in them. Everyone around the world uses digital arts to watching an animated video or movie to playing a video game that is loads of fun.
DMEA | Digital Art Career | 9-17-18
What digital art career would you want and why?
-I would want to be a video game designer or an animator. For a video game designer I would design games of different genres like Butterfly effect games, horror, adventure, puzzle, etc. It would be fun to express my creativity in a video game. My other option is being an animator because I can use my love of drawing to make animations for gifts, projects, and I might be able to get into big companies like Disney, Pixar, or Dreamworks, I don’t know exactly of what I want to do but I know it will be in the digital art section.
DMEA | Visual Language | 9-19-18
What is visual language? Visual language is where one can communicate with visual elements such as drawing, painting, photos, etc.
What gives meaning to a work of art? How it is made and the feeling to it. The artist puts out what they feel and see around themselves to a canvas.
What are the building blocks of art? The elements of art are the basic building blocks of art.
How is a work organized? It is organized by the principles of design to combine the visual elements for their art.
What I see in the artwork The way it is colored like the person is a tree and the leaves are what is in the person’s brain and what they are thinking of. The texture makes it look realistic and the movement of the branches hold on to things and make it look more like a tree. It overall looks like a home with a garden and lake on top of a human’s head that looks like a tree.
DMEA | Intro to Photoshop | 9/21/18
What are computer and tablet screens made up of? The screens are made up of liquid crystal which has two pieces of polarized glass (or substrate)
What is the difference between a raster and vector? Raster graphics are composed of pixels while vector graphics are composed of paths
What is the difference between a jpeg, png, and psd format? Jpeg- used as a method of lossy compression for digital images Png- are high-quality file formats. Usage is for websites where pictures have a transparent background Psd- a layered image file used in Adobe PhotoShop. PhotoShop uses it for saving data and it allowed the user to work with the images’ individual layers.
What does lossless mean? Meaning relating to data compression without loss of information
Define a layer, smart object, and rester size as it pertains to photoshop Layer- you can stack the layers in any order you want, change the opacity, and you can see through the transparent areas Smart object- layers that contain image data from raster or vector images. Rastersize- converts a vector layer to pixels.
DMEA | Blending Mode | 10-3-18
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Low Poly Art (10/26/18)
What is low poly art?
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Contour Drawing (11/27/18)What is a contour drawing?
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Grey Lines with Black, Blue and Yellow (1923)- Abstract art
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Georgia O'Keekfe(12-3-18)What is Georgia O'Keefe most famous for painting? What other things did she paint
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Translation ^ReflectionRotationGlide Reflection |
Tessellations (1-3-19)What is a tessellation?
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Intro to Typography 1-9-19
What is typography?
Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed.
What should be considered when combining fonts?
Typography 1-9-19
Intro to Photography
Wide aperture ^Small aperture ^High shutter speed ^Low shutter speed ^ISO ^ |
What is exposure?
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Title Good Composition
Rule of Thirds ^Not Rule of Thirds ^ |
What is the rule of thirds?
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Through My Lens
Sepia ^Black and White ^^Emphasis ^^ |
Sepia- Sepia photos are normally used for old memories. When making a sepia image, you take a black and white image and add red-orange/brown color to it.
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