Naisha Lalwani FMX210 Digital Media

 Sketches: Final Product: 1) 2) 3)  Artist Statement: For my business cards, I used the colours of my three different logo variations as my colour scheme. I played around with a lot of different layouts but I chose these three. I took different ideas from my sketches to create these because I did not like how they turned out and merged them into what the final business cards looked like. I mainly centered the logos for each front page and used the back for all the information. I chose a handwritten font to pair with my logo so that it had a fancy feel. I used glyphs to create the tiny icons of a phone, house, and email, which helped me omit the words "Contact Information" and make my cards look professional. I think my favourite front cover layout is the first one and my favourite back design layout is the last one.

 Fromt of Postcard: Back of Postcard: Artist Statement: I chose to do my postcard about Dubai as it is a well-known tourist attraction and somewhere I have lived before, which is why it relates strongly to me. I chose the famous Burj Khalifa, which is used to represent Dubai as my postcard front picture. I wanted my postcard to have a sense of elegance as Dubai is portrayed as a rich and lavish place to go for a vacation or to live in. I chose a cursive font, played around with the text effects, and landed on the metallic-looking style, where I used a gradient on the text to make it look fancy. For the back I wrote the country Dubai is in; United Arab Emirates, in that same font, and similar fancy effect and added a camel image under Dubai and the whole of the Middle East is known for its desert and being able to ride camels. Lastly, I formatted the postcard in a simple way with my tagbrush as the stamp.

 The first video I liked the creative design that was taught as it will be relevant to class and the creation of business cards. I like how he played around with different formats, and the one thing that stood out to me while he was explaining was the way he tried to put the image inside the text. Learning how to do layouts like this will be helpful, especially with the way the images are placed and how the colors match the overall theme. I like the professional look of the black and white with the pictures placed artfully. The column tool is very helpful in this tutorial. The pop of yellow showing up from the black and white is very eye catching and a good design idea. In this video, the layout ideas given using full page photos with text as well as the formatting of headings, body text and pictures in general were really clean. I like the way the guy uses the rectangle shapes to mimic a magazine and use it next to the body text.

Final Animation: Artist Statement: For this piece, I wanted to draw something from scratch, and I wanted to do something with animals. One of my favourite animals are cats so I tried my best to animate it. I drew 8 different cats in different positions while walking, using google for reference. I used the pen tool in illustrator to create my cat silhouettes and then dragged them into Photoshop. I actually didn't  use the tween tool, instead moving each one by hand to make it flow better and actually look like the cat is walking across the screen. Then, I took the grass stock photo and zoomed in on it. I added a filter on top of it to look more cartoony / more like art instead of real as the car is small and cartoony. For the tagbrush, I dragged my transparent PNG brush file into photoshop and made it fade away by messing around with the tween tool along with the opacity. For the credits I tried my best to make it look like rolling movie credits. I used the tween tool for this as we

Pose Picture: Scene Image: Final Image: For my somewhere project, I chose to use the Twilight movie as I found it amusing to add myself to the movie. I like the movie and the characters so I wanted to put myself between the two of them. I used the quick selection tool and made a mask layer to take myself out of my dorm room and place myself in their environment. I made a copy of both the characters the same way in order to layer myself between them. I messed with the exposure and saturation to make myself somewhat match the colour scheme.

I think it would be hard to photoshop myself into this picture because the tree blanket thing is a hard fabric to replicate and put my face in the crack of it. It seems challenging and requires the clone stamp tool as well as the layers task that we did last time. This picture gave me an idea to put myself somewhere that can be edited to look real due to lighting and messing around with colours. This made me laugh because it was a creative way to make the girl look the other direction without editing the person itself, instead adding a mirror to show the reflection of the other girl is quite skillful to edit and really cool. I think this would be cool to recreate because it is fun to create landscapes in my own studio without going anywhere using everyday tools and good lighting to look realistic.