Alex Johnson Marking Period 2

For Quarter two, I wanted to try and do something new at least every two weeks. Since I like to do a lot of abstract art using photoshop, I made a few things testing out some new brushes and methods. For one of my art pieces, I used a new brush set that mimics the moon. I used this along with a layer of stars for a poster size image of the moon and stars. I further used my other artwork to make new stuff. I had a lot of fun this quarter because I took a lot of peoples' ideas and suggestions to help make my art masterpieces.

For my most important piece, the Silent Wolf, I got the idea to draw a wolf for my friend. I was sketching and retouching my first drafts until I got my rough pencil sketch. Then I carefully traced it with a sharpie. After erasing the pencil from under the sharpie for cleaner lines, I took a picture of it and added color in photoshop. After I did that, I decided to add a moon and stars to the background. To make it easier to work with, I made the moon and stars in a separate poster shaped canvas in Photoshop. After finishing that, I copied the wolf with color onto the moon and stars. Since Christmas was coming up, I wanted to surprise my friend with it by adding in his name. I added some after-effects to the text and cleaned up some edges to finish.

The other main portion of my art time was devoted to an intricate youtube layout. It took a lot of work to make this. First, I had to do a bit of research to figure out the dimensions I would need to make it. Then I had to make the difficult guide lines for the boxes. Instead, after many futile attempts, I got the guide lines from another layout. I then began to add the stuff my friend wanted. After a lot of tweaking with the dimensions, and a lot of time later (10+ hours) I finally had the image perfect. Credit to one of my friends for helping with this too.

The rest of the artwork is just stuff I worked on during this marking period. The wolves are in order of process. Pencil -> Sharpie -> Final Silent Wolf. Then the Moon poster and the manifest of both joined.