Book Cover Project
For our Book Cover Project, the objective was to create a book cover to accompany our Short Story Project. Check out my Humanities page to read my story!
Finished Product The world as you know it has ended. All that is left is loss and water. Only one thing can combat the darkness, but that lone savior is destruction within itself.
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Project ReflectionQ: What makes for an engaging book cover?
A: First and foremost, a book cover should catch the eye of your potential reader in order to be engaging. To do this, it shouldn't be tremendously cluttered, the lettering should be easy to read, and it should be clearly original. Also, it should leave a lasting impression that resonates with the genre and overall mood of the book, to give people an idea of what kind of story it is. Above all, an engaging book cover should be meticulously refined, thereby reflecting the hopefully high quality and effort put into the writing. Since the cover is the first part of the book a viewer sees, it needs to catch attention in these ways. Q: How and why is art used as a vehicle for communication? A: Art is used as a vehicle for communication by transcending language, age, genre, and culture barriers through visual representation. It leaves common representations of ideas and emotions with its viewers to ultimately serve as the "universal language." Also, art in the form of a book cover, as was the case in this project, communicates to people the mood of the writing. This is incredibly helpful in real-world experiences in attracting an audience who knows what they are in for and will choose their books accordingly, which will hopefully result in better reviews for the book. As better reviews generally induce prolonged success, art is tremendously helpful here. Q: To what extent does a work of art depend on the viewer's point of view? A: A work of art very largely depends on the viewer's point of view. This is especially true in art used in advertising or promoting something (like art on a book cover), because it's all about appealing to the viewer's perspective. After all, the Principles of Art are used to make pieces more aesthetically pleasing to the eye. It doesn't matter what you had in mind when creating a piece of art. How the viewer interprets your work is integral in their overall fondness of it. |
Teacher-Animal Poster Project
This was an extremely fun project, likely because the main objective was to mesh the face of a staff member to the body of an animal, character, or inanimate object. I call mine "Heercheffie," as it is a blend of Heerschap and Effie Trinket from The Hunger Games. In this project, I learned a lot about warping text, changing skin color, and adding different effects to things I paste. It was probably the project I learned the most from thus far.
Name Project For our first project, we were asked to take pictures of objects we found outside and assemble them in Photoshop to spell our names. This was my result! Throughout this process, I became more familiar with various Photoshop tools, and gained much fluency with refining edges of selected items.
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How-To Videos Project We did a sort of independent Photoshop study, which involved watching informative instruction videos and replicating their processes in our own mini-projects. This result, involving me changing my eye color to purple, was by far my favorite. Mostly, I learned about color overlay and hue changes, as well as a few nifty shortcut commands.
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