Text and Images Designs and Self Assessment

Self Assessment:

1. Which one of the four of your Text Designs is the most successful? In what ways? Please be specific. The text design that I feel is most successful is the third one, about the battery acid. First, I was able to give him the appearance of glowing, which was at first a problem but I eventually overcame. Secondly, using a variety of techniques I was able to make it look like the battery is actually in his hand. Lastly, the colors work well, as the words are in red, which is complementary to the color of the glow (green).

2. List some of the tools that you learned and used in this assignment. Which ones did you find the most helpful and in what ways? One tool that I found very helpful to use was the smudge tool. On design #3, I used it to give the glow the appearance of fading away, with a lighter color after the first green. I used the smudge tool to blend the two greens together. One other tool that I used was the hue tool. Using this in design #1, I was able to make the doctor look red in the face, like he is angry. This helped get the point of the sentence across more.

3. With regards to Design concepts and/or Photoshop tools, what do you think you need to know and what do you want to know? In regards to design concepts, I want to learn how to make things look more “professional,” for lack of a better term. I do not feel that my designs are bad, but in looking at some of the other ones that have been done, they look like they were done by, well, a sophomore. I want to go beyond that, and have my designs look even better. Similar to before, in regards to Photoshop tools, I would like to know how to do things more efficiently.

Valentine Design

Type Design with Self Assessment

Self Assessment

1. Are you happy/satisfied with your design? What are some of the features that make it so successful? If you are not satisfied, what would you have done differently to make it more successful? I feel quite satisfied with my design. One feature that I feel I used very well was the color scheme. While at first I was not sure how it would turn out, when I had all the color swatches in the background, I feel as though it works very well. The use of three analogous colors and a complementary suit my design very well in this case, in terms of the letters being able to blend in to the background, and still be able to be seen.

2. List some of the tools that you learned and used in this assignment. Which ones did you find the most helpful and in what ways? Some tools I used in this assignment were the opacity tool and the fill tool. The tool I found most helpful was the opacity tool. I was able to use it to create unique layering, and it also added some new colors to my design. I will definitely use the opacity tool more often in the future, as it added many new elements to my work.

3. With what areas/aspects of Photoshop do you have questions? What activities would help you better understand basic design concepts, along with more Photoshop tools, tips, and tricks? One aspect of Photoshop I have a question about is how to be more efficient. Even though my design came out well, I felt as though I could have been finished quicker. Above all, efficiency is the area I feel like I could improve on in Photoshop, for now. One way to learn basic design concepts or Photoshop tools/tips/tricks is perhaps once a week, allow us class time to ask clarifying questions and just play around on the program. Doing this in class would also allow us to be helped by our classmates, which can also be very useful.

Pop Art

What is Pop Art?
Pop Art is taking normal, everyday objects or shapes and making them into a piece of art that can either be very busy, or very simple. Using all the objects, it can look abstract at times with everything that is going on.

Stuart Davis Biography
After growing up in an artistic family, Davis at first worked for the art magazine The Masses. After visiting Paris in 1928, he introduced a new style of art to the USA, Cubism. Later in his career, he moved on to purely abstract patterns. Through his work, he was able to create a distinct American style of art, claiming he painted the “American Scene”.

Robert Indiana Biography
Robert Indiana was famous for his paintings of signs, which he was able to make into pop art. One theme that repeats itself often in Indiana’s work is the American dream, with which he has both praised and criticized the American way of life. In other works, he uses large block letters in words such as “Love” to change the perspective of viewers.

The Mellow Pad, Stuart Davis









I chose this painting because even though there are many objects, it still does not seem hectic. It does not look like there is too much going on. There is a perfect balance between being busy and going overboard with objects. In this work, Davis has found that balance

2000, Robert Indiana









I chose this work of Robert Indiana’s because of the simplicity of it. It uses minimal objects and colors, but still does not look boring. I feel that the simplicity of the numbers and colors in the painting works very well.