Final Post

Coming into this class, I was terrified of failing. It has always been a challenge for me to be creative and I have never been good with technology. But this class taught me that it all takes practice, even being creative takes practice. The more you challenge your mind, the more creative you will be. Throughout this whole semester, there have been many assignments and many sleepless nights, but I can honestly say that I would do it over again. One of my failures was not trying hard enough to figure out how to make something work, which resulted in a not so good Morphx video, Famous painting project, and Somewhere project. Another failure of mine is doubting myself which held me back from completing an assignment and turning it in late. One of my favourite projects to make which turned out really well was the Poster. I loved that project. Another art piece that turned out really good was the Mesh tool. I have learned SO much in this class and wanted to thank my professor Santiago Echeverry for encouraging and inspiring me to push myself. He is truly passionate about what he teaches and is amazing at what he does! I can honestly say he was one of the best professors I've had!

Final Portfolio

This is my final portfolio! It includes all of my artwork for the semester! The cover page is a photo that was taken of me. This was our final project that wrapped up Beginning Digital Arts class for me! 

Poster

This was one of my favourite projects! We were supposed to create a project that sends a meaningful message and had to have our face in it. I decided to use the quote "Overthinking kills your happiness," because I always have to remind myself not to over think things. 

This is the photo I took of myself:          

Here it is after I reduced it to 3 colors with the Image Tracing option:

Here is the final poster! 

Gradient Mesh

For this Project, we were supposed to find an object in our room, take a picture of it, and re-create it using the mesh tool in illustrator. 

Selfie with the object: 

Here is the object:

Here is the gradient mesh!

Mesh Tutorials

In order to understand how to use the mesh tool in illustrator, I watched a couple that professor Santi provided us. These tutorials were very informative as they taught me how exactly to use the mesh tool and what exactly I need to do to re-create an object. 

Tutorial 1: 

Tutorial 2: This tutorial helped me the most with my project since it looked like the object I chose. I had to use the same techniques that were showed in this video.

Calligram

For this project we were supposed to create an entire image with just text from a poem. I asked my mom to send me her favorite Arabic poem, and created an image that represents it with the text. The poem is about the love and respect a child has for his or her mom. I chose an image of a mother holding her child to represent the poem. 

Here is the image: 

Here is the poem: 

أمي يا ملاكي يا حبي الباقي الى الأبد

ولا تزال يداك أرجوحتي ولا ازال ولد

أمي وانت زهر في عطره أضيع

وإذ أقول أمي افتن بي أطير

عيناك ما عيناك اجمل ما كوكب في الجلد

أمي يا نبض قلبي نداي ان وجعت

وقبلتي وحبي أمي ان ولعت

أمي يا ملاكي يا حبي الباقي الى الأبد

Here is the final product: 

Business Cards

At first when I heard we had to create logos and make business cards for someone else, I was worried. I thought that mine would turn out so bad because i'm not creative like that. Fortunately, they did not turn out too bad and I actually had so much fun making them. Although we were only asked to make five, I ended up making eight because of how indecisive I am.