Lichtenstein

Ben-day dots are a process where you take two or more different colored tiny dots to make a new color.

Roy Lichtenstein was a pop artist just like Andy Warhol but he had a very different style. Warhol used more rough, jagged edges with his contrast so that the photos he used looked much more like prints than actual photos. Also, his subjects looked more realistic even though he used bright, unnatural colors. Lichtenstein uses bright colors and bright contrast, but his subjects look more cartoony, almost like they belong in a comic book, and his edges are sharp and precise.

Here is my version of Lichtenstein-inspired, ben-day dots technique with Photoshop (which, by the way, is REALLY HARD to do):

Homework: Tagul Typography

\This is a picture of Barbra Streisand made up of the lyrics to her song "Don't Rain On My Parade"

Typography- Day One

Typography is the use of typed letters or symbols for a visual impact. 

This is my own typography with the custom tool that creates a moon shaped of the first few lyrics to "The Music Of The Night" from The Phantom of the Opera. And the other thing above it is just my name being weird.

Pop Art: Part Two

To create my own pop art, I used filters in Photoshop such as Cutout, Neon Glow, and Poster Edge. Then I just messed around with the colors so that it would look vibrant and exciting. Voila!

Pop Art: Part One

Pop art is everyday life. The subjects of pop art are ordinary, sometimes dull things that are made vibrant and commercial. For example, photos are edited so that they don't look real and images are repeated multiple times.

Here are examples of pop artist Andy Warhol's work: 

Here's a picture of me off a "Warholize Yourself" website:

Homework: Letter Photography

This spells out "All You Need Is Love", one of the greatest Beatles songs ever:

Two Face

For this project we had to take a photo of two people and switch their faces using Photoshop. Let me just say that this is way harder than it looks. For this photo of me and my friend Nicholle, I used the Lasso tool to select the faces, then copied it and pasted it onto the other faces. I re-sized the faces using the Free Transform tool and turned down the opacity on the layers so that I could line up the features. Then I used to the blur and eraser tools to make it more smooth and less like like a copy-and-paste job. After that, I just dodged, blurred, and burned until it became as close as I could get it without it looking TOO weird. (as if that's possible)