Wallpaper and articles.

Since we're making a zine for our final project, I need a background for it. We had to make a background using one of our logos. This is what I came up with.

I'm not sure which posts I'm supposed to include articles about my subject, but these two articles have been saved in a draft on this blog for a few weeks now, so I'm just going to post them.

article about using sunflower oil as a green kind of fuel

this tells you everything you ever wanted to know about sunflowers

Eyeball

I traced a drawing of my eye with the pen tool in illustrator. For some reason when I uploaded it it turned blue. That's never happened to me before.


Okay that time it worked.

sunflower logos

These are my logos made with Illustrator.

Anything went

Collage portraying something about my object....
This is a sunflower city, a night world. Fascination with the sunflower (they are looking at the sky or each other with flowers in their hair), feminine, mysterious. This is the mood or ideas my collage generates. I like the visual impact.

Links to the images I used:
city background
girl in bottom right corner
women in the pillars
sunflower in woman's hair
The girl in the center is a picture I had saved on my computer from before, so I can't find a link.

Adjustment Layers

I had to make the image from last week look better, so I brightened it a bit. It was already in focus, so there wasn't much to do.


Then I had to edit it in an unusual way, so that's what I did.



I know, it's hideous, but the first had to be monochromatic, second the subject and background contrasting colors, third one mess with saturation, and fourth one brighten the image. I like the green monochromatic, because green is associated with nature and this is in the woods. I used different adjustment layers to edit these.

I'm extremely tired and running on two hours of sleep, so my descriptions suck. Pardon me. Goodnight!

Playing with Reality

We had to take our object from one picture and place it in a new background. Now my sunflower hangs on the wall alongside plaques for each branch of the military. They really contrast. But both are personal to me.


How cute! I needed to create the illusion perspective and this seemed like a good photo where there could be a few sunflowers. Now my flower is on the cute head of my adorable little cousin.

Nifty.

10 different views

What interests me about my subject? Well it's brightly colored orange-yellow, so it stands out in pictures. It's a pin and a clip. It's artificial, but represents a living object, so it works in pictures with nature and with man-made objects. It has a use. It can be worn in my hair as a clip, or used as a pin.