COLLAGE EXERCISE- BLIND LADDER

Collage is an artistic composition of materials and objects pasted over a surface, often with unifying lines and color and create 1 single meaning picture. I love this style of artist because it ‘s quite easy to make, you don’t need to draw well. The only thing you need is idea and how to show your idea. With the support of Photoshop, this work is become easier. This is my idea. It name “Blind Ladder”.

PHOTOSHOP EXERCISE – JUDGMENT DAY

Last Tuesday, I had an Photoshop exercise. This exercise was very interesting, because by using simple pictures, after applying some effects in Photoshop, I can create impressive pictures in my own way. I applied this exercise to show my idea “ Judgment day”. In the Development of electronic technology, human life is becoming more advantageous, however, there are also disadvantages, people are becoming depend very much on machine, the environment is also being destroyed by modern technology. One day, human life will be ended by themselves. I took my own picture, edited( change level of the town scene to make it darker, crop the sky and replace eyes, change color of eyes, create thunder, etc) to create the picture of “Judgment day”.

MY SHADOW MAKING

This week , I learned how to make a basic shadow manually not by available tools such as filter in Photoshop. I realized that making a shadow of a picture by our self is more real than using available tool because we can control the picture flexibly. I tried at home.
Firstly, I used pen tool to crop the picture, cope 1 more cropping picture. In the copied picture, I used level board to make it completely black and after that used blur tool to make it blur. After that , I used transform/distort to make the shape of the black shadow change depends on the direction of the light, make it feel suitable with the main picture. Finally , I used layer style/ gradient to make the shadow gradient ( dark in the bottom and light in the top of the shadow).Complete.

ORCHIDARIUM CARD

In class, we had an interesting exercise about creating a card for Orchidarium. The requirement of this card is it have to be simple but chic. After cropping the orchid by pen tool in Photoshop, I created this card in Illustrator. Because the colour of the orchid is pink, I decided to choose black colour for the background in order to make the orchid more impressive. The colour of the name “Orchidarium” is yellow because this colour is also one of colours in orchids and the yellow “Orchidarium” will be easy to read on the main black background and part of the orchid background. In the information part, I choose white colour, especially, the name “Michael Speaks” is in dark orange colour .

SELF GRAFFITI

When looking at posters of CD cover of singers, especially hip-hop bands. I feel very interested in the ways they use graffiti and black color. On the other hand, when viewing a blog of Bui Nguyen Tung ( my class mate) , there is a small lesion about how to create a simple graffiti . Finally, I decided to make self poster by combining between my own style( using black and red color) and graffiti. At first, I use illustrator to create my name in “wildstyle” graffiti (a form of graffiti involving interlocking letters, arrows, and connecting points). Then, I took my own picture, using photoshop to edit it looks like a painter. In the background, I choose black color and 2 lines( one is red which represents for fire, one is blue which represents for ice)

GESTALT EXERCISE

After studying about Gestalt Theory for Designing, we have a practice exercise: using available images and text to illustrate 2 following concept : proximity and closure. Because the title “ The secret life of plants”, I decide to represent 2 ideas: plants and sex. Firstly, I decide to make the title lie on the curve, I mean sexy curve and make it look like the body of the flower. Available images are clipped mask to shapes of flowers ‘ petals. On the other hand , the curve of shape of the paragraphs are also made to follow the curve of the title.

RHYTHM of THE TROJAN

This is my own simple flash animation about Trojan Rhythm. As we know, Trojan, Virus , or other spyware are one of our concern especially with people who work with computers. In some attractive website, the probability of spyware infection is very high. I am really annoying and angry when my PC is infected by Virus. For that reason, I decide to made the flash, using sound that I recorded especially signal sounds in computer when infected, images of the computer screen and after that connecting them together to create an annoying rhythm of sound and I think that all of people who often work with computer hate this sound very much.( you can also view in this link : http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t218/s3146097duy/flash.swf )