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Visual Assignment #1 Ok, ok, ok, I know it sounds crazy, but Baby Groot was in my room! Look, that’s totally him! (my photo is on the right, reference on the left) And it makes sense right? It’s snowing outside right now so he probably came in to get out of the cold. He ran […]
In this remix assignment I took an assignment I already completed and added Waldo to the picture. This is what the remix told me to do: I put Waldo into my places of peace. To do this, I used Superimpose and got a photo of Waldo and edited it into my original assignment. This is …
When I think of horror, I think of the killer in the shower trope. My first thought was to have 106 written in bloody letters, but that seemed kind of basic. I found this picture online of a serial killer shower curtain that makes it look like someone is in your shower (not sure why… Continue reading 106 HORROR!
Money. Money runs the world. BUT so girls, specifically women, specifically Beyonce. For this assignment, to mess around with money, I decided to replace the white man currently on the bill with someone more relevant, more prophetic…Beyoncé! I used Photoshop to remove the original face, but keep the same frame. I also downloaded a money… Continue reading Who Runs The World?
This assignment asked us to combine two images in order to create a shocking message. For me a shocking message is anything that causes controversy. My message is that breasts are not inherently sexual. I chose an image of a woman who is consensually showing her breasts and then found a stock image of a… Continue reading Shouldn’t Be Shocking
I decided to re-mix one of the photo assignments! Instead of doing grass or the ground, I did the sky with some clouds. I decided that a sky is just as much part of the earth. I found an HD picture of the sky, one without too many clouds, so it wouldn’t be distracting. Then… Continue reading Earth
This evening I found myself wandering around looking at everything I passed by wondering how each object might look super close up. I was trying to find just the right object (or animal, but my dog’s a bit squirmy) to take a very close-up photo which could trick an audience. This ds106 assignment was funContinue reading "Something Unexpected"
The assignment called for us to populate one of Bob Ross’s landscape paintings. I chose his 1987 Mountain Summit painting because I loved the way the ocean was drawn and the reflection of the trees in it. I thought about who to add to this photo and my first thought was Black women. Black women… Continue reading Everyone Needs a Friend
by Thomas Pulsifer For my final task from the assignment bank for this week, I chose the 2-star prompt of depicting a superhero in a dull, everyday situation. With Batman being my favorite superhero, the choice for which hero to have star in my picture was an obvious one. In the photo above, we seeContinue reading "Holy Quarter Pounder, Batman!"
by Thomas Pulsifer Tapping into my love and appreciation for the artform that is video games, I decided to tackle Jerome Mueller’s 3.5-star prompt to draw an intricate object with only 16×16 pixels. I’ve done a lot of pixel art in the past, so I was excited to see this prompt come up. Though HalloweenContinue reading "16-Bit Bones"
As an artist, I’m always struggling to find inspiration to create, and when I do find inspiration I always want to do these 40 day project that are entirely unthinkable given my time and resources. We live in a time and a space where we literally can’t slow down, life moves at a million miles… Continue reading Visual Assignment: 4 Lines 5 Dots 1 Curve
For my final visual assignment, I Forrest Gumped myself into a historical scene. The comedian Norm MacDonald died recently, and one of his most famous comedic legacies was endlessly mocking OJ Simpson and his infamous murder trial while on SNL. As a result, the first historical scene that popped into my mind was OJ Simpson’s […]
by Thomas Pulsifer For my second task from the assignment bank this week, I’ve chosen Chloe Smolarski’s 4-star prompt to combine at least two images and create a shocking message. All it took was a single glance at the face mask in front of me to know what I wanted my piece to be about:Continue reading "Shocking Imagery"
For this Visual Assignment, I was given the task to name this flower. After some deliberation, I have decided to call this flower Aurelia due to the flowers coloring. Aurelia means golden, which is why I think the name is fitting for this flower.
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My freshman year of UMW I was in design principals (Arts105) and we did a self portrait project where we took a black and white photo of ourselves and then turned it into a piece using two colors on the color wheel in different tones. I chose an image with high contrast and turned it… Continue reading Visual Assignment: Looking at Yourself
I never had the chance to go to a summer camp as a kid. My parents worked pretty hard to shelter us from the dangers of the outside world. Now that I’m an adult myself I can understand that they were concerned for my safety and well being, especially being a Black kid with all… Continue reading Visual Assignment: Camp Poster
For this assignment I Wanted to use the Poem Parody I wrote last week as inspiration for the art I made this week. Really I just took an image of some lemon ricotta pancakes I made, then blurred the image behind my poem, and this is the finished result: This assignment was really light and… Continue reading Visual Assignment: Poetry Art
For this visual assignment, I chose to give the world a Graphic Gift (three and a half stars). This prompt was about taking a vintage advertisement and extracting the product to create an old-school kind of clip art. I really enjoyed the concept and aesthetic of this assignment, so I decided I would give it […]
For this visual assignment, I created a color splash (three and a half stars). Essentially, the prompt instructed to isolate a color in an otherwise black and white photo. After much scrolling through my phone’s camera roll, I finally found a picture I thought would work well, from a strange figure I saw in a […]
For this visual assignment, I chose to make a silly movie poster (three and a half stars). One of my favorite movies of all time is Goodfellas, and the silliest thing that popped into my mind was the classic Groucho Marx glasses, especially when inserted atop unsuspecting victims. Thus, the pairing was born. This was […]
For this visual assignment, I did Glitch Art (three stars). I’ve had some minor previous experience with this genre of digital art, so I partially chose this assignment because I already knew what my method for glitching up my photos would be. I also decided I would take photos from my past that captured memories […]
by Thomas Pulsifer Based on Emma Cate Neves’ 5-star visual assignment prompt, “Earth,” here’s an image I’ve created using Adobe Photoshop. The number of letters in the words I chose ended up creating a lot more work, since it meant more blades of grass needed to be exposed through the mask, but I think that’sContinue reading "Touch Grass"
Today, I decided to attempt my first Photoshop clipping mask based on this ds106 assignment. Did I know what a clipping mask was when I read the assignment description? Heck no. This called for a Youtube tutorial, stat! I very quickly found just the right video from Photoshop themselves. What do ya know, it didn’tContinue reading "Space (clipping) Mask"
This piece was very much inspired by Kayla’s project for this same assignment. The assignment description stated that we had to make a photo black and white and then restore color to a single object. Kayla made an incredibly interesting image where she restored color to a toy machine. The machine was so striking and […]