For our first art project this year in Graphic design we had to create an image partly using only one letter of the alphabet, for this I chose the letter C. Which should be expected for the first art project and for the first time using photoshop there were both times of difficulty negatively affecting aspects of the work and times where through inference or learning I was able to successfully use a tool that made certain parts of the piece look good. My strongest aspect of the work was probably in the blending of colors of the moon, stars, and sky. It more convincingly mimicked light effects than other parts of the picture, had better placing than the sea, and had much starker contrast with the background than anywhere else that culminated to a more attractive area. The weakest area of the work was probably the boat floating on the sea. It had poor contrast and overlap with the sea as well as not blending well, it just didn’t look too in place which could have been improved by putting a more precise touch on the above described aspects.

With all projects or works some things are easier done than others. The easiest part of this piece was definitely the placing of the Cs in the sky. In putting them against the background they did not require any shifts after the fact and the only difference between them is font size and location. The hardest part of the work was the placing Cs in the sea and how the shading around them worked. Each C required multiple movements and shifts while the blending between the sky and the sea was slow and tedious with the brush in order to get the varying blending effect. The sky ultimately took less than a class to complete versus multiple classes getting the sea right even though it took up less of the image.

The project was not purely independent but instead we had a set of objectives we had complete. We had to use proper alignment, contrast, proximity, and repetition. Proximity was nice and variable between different Cs in the photo and repetition was achieved through the many Cs being present. For alignment I was careful to avoid the center of the image putting key focus points on the bottom and sides and finally contrast was created between the dark of the sky with the blue of the sea and the light of the stars. Nothing in the picture I made was perfect and there are plenty of things I would do differently if I had to do it again. An example of this would be not exploring more into the various blending tools available to manipulate the background. I would use the 3D tools as well to make the image look less flat, especially the sea. I would also consider doing an entire different setting for the picture to see if that changes anything. The project as a whole was a good kickstart for the year to introduce us to Photoshop.