Andy Warhol was a major contributor to the modern art scene with some of his most famous work being Pop art. It would take a person and warp their color onto a gradient plain making them look like an object. For our fifth project in Elements of design we were tasked to create our own pop art with an image of ourselves or a friend. Compared to other projects this year it took a short time to complete and on a personal level I think it turned out nice.

In making my Pop Art a lot turned out well and in some ways unexpectedly. Its strongest aspect would have to be how the image composition worked with the cutout filter and coloring to improve its original quality. The original picture of James, the subject, had his eyes almost closed and had parts of his face out of focus. But, after all the necessary transformations he now looks like he has a deep expression and pops from the background. By contrast the weakest aspect of the work would be how color variation and complementation is lacking some images, specifically the purple and brown image looks out of place.

Given that this project took the least amount of time to complete there was a lot that was easy about it. What was easiest was the setup for the image so you could transform it into pop art. It was as simple as taking an image and putting it through a filter or two, after this you just need to adjust the size and that’s half the project. What was most difficult about the project, though still comparatively easy to other projects this year, was getting the colors onto the gradients of the transformed image to make it pop art. Sometimes the magic wand tool would not select everything it was supposed to if small lighter areas were isolated, this even happened with contagious unchecked. Messing around with the tool to get it to work was tedious and had some difficulty.

The project’s objective this time was to use a multitude of tools to properly transform the image, these included the crop, magic wand, paint bucket, and paint brush tool. The crop tool was used to take the original image and size it properly after sizing it up to the project size, you use it by just selecting an area and pressing enter to get rid of the unselected area. The magic wand tool was used to select each grey gradient which would then be colored. The paint bucket tool could fill in a selected area while the paintbrush tool does the same thing except you do it by hand. I my project I used the tools in this way to take the grey gradient of my picture and make it pop with color. If I had to do one thing differently though I would definitely use lighter and more vibrant colors. Given the context they just look better than browns and darker purples.