Ben Bickerstaff

This project was fairly simple. It was to take our logo, and create a brush that we can used, basically like a spray paint tag you would see from a street artist. I really enjoyed this project as well. Though it was fairly simple, it was cool to make my own brush. For this, I took my logo, and added a spray paint overlay around it, then added some texture over the logo itself, which allowed it to look like a tag.  I thought that the tag was cool. I have had to use similar things in the past, like a watermark, but I thought that this was a more fun way to do it. It was really fun to change the colors around and do crazy things with it. What makes this successful is that it clearly displays my logo, while still having the spray paint effect, making it look like a tag brush.

For this assignment, we had to use illustrator to create a logo for ourselves. This is something that I have been toying with for a while, as in today's marketing landscape, having your own personal brand is becoming increasingly important. This assignment was really fun. I love making logos for different things, or updating logos of current things like sports teams. For this particular piece, we had to make three colored versions of our logo.  I started the project with a black and white logo, which utilized a B for my name, and three feathers coming off it which I took inspiration from the Goodyear logo, which is the foot with wings. The wings were also used because I play lacrosse, and the sport was create by Native Americans, and eagle feathers are important in their culture. Originally, I had an original lacrosse stick underneath the B, however when we zoomed out on it, you couldn't make out the stick, so I decided against it. When it came to choosing the colors for each v

  For this project, we were utilizing Adobe Illustrator to create a self-portrait propaganda poster. I have used Illustrator in the past to create other work, however it is still a platform that I struggle with at times. this project however, was enjoyable. I found it fun to take an image of myself and try to recreate it as a drawing.  When it came to choosing a propaganda statement, I chose to go with "Make Art, Not War." I thought that with all that is going on in the world, especially in Ukraine, that the slogan was appropriate. For me, I feel that the world needs more art and beauty, opposed to war and anger, whether that be actual war, or other things like politics, and disagreements. Like I stated previously, I have had some previous experience in the software, so how it operated wasn't foreign to me, so it was relatively easy to figure out what I wanted to do, and how I wanted to do it. The issues came with the execution, whether it be getting the right tones, or m

  1. I think this would be difficult to photoshop myself into. With all of the colors, and light trails, I would need to properly light myself to make it look like I am there. Along with properly exposing my photo, having to light myself with the light trails would be difficult. 2. This image made me laugh and remember the funny memes from when Obama was in office. It reminded me of the funny images we got to see all the time, and made me think about the possibility of photoshopping myself into an image with them. 3. This image made me laugh. I thought this was a funny way to fix his question. It also reminded me of my fear of losing my hair, and not wanting people to see it. Overall this one made me laugh a lot. 4. I would like to recreate this illusion. This is because I have done food photography before, and had to create my own make-shift studio, like this one. I enjoyed the process of creating the setting for the food to be displayed on, it takes a lot of creativity and patience t

This assignment was to make a piece of art using photoshop, that required us to take a black and white image and make it into a colored image, using solid color overlays, and masking. For my pieces, I chose to use analogous, triad, and double split complementary color rules.     I enjoyed this project. I have been using photoshop for a long time, so it was nice to do a project using the software. I found it fun to use different colors and create something different and fun. I found it particularly fun to play around with the colors of the helmet in my photo. Since the photo I used was of me playing lacrosse, it allowed me to use fun colors to basically design new styles of helmets, which is something I used to do as a kid online, before I would buy a new one.    When designing this piece, I wanted to utilize colors that I liked. I picked three different styles, then played with the tool on color.adobe.com. I picked random colors on the analogous one, but tried to choose more pastel/fad

 This video was a quick introduction to Photoshop. Within it it went over many of the tools and features that the application has to offer. One of the important ones that I saw was the layer mask. This feature allows you to erase what you are doing, utilizing the brushes that you have, however it does not fully get rid of something, it simply puts a "mask" over it. I have used this tool a lot, and it makes fixing mistakes I make while erasing much easier. The video also showed some shortcuts, which is something that I don't know much about. I have been using the application for a long time, however have never learned the shortcuts. This video was more basic that the first but I did learn something new. For the majority of the video, the guy just describes the different tools that the application offers, at a very basic level. The new thing that I learned was how to change the pen tool into a selection, by hitting command enter on the keyboard. This is something that will