Magasin by Lovette Fernandez

MAGASIN You Got ART? FEATURING: The Fall 2011 Computer Graphics Class of Saint Xavier University.

Table of Contents Adobe Illustrator: Saint Xavier University Visual Arts Center

VASE-Tastic

Hello, Hello Kitty!

Different Faces of Converse

Home Sweet Home

Teapots Mania

Computer Graphics Class of Fall 2011

Last Words

Blog Process Magazine Product

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Adobe Illustrator: Saint Xavier University Visual Arts Center

“The place where Saint Xavier University Department of Art and Design professors mold and help their students to learn and to improve their techniques and crafts in visual arts.”

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• Place the image in Adobe Illustrator but make sure the image and the illustrator file is in the SAME folder.

• Add the bricks and use the eyedropper tool to achieve the hue that is close to the original image.

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• Trace the outline of the image and make sure to work from background to foreground. Also, use the eyedropper tool to have the same hue as the original image.

• Use the pen tool to trace the four corners of the page to create a rectangular shape for the background and use the eyedropper tool to fill in the light blue hue. Next, use the paintbrush tool create the clouds and use a white hue for the strokes.

STEP 3: • Trace the columns of the image and add some details to make the grahic more realistic which is the main goal of this exercise.

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he Visual Arts Center is the home of the talented arts students of Saint Xavier University located at 10435 South Spaulding Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, 6055. This is the place where SXU Department of Art and Design professors mold and help their students to learn and to improve their techniques and crafts. As a Computer Studies major, I decided to take an art class this semester for me to explore and to improve my art skills. In addition, this class helps me to learn more about designing that will tremendously help me in designing web sites in the future.

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” - Vincent Van Gogh

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CRAFT I used my Nikon S60 camera to take a picture of the Visual Arts Center. I took a picture from an angle so when I place my picture on Adobe Illustrator it is going to be easier for me to zoom in and out of the picture. I used the pen tool, eyedropper tool to trace my art work.

COMPOSITION First, I put the VAC picture in a folder then opened Adobe Illustrator to make a new page and saved it on the folder where the VAC picture is. The two files has to be on the same folder, if not it is not going to work fine. Second, I created a layer where the original picture is then another layer for my picture art. Third, I started tracing the outline of my picture by using the pen tool, because it is always easier to work from the background to the foreground, so I can be sloppy to the area where the foreground is going to overlap the background. Fourth, I traced the details of the picture

and used the eyedropper tool to fill in colors closest to the original hue of the VAC picture. Fifth, I traced the bricks one by one and used the eyedropper tool to mimic the original color of the bricks. For this exercise, I’m exploring the color of my building to make it more interesting. I use the Pop Art palette to make the color more vibrant and interesting. I think the color makes the building pop out of the black background. I like the idea of contrast in this exercise, because it makes me step out of my comfort zone of always being precise yet still sticking on the details of the original image.

CONCEPT The concept of my artwork is our school’s Visual Arts Center. I think it is interesting because it gives different angles and I can control the eyes of my viewer to go in to different direction.

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VASE-Tastic CRAFT I used long brushstrokes to build up the shape of each bottle. After building a general shape I went in and added cross hatching lines to give the shape more definition and more structure. I layered line after line. I started layering with darker and lighter hues to give the objects real shape and three dimensionality.

COMPOSITION The darker hues help define the shadows on each object. By creating this value contrast between the medium tones and the darker and lighter ones the objects begin to stand out and take real shape.

CONCEPT The concept for this piece was to take two complimentary colors and set them against each other in an effort to show the different hues and values and how they work together and can help each other stand out.

Did You Know Picasso’s full name has 23 words? Picasso was baptized Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso. He was named after various saints and relatives. The “Picasso” is actually from his mother, Maria Picasso y Lopez. His father is named Jose Ruiz Blasco. SOURCE: http://www.neatorama.com/2008/10/25/10-fun-facts-about-pablo-picasso/

Images and Texts By: Amy Duffy

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VASE-Tastic

“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.” - Pablo Picasso

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Images and Texts By: Roxy Wasiunec

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CONCEPT

To create these images I used illustrator. in Illustrator I chose the brush tool and and made two layers. The first layer was made with a green pallet and its all 5s. the second (bowls) layer was made with different size brushed ranging from .25-10. The color pallet used for that was orange monochromatic 2.

The hue that was used in this was green and orange because they are on opposite side of the color spectrum. The image has a lot of darker values on the left side of the left image and right side as well. where on the opposite side has a lot more lighter values. The reason the two colors were chosen were because they create a very nice contrast.

The left image was a tall and wide vase that had natural lines and branches. The right side has a short more narrow vase with more lines and branches as well. both have natrual shapes to them.

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VASE-Tastic Images and Texts By: Shawnita Montgomery

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For the following images I use Adobe Illustrator. The tools for this were the paint brush, color guide (using multiple forms of color) and the the brush stroke. Also a glass bottle and small round vase was used, and a bright light to give the objects shades.

I want my audience to see the growth of my images as they develop more color and detail. The way their eyes to fall on the shades and shadows as well as the shapes outline. Focus on the Hue’s and values of the images. The images were created for my computer graphics class recently and I want my growth or skills to be noticed as I try to advance my work to my best.

The main focus of these images are about a glass bottle and a small round vase with lots of shadows.

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VASE-Tastic

Images and Texts By: Giovanni Diaz

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COMPOSITION

CONCEPT

The tools I used to make this drawing were Adobe Illustrator, the paint brush, and different layers of color. The way I used my hand to make this drawing was by using lines to create the shapes of the drawing. Also I made the background by putting many different ways of writing five with different colors and size.

I used different colors and sizes to not only create the background, but also to create the different shapes. I also used value in this drawing, which is the relationship between these objects and light. Finally I used Hue and contrast of colors, to really make this drawing pop up and cath the eyes of the viewer; eventhough it is ugly.

This drawing has an object that is tall and an object that is short. It also has an object that is natural and an object that is hand-made. What I want people to think when they see this drawing is a colorful drawing, with two handmade objects holding twigs. Background by putting many different ways of writing five with different colors and size.

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for orange, but the third picture has an almost brownish hue to it. You can see the value in the green and orange in that the scale ranges from light to dark.

CONCEPT

Images and Texts By: Christian Rosales

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CRAFT First I opened Adobe Illustrator and began drawing a green background which is going to be layer one. I used between a 5 and 10 point brush to make the background full of fives. By using the color guide, I used different shades of green. The shades ranged

COMPOSITION from light to dark green. Once that done, I made a new layer, started drawing vases using a five point brush I drew two vases. Again, using the color guide, I used different shades of orange, ranging from light to dark orange.

Now, even though both vases, in real life, are the same size, I decided to draw one slightly bigger than the other. The reason I did this was because that is how I imagined them. I also drew them so that they looked man-made. That’s the look I was going for.

Did You Know? The oldest known extant oil paintings date from 650 AD, found in 2008 in caves in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Valley, “using walnut and poppy seed oils.” SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_paint

By using light, dark, and even opposite colors I have given my art contrast. As you can see from the pictures above, the background is a collaboration of green colors. It’s hard to tell which green is which, but you can tell that they are green or of a greenish hue. The same goes • VOLUME I • MAGASIN •

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CRAFT I used my Nikon S60 camera to take a picture of my Hello Kitty stuffed toy. I put Hello Kitty on the floor and sit it against the wall, so it can sit on its own. I laid my camera on the floor so that it can take a closed up picture of Hello Kitty. I intentionally did it so that when I linked my picture in Adobe Illustrator I can zoom in and out of my picture with no problem. Next, I transferred the photo I took in my all in one computer and used the software HP Photo Viewer to view my picture. Lastly, I used Adobe Illustrator to traced my photo.

COMPOSITION First, I put the Hello Kitty picture in a folder then opened Adobe Illustrator to make a new page and saved it on the folder where the Hello Kitty

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picture is. The two files has to be on the same folder because if not it is not going to work fine. Second, I created a layer where the original picture is then another layer for my picture art. Third, I started tracing the outline of my picture by using the pen tool, because it is always easier to work from the background to the foreground, so I can be sloppy to the area where the foreground is going to overlap the background. Fourth, I traced the details of the picture and used the eyedropper tool to fill in hues closest to the original hue of the Hello Kitty picture. Fifth, I made a background layer and used the paintbrush tool to fill in the area with lines of five and number 5 like what we did in our warm-ups in class by using black hue. Then, I used the red hue to do the same

thing to have a contrast. I want my viewers to focus on my subject, Hello Kitty, that is why I did a dark hue background.

CONCEPT The artwork is about my favorite character Hello Kitty. I think it is going to be fun to do something about my favorite character because since when I was I kid I really love Hello Kitty. I want my audience to think about their childhood memories, because it reminds us of good times and sometimes bad times too. Also, it helps us think that even though there are a lot of changes that happened in our life we will always love the things we liked when we were young.

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” - Pablo Picasso

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Different Faces of Converse Images and Texts By: Allison Horn

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CONCEPT

In Adobe Illustrator, I used the pen tool to create shapes and I used a camera to take a picture of the image I was going to create.

The subject is a pair of shoes. That is what I want viewers to be able to recognize. Everything surrounding then will be more clear once I add more detail because right now it is hard to tell what the shoes are setting on.

COMPOSITION The converse shoes are obviously the main subject of the piece and they are sitting right in the center of the page. They are set on a step stool and there is a sense of depth since I made a wall in the background. I wanted the viewer’s eye to focus first on the shoes and probably follow along the wavy laces, then to look towards the background.

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Home Sweet Home Images and Texts By: Tom Zwarycz

In this work, I imported an image taken from my phone (Nexus One) into Adobe Illustrator. The original image can be seen above. After importing, I traced over the image creating boxes and other shapes that represented parts of the original image. I used the line and rectangle tools in order to create these shapes. I then used the eyedropper tool capture the correct color and used the gradient tool to add depth and shade where needed. Actual screen shots of the progress of this work can be seen below. Each day’s work is separated into different layers in the Illustrator file in order to easily locate a specific shape if needed. This project took a combined total of about 9 hours from start to finish.

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CRAFT To variate the colors of the objects, I used the pointer tool to select certain objects. I then used the color swatches and different color pallets to change the color and feel of the work. Again, this is still using the same program, Adobe Illustrator. I also used gradients where needed to show depth and shade.

COMPOSITION In some works that use color, I use light tints of each color to make objects stand out more, such as windows and bricks. This trick emphasizes more on the center object or point of interest and less on the background.

CONCEPT The whole idea with adding lighter colors allows me to control what the viewer will see first and where the viewer’s eye will go next. If I make a certain object stand out by giving it a high contrast, the viewer will look at that object int the work first. I also used color to change the whole mood of the picture, for example, when I made the photo look like it was taken in the dark or on the scorching sun.

“Creativity takes courage.” - Henri Matisse

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TEAPOTS... Images By: Allison Horn

...MANIA Images By: Amy Duffy

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teapots... Image By: Christian Rosales

Images By: Nico Krajecki

...MANIA Image By: Robert Furlan

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Computer Graphics

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Class of Fall 2011

Allison Horn

Jordan Juarez

Christian Rosales

Robert Furlan

Giovanni Diaz

Roxy Wasiunec

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Computer Graphics

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Class of Fall 2011

Shawnita Montgomery

Nico Krajecki

Amy Duffy

Tom Zwarycz

Synthia Wesley

Lovette Fernandez

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Last Words... To all my magazine readers, Thank you very much for picking up my first magazine, and I really do hope you guys enjoyed it. Designing this magazine is a new experience for me, and I know it will help me a lot in my future career. Also, it’s been a creative and fun experience for me to work with my wonderful and amazing classmates especially with my very talented and energetic professor Nathan Peck. I want to take this opportunity to thank God for always guiding and blessing me and my family. I want to thank my parents for always supporting and encouraging me to do my best in everything I do. I want to thank my siblings for inspiring me to finish my school, even though they are thousand miles away from me. I want to thank my friends for being such a wonderful support system for me. Lastly, I want to thank all my professors at Saint Xavier University for always encouraging me to learn and to keep on learning. Again, THANK YOU VERY MUCH everyone! I can’t stop thanking you all for being such a huge part of my life. You all inspire me, and I hope I do the same way to you all too.

Love, Lovette

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