Giraffe City

Although I love all animals, giraffes are my favorite.
Here is one of my first images that I created using Photoshop. Although, it wasn't the most difficult image to make, it did take me a bit of time. I kept messing up on the legs and making them too thin. Also, I had to edit the size of the giraffes, and I had to erase the land that the giraffes were in. That's one of the reasons why I had a hard time with the legs. I had to copy the pattern on the legs and paste it down to make the legs longer.
Over all, for one of my first creations in the graphic design class, Creative Imaging, I am happy with the way it came out. If I were to re-do a few things, I definitely would make the legs of the giraffe on the left a bit wider. I also would add a few more giraffes, or maybe some trees to the city.
I hope that you enjoyed viewing this picture. Thank you for reading!

What is art?
The question is posed in many art classes.
"What is art?"

In my opinion, art is an expression of ideas or feelings into a piece of work which contains good craftsmanship. Art is designed to provoke a certain thought or feelings.

Art is defined in the English dictionary as; consisting of paintings, sculpture, and other pictures or objects which are created for people to look at and admire or think deeply about.

There are many, many, many different types of art. Art ranges from poetry to paintings, from sculptors to plays and anything in between. One form of art that interests me most, is graphic design. Graphic design uses a series of photographs or drawings on the computer to morph them together and form one photograph. The final photograph usually portrays either a surreal scene, or a scene that could truly happen in nature. The reason why graphic design interests me so much, is because I like the surrealism and the questions or feelings it provokes. I am also not the best drawer in the world, although I am getting better thanks to the help of my drawing and painting teacher, so therefore using images from the web or my own photographs that I have taken and maybe a few of my best drawings to form one masterpiece is much more successful. Graphic design also uses much creativity as you piece together an ocean scene with an image of a giraffe filtered to look as though it were sketched against a purple sky.

I have created many of my own pieces, and have seen many pieces which have inspired me and made me think as well as have given me ideas on my next project. Throughout my blogs, I will be showing a few of my own pieces and discussing what was going through my mind and what it was I was attempting to portray and get at. I will also be showing a few designs by artists that have not only inspired me, but left me in awe. Art that uses graphic design won't be the only type of art that I use on this site, though the majority of the artwork will consist of computer animated images.

I hope that these blogs will not only teach you more about art, but that they will inspire you yourself to make art if you're not doing it already.