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PHOTOSHOP ONLINE ASSIGNMENT 1

                      

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                FEELING  EXPRESSED IN ABSTRACT

           

                       STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

As Picasso once said, " I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.", it is on this same gesture, that  I am inspired to get my foot ahead of another, walking, moving searching for knowledge or in other words, to come to school to learn.  

Although I am struggling and almost always lost while trying to learn each lesson, these did not discourage  me but  keep  me on coming back. 


On this first assignment  I immersed myself into the concept that in order to learn the art I should think like a child, meaning as a child I should have a very receptive mind, no prejudices nor inhibitions.  I should say how I see things as what they really are,  black is black,  white is white.  I should say that the king is naked though he is believed by old folks to be wearing his new clothes, as a child from once upon a time asserted.

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On this assignment, I used a great deal of the following tools : brush tool, rectangle tool, ellipse tool, polygon tool, line tool, gradient tool. I discovered how layer is created after every image or object  I draw.  I manipulated color changes using the color swatches.

Exercises such as this one has positive results on my proficiency on photoshop not like during the jumpstart classes, where I easily forget techniques when not really obliged to do exercises using them. Somehow,  though lost many times, I could follow each step while doing techniques with the instructor, but without the follow up exercises, I tend to forget most of them if not reinforced with follow up exercises.

I am sure that I am successful with the result from this assignment on account of my feeling that I am better now in photoshop than I was yesterday and expect to be better  in the days to come.

 I enjoy doing this assignment.

Antonio L. Buensuceso Jr.

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PHOTOSHOP CLASS ASSIGNMENT 2

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                           PHOTO RESTORATION 

                  

                        STATEMENT  OF PURPOSE

BEFORE RESTORATION

Photo restoration works like magic and the artists on photo restoration like magicians are crafty individuals. As magicians take out doves out of their pockets and convert pieces of trash papers into real dollar bills right in front of spectators eyes, it is in this great astonishment, admiration, respect that I inclined to bestow on photo restoration practitioners.

No wonder that both professions deliver joy, excitement and awe to their respective audiences on every spectacular performance. People young and old alike got impregnated with notions, that becoming a magician or a photo restoration artist is a worthwhile profession. So, many indulge themselves doing calisthenics honed toward being a successful one.

This brought my classmates and myself here. However, for the time being focus should be turn to the means of achieving those glorifying ends. Means like what I have passed through are really "painless" and "joyful". Yes, it is painless and joyful when one welcomes constantly faced with mazes and puzzles to accomplish work and most often got lost in the process and just silently laugh at himself out. (Or, cried herself out.)

Back to the project on photo restoration, I gather some pictures for the project.  Among them is a class picture way back 1971, a grandma picture ten years ago and some three from Wikimedia Commons.  I chose one from the Wikimedia, a picture of a priest named "de Manila",oldest, I thought .

Practically,  I tried all those pictures as for exercises purposes and proceeded with my chosen project.

I cropped out the picture to remove the text portion of the image because text is not allowed to be included in the project. I used some techniques  and tools in photoshop like marquee tool, lasso tool, magic wand , move tool, crop tool, zoom tool, color , swatches pallette, brush pallette, options pallette, layers and layer masking etc.

On the question on "How successful you think your finished product is?" ,

I chose to answer on the positive. I am successful in the sense that it prepared me to face for mightier challenges ahead. 

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Illustrator Online Assignment 1

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At the first glance learning the pen tool, or illustrator in a broader sense for this matter is not really fulfilling, in fact, honestly, very frustrating. First time users of the pen tool will be amazed by the exciting figures, shapes he could create with every drag and clicks of his mouse but discouraging and frustrating on the other side of the argument in the sense that though it could create some images, but those images, are images which  starting enthusiasts would not want to create in the first place.He wanted to draw something but the pen tool is making something else, very horrible and exasperating.

However, as time passed by, when the artist gained control of the pen tool, meaning the shapes and figures that resulted on every move and stroke of the pen tool is what he intended them to be, it is on this point that one realized a fool he was, had he not continued taming the pen tool.

TRACED IMAGE SILHOUETTE 

On the project, I do not wanted to be biased about it. There are still some imperfections, which  I need to address by more practice, nevertheless, I believe the image on the silhouette is real me. My daughter took this picture and I placed it in Photoshop and saved as 72dpi, jpg image, then placed it in Illustrator and locked layer and used this as a template. I traced the silhouette of my photo and added the text "iSwear" 
to it.

I swear, the Pen tool wont wear one down as it first appears to be.

Antonio L. Buensuceso Jr. 

                                            




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ILLUSTRATOR CLASS ASSIGNMENT 2

By Matisse

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                TRACE FAMOUS ARTIST ARTWORK
                                   

                            STATEMENT     OF     PURPOSE

By Matisse

        As I browsed over the gallery of artwork from where we are asked to choose one for this project,  Pablo Picasso was the artist whose work had greatly attracted me to deal with. I have been inclined to study artworks by Pablo Picasso as I thought of the word Picasso is a person with a joyful and comic personality as his name sounds like "Payaso" meaning clown in Filipino, the Philippine language. A week before the exciting random drawing of lots of who is to be assigned to each one of the forty artworks, Picasso's numbered 8 artwork had given me the groundwork on what I could expect doing this project. I tried it, then, came to realize, Picasso was not "Payaso" (clown) after all, I could not afford to laugh but express sighs of relentless frustrations. His  painting color texture and gradient combinations are illusive   and scared me fitted for the Halloween.

 

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        So when the random drawing of lots called me to choose, I chose  not Pablo Picasso but a simple looking number 25, by Henri Matisse. This one would be easy as I contemplated while we are given a chance to select an artwork during that time. However, like Pablo Picasso's number 8,  Henri Matisse's number 25 is equally intriguing. I constantly agree to writer, Shelley Esaak, when she wrote that Matisse's works are characterized by big blocks of bold , vibrant colors, and a deceptive simplicity. She added farther, Matisse and Picasso are probably the two artists who had the greatest influence on the course of 20th century art. Yes, deceptive simplicity is the term aptly described  Henri Matisse's numbered 25 artwork. He made his paintings in a manner looking effortlessly naive, where unsuspecting art enthusiast would render the art piece as easy as eating peanuts. This reaction is what Sir Henri Matisse purposely wanted his audience to exude. From the words of Sir Henri Matisse, he himself said, "I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have the light joyousness of springtime, which never let anyone suspect the labors it has cost me...".

     Moreover, he said, "What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter, an art which could be for every mental worker, for the businessman as well as the man of letters, for example, a soothing, calming influence on the mind, something like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue."  I,  being an audience, there is no doubt Henri Matisse achieved his intentions to provide me a soothing, calming influence on my mind something like  a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue but I, being an artist, while doing the trace of his painting is like having an armchair slump upon my shoulder. I could feel the burden these artists loaded upon their shoulders while producing their own masterpieces.

      Anyways,  I took pride in having the chance of tracing his artwork as this exercise exposed me to know my handicaps and learn ways to overcome them. Later, when others or myself would be able to copy Matisse's number 25 in all its entirety,  it is paramount to remember that aside from his art, he had his wisdom to share in his own words, "Exactitude is not the truth." .

        Thank you very much.

         Antonio L. Buensuceso

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ILLUSTRATOR CLASS ASSIGNMENT 3

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	Join the rally for a moratorium on fracking! Tuesday December 10 in Oakland  There's no doubt that fracking is driving California backwards.  Now you have a chance to let a key state agency know it's time for a fracking moratorium. Join Sierra Club California, Center for Biological Diversity, Credo, Clean Water Action, 350.Org and other organizations for a rally to call for a fracking moratorium.  The rally will be held at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, December 10, 2013, at the Oakland Convention Center, 550 10th Street, in Oakland. RSVP here. The rally will occur at the first of a series of statewide Environmental Impact Report (EIR) scoping hearings to determine what environmental impacts will be considered when it comes to fracking and well stimulation. The hearing itself will be conducted by the California Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Help us raise our voices at the rally - including through song - in favor of a statewide moratorium on fracking. Then join the crowd inside to urge state regulators that a fracking moratorium needs to be included among the alternatives analyzed in the state's EIR. Wear your Sierra Club gear and show the people of California and Governor Brown's administration that, when it comes to protecting our communities and our environment, the Sierra Club shows up, stands up and speaks up! If you can't come to Oakland, click here to see a list of other EIR hearings around the state later this month. Please RSVP! Sierra Club California 909 12th Street, Suite 202 Sacramento, CA 95814 | P: (916) 557-1100