Type 2 by John Espinoza

 The trip to the Museum of Illustration was an interesting trip to say the least. I love how close it was to our school; only one stop away in both the E and 6 train. When we arrived at the Museum of Illustration, I expected it to be slightly bigger. Despite this, I enjoyed the cozy vibe it gave off.  I enjoyed the workshop with David Curtis. I liked all the book covers on all the tables and I especially loved the work he did for IT; it was spectacular. Him getting married at the same time made it even better. I still believe that he could have been more concise with showing off his work.  I love that David Curtis gave us time to draw after he finished his presentation. I struggled to think about what I wanted to draw and I didn't come up with something until there was only 15 minutes. This led me to not make that much progress in my own drawing. I got inspiration from Erin Hunter's "Warriors" or also known as "Warrior Cats." I tried to draw one of her book ...

I believe that this was one of the most frustrating projects that I have ever done for this class, which is concerning because I just started my Photoshop journey. I am able to do my project at home on my personal computer and my work in class. However, when I try to save my work either on the cloud or as a regular PSD file at home or in class, I can't find it. I have even tried saving it on Google Drive in the folder that I shared with you. I search everywhere I think the file may be at, and it's never there. This is just extremely infuriating because this is an easy thing to do. I don't know if when I upload something it is just glitching. There were some positive aspects to this project despite all these things that happened in the process of doing my work. After some time, I kind of found painting this therapeutic; I really enjoyed the yellow parts of the project because of how little of the color there was compared to the rest of the other colors. Additionally, it requ...

  This is the Photoshop Blend Modes project that I did. This was a relatively easy project. The only difficult parts of this project were trying to fit 25 faces of me on the screen. However, after some trial and error and cropping some parts of the image, I managed to fit all 25 little images of me on the screen. I like these types of introductory projects because they help you really ease into a new application; in this case, Photoshop. I enjoyed this project and would definitely do it again if I had to.  Some of the many blend modes that I used were darken, multiply, overlay, hard/soft light, and many others. Darken compares the colors of the blending layer and the base layers and keeps the darker colors. Multiply darkens the layer based on the colors of the layers below it. Overlay uses screen at half strength on colors brighter than 50% gray, and multiply at half strength on colors darker than 50% gray. Hard light combines multiply and screen to create a contrasted effect....