Entry Six: Web Art
The website above is an online portfolio to showcase some artist's work and I think it definitely falls under the category of webart. It's very artistically done and includes a lot of elements (i.e. Photoshop, 3D, interactivity) that make it a functioning, smart looking website. It interweaves a lot of these elements together to create a cohesive space that invites the user in and keeps them clicking. It also has decent navigation that is present on every page which I think is something that's very important for a website.
Entry Five: Our Own Choice of Topic
Awesome Photoshop Disaster Site
This site is fantastic. It's all about photoshop flubs done by mostly magazines that seem rather unnoticeable until they're pointed out. To be honest, I really had to do a double-take with some of them to see the error but when it's noticed, it's hard not to stare.
It's interesting because these pictures aren't from someone's computer who just got photoshop. They're often covers of well known magazines or well known ads and you can be sure that they have professional photoshop artists working for them, yet still there are these mistakes.
What gets me is how bad some of the mistakes really are. And they seem to be made for really silly reasons too. Like, do you really have to edit a hand if it adds fingers or makes it look extremely unnatural? I mean, how bad was it before that you have to go in and do this stuff to make it look possibly worse than before. Probably not THAT bad.
Interesting site that hopefully keeps photoshoppers on their toes when they think no one notices small mistakes like this. Obviously they do if there's an entire site devoted to it.
Entry Four: Abstract
I found this abstract digital art piece by artist, Larry Carlson and it seems to be untitled. There's a lot of different elements in this image, mostly abstracted, but some that are still realistic (i.e. you can make out the human face in the ground and the silouhettes of the birds in the clouds). The background with the sky and the far background elements that make up a sort of landscape look almost mechanical instead of natural and the sky seems to overlap with the foreground in a very unnatural way which plays with depth and creates a bit of an illusion. The colors are really all over the place. There's a lot of things that have a blueish tint cast over them but there's also greens, pinks, purples and even some oranges. The colors really act well with the textures of the objects in the piece. As expected, the clouds are lighter and more highlighted which give them a fluffier appearance and the landscape is more of a shadowy mass which gives it more of a weighted feel. I think this piece evokes the emotions of tranquility and peacefulness. Through the calming colors and the way the elements blend into each other, it really evokes a feeling of calmness.
