Andy Warhol Pop Art Project

1. The best thing about my art work is the amount of different shades or spots where colors were changed. The reason that I say this is because it is more diverse but was harder to keep color in certain spots.
2. the weakest thing about my art work are the little spots in the picture that have remained black and white, this is my fault for using a picture with such are large detailed background which caused it to have many different shades of both white and black.
3. The way that the weakest part of my art work can be improved is by using a image that doesn't have this many shades and I could try to align the images themselves more.
4. The true Photoshop tools that I used to create this image were the crop tool, paintbrush tool and the magic wand tool.
5.  The way that I was able to select the colors with ease was by using the magic wand tool.
6.  The thing that was incredible easy with this assignment was most of the work because of the step by step directions.
7. The hardest thing about this assignment was at least for me  because of the image was trying to fill in the spots that weren't yet colored in, this was difficult because of the amount of different shades of whites and blacks.
8. If I could do this assignment again I would most definitely pick a different picture with a solid background. Another thing that I would do differently would be to use different colors instead of the ones I used here. 
9. On scale of 1-10 i would give myself a 7, the reason that I gave myself this rating is because it really could be any number because this was a series of just following directions step by step.

Sugar Skull

The colors that i'm going to choose are more of Halloween colors, like blue and black. The symbol that I'm going to choose is a spider to emphasize the Halloween ascetic. Another symbol that I want to add would be to add a bat symbol. The reason that I say I want a Bat symbol for the other symbol is because I want to have symbols that have somewhat relevance with Halloween ad such. Since I am going for this idea,I will also be using a broom as one of the patterns or symbols that i'll include.  One other symbol that I might use are the pumpkin symbols or scare crow marks.

 1. The best thing about my art work would be the spider symbols on the face because it's one of the best things that can represent Halloween. The reason that I say this is because I feel like it is the best representation on spookiness on the skull.
2.  The weakest thing about my art work would be the fact that some of the items/ symbols are not symmetrical with each other. I say this because if everything was in fact symmetrical the piece itself would probably way smoother and clean.
3. The way that I could improve on the unsymmetrical problems is by copying and pasting the symbols I will have twice in the piece on opposite sides and such.
4.  The tools in illustrator that I used to create this piece are the paint brush tool, gradient tool, move tool, select tool , pen tool and zoom tool.
5.  The way that you can make an illustration in illustrator is by using certain templates, brushes and maybe some images that can be found in google. The way that I was able to achieve this goal was that I did all things that I listed previously.
6. The easiest thing about this assignment was tracing over the skulls face. The reason that I say this is because it was really too hard to just go around the skull and click even though with my trace it really isn't exact.
7. The hardest thing about this assignment was the fact that didn't ask how to do certain things so then I ended up doing a lot of mouse drawings with the addition of google drawings.  Specifically the hardest thing about this assignment would be trying to make certain things symmetrical without copying them.
8. If I were to do this assignment again I would work on the weaknesses that I had like the symmetricalness of this particular piece. I would also try to actually add  more of things that I talked about in the  brainstorm above, that would definitely make feel more pleased about it.

9. Out of a 1-10 I would rate my  work as a 8. The reason that I rate it as such is that I put a lot of effort in the piece and tried to substitute certain abilities that I wasn't able to do or more so I didn't know how to do. The other reason that I rate my work as 8 instead of anything higher is the fact that didn't do much of the things that I said  I would do in the brainstorm.