"Believe in yourself and your imagination will bring you happiness and sunshine" - Keno

Blog Reflection: 

1. My concept is that my I M A G I N A T I O N is boundless. I arrived at this idea by breaking myself down and identifying the most prominent components of myself. My image relates because the character's brain is out and pulsing, and the characters eyes are enlarging in wonder. Also I added the animated words "IMAGINE" to further convey my theme of imagination. 
2. My GIF didn't start out this way. I first started with the same face but wanted it to melt, but then that was negative, so I morphed my idea slightly to be positive. With Photoshop it would also be easier to create an image that doesn't chance size, but moves around the page like the brain. Making a melting face would simply take more time than the project allows. 

Jif peanut butter

This is my friend Danny, he went all the way down on his squat but the gif cuts off before that so yea.

This piece is playfully titled: Normal Day

1. The concept: My concept is the absurdity of everyday life, how things can get so crazy all the time so they seem to blend in with our every day lives. This is demonstrated by my mixing of otherworldly images with a Broad st background

3. I am very happy with the results!

4. Here are a few photos I edited to produce the final product.

5. I first made the street picture my background and then duplicated it so there were two layers. Then I took a photo of outer space and made it a layer between the two so it was invisible. Then I used a polygonal lasso tool to select the sky around the building on the right and then deleted it so that the space was showing. Then I took a picture of the cartoon spaceship and selected it so I could paste it onto my picture. I then resized it to fit my tastes. Then I selected a triangle coming from the ship and used the paint bucket to make it green. Then I changed the opacity to 38% so you could see the background and the man in the beam of the spaceship. Then I selected a picture of Barney the dinosaur and pasted him into my picture. After, I resized the image and put him in the shadows. Next I did the exact same thing with an alien I found online, but put him standing on the grate. After that, I copied a picture of a hole in the ground and selected roughly around the edges. Then I pasted it into my project and zoomed in to put it in the perfect position. While still zoomed in, I used the lasso tool to erase small edges, and then I intensely blurred the edges so it blended with the ground. Then I copied the tentacle (pictured above) and pasted it. Then I resized it and placed it on the hole image. Then I used the blur tool again to make the tentacle appear as if it was coming out the hole. I also changed certain lightings/contrasts of certain images. I probably left out other tools and steps that I used in this project but thats basically a summary of how I made this. 

Keno Burckhardt

Reflection:
Answer the following questions. Remember, this will help me understand your design while I grade your project. 

Describe your process. How was the process helpful or not so helpful to you? Show us your brainstorming ideas and thumbnail sketches. How did you arrive with your concept/idea for your letter? Did the peer feedback help? Show us your brainstorming ideas, thumbnail sketches, and two drafts. 

What did you do to represent your concept visually in your design? (Give 2 examples and post close up and full design images) 

What was the most challenging aspect of this project for you? Why?

Are you satisfied with your project?   Explain your answer.

If you can change anything about your design, what would you change or do different  

1. My process: At first my thumbnail sketches were very flowy and I freehanded it, however when I started to draw my final I used a ruler to be more precise. This changed the dynamic of my piece completely. It became less about the musicality and more about the instrument itself. In short, my process changed the theme/vibe of my piece.  Peer feedback didn't help at all because I knew from the start exactly what I wanted to portray. 

2. The most challenging part of the project was using time efficiently. I had a ton of time consuming sketching to do before anything else. I had to measure out each length and make sure it was the same as the other little cylinders. This took so much time that I was left with very little to color and prefect the drawing. 
3. I am pretty satisfied with my project. I love the vibe it gives off because it reminds me of Peru, however I think it could really be made better with more detailing and outlining the blue background. 
4. If I could change anything about my design I would add yarn strings on the instrument to make the drawing more complex. I like it but I would definitely like to see more overlapping of the individual bamboo reeds and the woven yarn. Otherwise I like the outcome. 
5. (which is actually #2 I skipped it). I used the Zampona, which is a pan flute type thing native to Peru and neighboring South American countries. I shaped the Zampona into the shape of a Z. This was harder than it looked bc I had to conceive what length each connecting reed would be because some lengths had to be different. I also used a lot of color in the yarn to communicate the warmth and happiness of the Peruanos I met in Peru. 

KENO BURCKHARDT FIRST POST !

my name is keno burckhardt in 3 years i will be 20 years old. in 90 years I will most likely be dead. i enjoy skateboarding soccer and being at a gym. over the summer i did some fun things.
 

THis is a soccer ball! This is what you use to play the game soccer and it is what I used to prepare for my season as captain of the soccer team.

This is the Bugatti that I woke up in one morning. Over the summer my dad taught me how to drive illegally because I don't have my permit but I still drove because I am cool and don't care about the law.