Simoney Baloney's Art Blog

For my logo, I chose to reimagine the 21 Pilots logo. I first put in a picture of vintage flying/pilot's goggles. Then, I found a cool font and put it into the lenses of the goggles. I decided to do this because I like 21 pilots, and I had the idea to use vintage flying goggles because of the band name, 21 Pilots.

This assignment was focused on making a formal or informal balance "painting". I chose to do formal, or symmetrical balance. I first put a bunch of colors on the canvas, then blended them together. I selected a new layer, then traced the girls with umbrellas. I erased the section under them to look like it was raining color.

For this "street art" assignment, we chose different backgrounds, such as brick, cement, wood, etc. I chose to represent someone's inner feelings of not being good enough. I am trying to speak to all the people who have low self-worth and feel alone. I used a stencil to draw the person, then I "painted" the lettering.

This assignment, unlike the others, was done in ArtRage. First, I colored the background blue and purple, then, i imported an image of a cat as a stencil. I used the "airbrush tool" to fill in the stencils. It was hard to keep the cats even, but I think I did a pretty good job.

The Rothko inspired assignment was so fun! I used ArtRage to make this, so it was fun to experiment with new tools and applications. I first started with a layer of pinks, yellows, and orange. I blended them together, then added turquoise and dark blue. I enjoyed this project, so I hope you do too!

For this project, we chose a celebrity that had an animal name. As you can see, I chose Michael J. Fox. I first selected a photo of Michael Fox, then I selected a photo of a fox. Then, I placed the fox picture over Michael J. Fox's face. I blended the two layers together using a low opacity eraser to make it more "realistic".

I had so much fun with this assignment because it incorporated drawing and digital art. I drew this baby dragon a while ago, and I thought it would be perfect for this assignment. I traced my pencil drawing with felt-tip pen, then scanned it onto a flash-drive. Then, I put the drawing in Photoshop, and used different techniques to color it in.

This assignment took a while, but it was really fun. I took my characters and background from the cartoon scene, and used a similar storyline. Luckily, I didn't have to remake the characters every slide, thanks to Photoshop. Hope you enjoy!