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Portfolio

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  Orlando Mena  Artist Statement          The final project, on this final assignment we had to take every project we have made throughout the year with its artist Statement and present it by using a Portfolio. I enjoyed making this portfolio because it made me remember how much work I put in on this class. I chose a Portfolio layout where I could organize everything and make it look good. I chose a color combination that I really enjoy making it look simple and good. It was a long process putting every single project with its artist statement but it all came out fine.           Even though this was a long project, it was simple because everything was already made. I simply had to look for the correct order in which every project was and one by one design the page and add the projects to the Portfolio. Overall, I think I did really well in the projects and on this one too. I really enjoyed making all these projects even th...

Self Portrait

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Orlando Mena Self Portrait Artist Statement           In this task, I took a photo of myself and I needed to reproduce it by utilizing the brush device to fundamentally draw myself. I don't actually have many pictures of me, so I needed to take another image for this task. I think I could've executed this task better since, supposing that I'm straightforward it doesn't look just as I suspected. I needed to follow each body part in the photograph with detail to cause the last task to appear overall more appealing.         I think I could've improved in this task and yet, it was truly challenging and tedious for me. I must be extremely understanding with this undertaking since I needed to go delicately with each body part and some of the time it didn't work and I needed to begin from the start. With time and persistence, I made everything check out least nice and satisfactory. It was a truly troublesome undertaking for me in spite of the f...

Business card

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Orlando Mena  Mission Statement    For this task, we needed to make three distinct business cards. As somebody that is a business venture significant I truly appreciated making this project. In the first business card, I attempted to do my own variant of what the teacher introduced us to. I began playing with the pencil device tool and did a few waves to make a cool foundation for my logo. I am truly delighted with how my first business card ended up.    At first, I had my questions regarding what I needed for the following two business cards. I began playing with the foundations and with various shapes and everything looked great together and that was the manner by which the second business card was made. I truly loved the delightful way it ended up and it was without anybody's assistance. For the last business card, I think of it as my top pick. I truly like the shadings that I added and the way everything looks. Generally, I truly liked my business cards and ...

BW to color

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 Orlando Mena Artist Statement            On this assignment, I had to take a picture of myself and color the background with different colors. I don't have pictures of myself, meaning I had to get creative and look around where I could take a picture with a good background. I found a spot beside the bride on the riverwalk which I really liked and took the picture. Then I used photoshop to edit the picture and make it different colors.                I chose the colors that I wanted for each time that I had to do it and started playing with the pictures trying to find which colors looked best. I colored the bridge, water, rail, grass, hat, shirt, and sky. When I finished coloring everything I lowered the opacity of the colors to make the picture look better. Overall I think I did well. 

InDesign

 Orlando Mena 3 videos of InDesign  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eqhUFRlvgI             In this video, we can perceive how the configuration is really like photoshop. In this video, they show you how you can choose frames and supplement the photos on the frames that you desire. It clarifies how you can be shrewd and put together many pictures in the frames that you have. They clarify how InDesign is additionally useful for altering texts. You can likewise change the size of the text in the casings. In the video, they made a food blog that looks exceptionally cool. InDesign in this video resembles a straightforward device to utilize. 2.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VpAisbfldI           In this video, he discloses how to make a text and alter it towards where you like it the most. From what I see InDesign resembles a basic instrument where you can alter photographs and texts. He likewise discl...

Autoscopy

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 Orlando Mena Autoscopy Artist Statement        In this venture, I began by checking out a portion of the photos that the educator introduced as thoughts for the task and I tracked down an extremely dim picture on an oceanside with a skull. I truly enjoyed the photograph, I began to play with it until I tracked down how to combine my face with the skull for it to look great. I opened my mouth to the image of myself for me to look better once the photos were blended. I grew up adoring the motion pictures from Pirate of the Caribbean, so when I saw this photograph I realized I could assemble something around it.       When I wrapped up consolidating my face with the skull which was essentially the troublesome aspect I proceeded to play with the haziness of the photos for it to look dull and better. Then, at that point, I began searching for more photographs to add, and I observed a skeleton sitting just as a skeleton banner. I needed to make bo...

Calligram

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Orlando Mena  Calligram Project                     Hi, it's me but 20 years younger, I hope life is treating us well, I have high hopes for what I’m going to accomplish in 20 years. First, I want to be in the process of starting a family, and hopefully, I have a wife or a girlfriend. I hope that 20 years from now I have grown as a person and have become a successful entrepreneur. Right now you’re a student from the University of Tampa, trying to become a successful entrepreneur. It’s just the beginning of my journey to become successful and it has been hard. There is a lot of work and exams that I must do, and it all seems to be happening very fast. It can be stressful, but I think that in the long run, it will all be worth it. It’s a little different from what I’m used to, I live alone, and I’m not in my hometown which can be weird sometimes but I’m getting used to it. In 20 years from now, I hope I have my own business ...