Final Reflection

1. The most difficult part of this stage of the project was deciding how I wanted to distort my picture. It was hard to decide whether I wanted to make many small tweaks or make a huge change to the image. It was also difficult trying to figure out what pictures I was going to use to change the picture.

2. One area that I could use some improvement is the hair near my ear on the left. That was in the original picture, but I was not able to figure out how to fix it. I could have fixed it by using the band-aid.

3. The thing I like best about my monster face one is the eyes. I like how my eyes are too big for my face, but the problem is not huge when you glance at it at first. I like how I was able to have the eyes look like they were able to match with the face.

4. My greatest accomplishment with my picture was how I was able to fix my lips. My lips were very chapped in the picture, but then I used the band-aid to make them look more smooth. Learning how to use the band-aid is a great tool that can be used in many different areas.

5. I was able to bend and twist the shape of this picture by distorting the right shoulder. I believe that it is hard to tell at first glance that the shoulder is not normal, but once you look at it you can tell that there is something wrong with it.

1. I was trying to communicate a nature theme to my picture. I used green and snakes and a forest background to emphasize the nature theme. Some of my body parts were made of snakes to show that people are a part of nature.
2. My biggest struggle with stage 2 of my monster project was trying to make the body of my person. Finding an outfit that was big enough and made sense was very hard. Trying to create arms and a neck was also very difficult because I was not sure what to make them out of. Human arms and necks would not match well into the picture.
3. My biggest accomplishment with stage 2 was creating the neck. I found it very difficult to try to find anything that would become a neck. When I looked for human necks, they weren't from the front profile or they were too small. I eventually decided that I needed a neck that was not from a human. I believed that snakes might be able to make a neck, so I looked for a snake image. When I found one, the snake did not match in term of color. I ended up finding a human neck that I set as a background so that the color would match more.
4. I think my final grade should be an A because I continuously looked for ways to improve my project and I learned from my mistakes. When images wouldn't work, I would figure out why they didn't fit well together and avoid the same problem. I experimented with different colors and tried to put my knowledge of computer art into the work. I was able to use many different tools and use the new skills I learned.