Generative Art

This week for my Digital Art class at The University of Toledo we used three different online applications to create our own unique artwork.

Scribbler: Scribbler was the first online website I used. I found scribbler very easy to use when drawling the original picture, but found it frustrating that you could not save the image along the way; actually you aren't able to save it at all. I was surprised the only way you could 'save' your final image was by taking a screenshot our your computer screen. That just takes more time; time that I do not really have with a newborn. Overall I liked scribbler because it was not to complex. I choose to create the image of a bunch of flowers and a cat. I choose to keep them both black scribbles because I thought it really helped the picture pop. I took me several different times to get a final result that I liked. Overall I am pleased with my final outcomes and enjoyed this very simple to use website.

 

Scribbler Too: The next online website I used it called Scribbler Too. It is an advanced version of of the scribbler website I wrote about above. I love how they added the 'save' feature to this website. It makes it very easy to save your image along the way. Also another great update to this Scribbler Too is that it offers the ability to upload a photo and draw/scribble over it. That feature is awesome and allowed me to create such awesome images. Another thing I like about Scribbler Too was the wider variety of brush tools. With more options of brush tools, it allows everyone to use and create a lot of different scribbled effects. I choose the use a picture of a butterfly and a flower for my first photo. I used various amounts of fuzziness and diameters to create a fuzzy effect over the butterfly only. I think that really makes the photo pop, rather than have scribbling the entire photo. The second photo I chose to recreate is my rocket ID photo of myself. I was unsure of how successful this would turn out, but I think overall it turned out great! You can really see the volume in this photo and it kind of actually looks like me.

 

Flame: Flame is the third online website we used for this weeks assignment. Flame is a lot different than the first two websites we used above. Flame is an online site where you basically drawl with fire. I found this site to be a lot of fun to play around with and it was definitely my favorite site of the three. I created two images that reflect all of the love I have for my son. The first picture is of a heart, representing the one of a kind love I have for my son. For this image I used various brush sizes and blue/green gradients. I also varied the amount of 'noise' in the strokes. The second picture is of my sons name, Mason. This image took me awhile to perfect, and this is my favorite of all of them that I did with his name. I used a smaller stoke to write his name and a bigger stroke to create the background. I again used blues and greens for this picture because I think they will be his favorite colors (but we'll see about that, lol). For the blue in the background I used a bigger stroke and added more 'noise' to the stroke. Overall, I love the results of these images. They are something special to me because they showcase how much I love my son.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by my blog and taking the time to check out my artwork.









Mason Lee

I had my son Sunday, October 11th, 2015. Mason Lee Breininger. He came into this world at 5:43pm, weighing in at 9lbs 6oz and 21 1/4 inches long. He is such a bundle of joy and I love him with all my heart. He is such a handsome little man and loves to cuddle.
It has been so hard to keep up with a full time school schedule and I am definitely stressed out to the max... but at the end of the day it is all worth it; I wouldn't change a single thing.

Video MashUp

 

For the project this week in my digital arts class at The University of Toledo we were to take our audio from last week, made on soundations.com, and make a video smashup. A video smashup is basically taking multiple pre-existing videos on the internet and cutting bits and pieces of the videos to make one final project. While completing this project, it was a little difficult at times, but it was also kind of fun and I really enjoy the outcome of all my hard work.

The videos I chose to use for my video smashup are mainly from a website called archive.com. I found archive.com easy to use because you did not have to sign up to download any of its contents. However, I did find it a little difficult to find exactly what I wanted at times. I think archive.com could do a better job categorizing their videos. The only video clips I did not get from archive.com were the ones of the cat. I got the video of the cat off of YouTube and was very happy to find out that downloading and saving videos on YouTube is very easy.

For editing my video mashup I used Windows Movie Maker. As a class we were first instructed to use a website called FileLab.com, and I do not recommend this website to anyone. I’m a rather smart girl, and after literally almost two hours, I gave up on trying to download the stupid thing. (Well I should that it had downloaded successfully several times, but the website never opened like it should have.) With that being said, I was happy to see that Windows Movie Maker was easy to download and really easy to use. When editing I just added the clips I wanted and placed them accordingly to my audio. The cat video is the only video I really had to cut and paste. All of the cat clips are from the same video, so I had to cut out certain sections of the video to make my smashup. Cutting and “splitting” the video was not hard to do at all… the only thing that was difficult was trying to time out how much of each clip I needed.

Overall I feel like I was rather successful making my first ever video mashup. After getting an editing software to download I had a lot of fun creating it. The video clips of the cat are my favorite because they are just so random; but random is good when creating a video mashup. I can’t really say I would change anything about my project, because I like the outcome of it… but maybe if I could have taken more time on it, it may have turned out better. BUT I have a baby coming this week and a full time class schedule, so I’m trying to complete as much work as I can now so I don’t fall behind.

Almost Time

What another crazy week. Had a baby appointment on Wednesday and found out that I was still not dilated at all... Such a stubborn little boy I have already, lol. So to make sure he was still doing okay they sent me down to the women's center to run tests on him. They hooked my tummy up to a monitor that tracked him heart rate and movement. Although I was a little scared at first because I was all alone, I knew my little man would pass with flying colors; and he did. It is so good to know that end though he is over his due date he is still healthy and doing good.
With that being say, I am very tired of being pregnant, and was happy to hear that they are inducing me Sunday night/Monday morning. I am low-key beyond scared, but I know everything will be alright once I have my son in my arms. So I have my fingers cross that my son will finally make his appearance Monday and for it to be an easy and quick delivery.
P.S. - My dad has been home from the hospital for about three weeks now and is doing great. Unfortunately he has awhile before he can return back to work, but he has been very nice company. I have been taking care of him a lot, and do not mind doing so because he has done so much for me in the past.

The Waiting Game

It is absolutely crazy to think that tomorrow will be the first day of October. The month I have been waiting for ALL YEAR. Not only because fall is my favorite season. Not only because I love going to Leaders Family Farm's and getting completely scared in their haunted corn maize, Screamacres. Not only because I love watching the leaves change colors and fall to the ground. BUT because it almost time for my little man to make his appearance. I never thought I could love someone so much, but I do. I am completely in love with this bundle of joy I have been carrying around with me for the past 9 months, and I can not wait to hold him in my arms and spoil him with my love.
Although with that being said, he's being a little suborn, just like his daddy, lol. My doctor told me this week that I will likely go over my due date, maybe even as much as a week over my due date. This news was almost overwhelming to me, because I am SO over being pregnant. My baby is completely healthy and ready to go whenever he wants... he just must be really cozy in my tummy.

Baby Booming

My latest assignment for my Digital Arts class at the University of Toledo was to create an audio mashup using soundation.com. I found this website very easy to use after watching a few tutorials on youtube. With that being said, I highly enjoyed this assignment and recommend soundation.com to anyone who is interested in learning how to make background music and/or DJ'ing type music.
I found this assignment especially fun because my brother and his friends are big into making their own music like this. It was neat to be able to create something similar to what they do, even though their audio editing is way more complex and high-tech than what I have created.
As for the name of my soundtrack, I just wanted to keep it with the theme of my blog. It was the first thing that popped in my head, which might be due to the fact that I saw someone post on Facebook yesterday that 2015 must be the new baby boom, lol.

Onesie Typology

This week for my Digital Art class at the University of Toledo we learned about typologies. We were to shoot a series of photos and create our own typology. This assignment is inspired by the work of Hilla and Bernd Becher who took a series of photos of industrial sites and made a grid display of the resulting images.
For my typology I chose to shoot of series of onesies. To put all 16 images together and create the final project I used Pixlr's Advanced Photo Editor. With tutorials on how to complete this assignment I found Pixlr very easy to understand. I found it interesting how drastically the background color changed in all of the pictures. The background is actually a baby blue blanket, but some of these images would convince you otherwise; but I think the different colored backgrounds is really neat and helps your eye bounce around the entire image even more. Overall I was very happy with how this project turned out, and  makes me even more excited for my son to get here! Did I mention there's less than two weeks until my due date?