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Alternative Book Cover

I created this book cover to represent that there is a day-side and night-side of the book. In the dark side of the city are the vampires who run rampant in the night in the moonlight. As for the light side of the city, shows Robert Neville where he runs during the day in the sunlight.

Character Design

Here I put my Character’s design in a house where he has to hide in during the nights. Why I put him in there is because it is home base and where he works. He watches the world from his window at night to avoid vampire contact.

Choose Your Own Design

Pokemon:

I really wanted to do this because I loved collecting Pokemon cards as a child. Now I was able to make my character into a card with a his set of abilities! Why I chose gun sling as a move is because Robert carries a gun when he’s in the city. I made an ability quick think because Robert is able to get himself out of very tough situations.

Martha’s hat:

I got this idea of a poster was from seeing missing dog posters that come along with phone number strips. The important of the hat to Martha is equivalent to losing one’s beloved pet.

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Lena The Pokemon

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This assignment was titled “Pokemon Card” and it’s worth 3 stars. I completed this assignment as my character, Lena. Here’s the link to the assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/pokemon-card/

When I first saw this assignment, it made me laugh a little. I remember being an avid Pokemon card collector when I was younger. I had binders full of cards and took great pride in my collection. So, why not make my own? Except I made one for my character, Lena. Here are the logistics:
Type – Grass
Serie – 1st generation
Hit points – 100 HP
Evolution – Basic
Attack 1: Mind Reading – Read your opponents next move and be able to avoid it without any damage.
Attack 2: Kindness – Kill them with kindness. Give them a compliment, a smile, or even puppy dog eyes…whatever it takes. Instantly disables all opposing attack mechanisms.
Weakness – Fighting
Resistance – Psychic
Retreat Cost – 1

I created this card using a program called http://www.mypokecard.com/en/ I got to play around with all of the different settings for my character as well as basic design. It was great to be able to personalize it and make it specific to Lena. The picture that I used for this card is a picture of a woman meditating. This is meant to depict Lena because not only does it fit the description on the card, but she also loves yoga and meditating. Here’s the final product:

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Remix: An Art Critic Reviews My Pokemon Card

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Artist Comments: Strongbad is the essence of my rage. When I am angered by the Internet, by ignorant people working in tech or the gaming industry or other things I love that are known for being sexist, racist, transphobic, and all the other Bad Things, when something is unfair, when I speak up for myself and no one listens. That is when Strongbad is unleashed. Strongbad has sarcasm and writing and will make you repent your injustices.

Pokemon template courtesy of http://www.mypokecard.com/en/

Critic Comments: On initial glance, Strongbad Pokemon Card appears to be a piece of juvenilia. The cartoon nature of the self-portrait, the minimalist icons, the simple, repetitive color scheme, the imbalanced layout. It all suggests an underdeveloped design skill, an unrefined taste. But ultimately rage is simple, unrefined. It is a base instinct. So to have a visual representation of rage, it must be emblematic of that nature. We see a lone figure on a barren white field. He is pugnacious, bright red, a caricature of anger. But also the truth of anger. Anger exaggerates just as a caricature does.

We can also see this in the chosen “energies” – the simple icons that adorn the card, the background color. Strongbad isn’t primarily fueled by fire as one might expect in an underdeveloped concept of anger. Strongbad is fueled by grass – by nature. Strongbad is a righter of wrongs, a defender against injustice, he stands up for those who are treated unfairly because of who they are. Their own natures. Strongbad is much more sophisticated than pure fire, though fire does fuel his more advanced anger, the fire of writing.

This piece was created for the DS106 remix assignment Pokemon Card: Stuffy Art Critic.

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My Very Own Pokemon Card :) Tres Stars

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The link to the assignment is right here… http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/pokemon-card/

So this assignment here was my very favorite one to do. I probably spent the most time on this, being fueled by a load of passion. I can remember spending an unearthly amount of time as a kid collecting Pokemon cards, and battling my buddies in games. We would all bring our cards to school and work on trades, gawk at our holographic edition cards, and duke it out. This assignment really brought me back to my childhood, and gave me a shot at really delving into my creative layer further than I have ever gone.
To start my Pokemon card creation, I downloaded a blank card template from the Interwebs to work from. I chose a Fire Card template because, well, they’re sweet. My next step was to get one of my most awesome self-shots from my computer and to upload that to Photoshop. I called upon the trusty Magnetic Lasso tool to select around the perimeters of my body that I wanted to cut out of this photo:

Cutting myself out was pretty easy. After I did this I cut and copied my selected self out of the original photograph and pasted it into the slide with the Card Template in it. I needed to reduce the size of myself to fit inside the picture space in the Pokemon Card. I did this by going to Image in the Settings bar up top, and went down to Image Size. Here, I reduced the size of the image so that it would fit better when I placed the cut out layer on top of the card template. With me so far? I hope so.

Next I downloaded a picture of awesome flames, courtest of paloetic on Flickr.

I dragged this over to the window with the Pokemon Card and proceeded to use the Clone Stamp Tool in order to clone the flames, and color in the background of the picture area on the card. This was pretty simple, just kind of time consuming, but very well worth it.

The next thing I did was to take the Magnetic Lasso again, and copy the round fire symbol at the top right of the card, and pasted four of those down below my picture. I used old Pokemon cards as my basis for creating this. The rest just included playing around with fonts and making up cool stuff about myself that sounded Pokemon-esque. The round Water symbol I got by extracting it the same as the fire symbol, but from another card, and pasted it into the card window. Anyways, this was the whole process, and I am super pumped that I could share with you all. I’d love feedback, comments, critiques, etc!! Happy blogging!

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Tunachu, I choose you.

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This was an absolute blast. A great one to finish my 15 stars with!! I grew up playing pokemon, but now I have graduated to a more mature hobby of saltwater fishing. Using my Pokecard I was able to combine my two hobbies into one. Check out Tunachu!!

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3 Stars: I choose you!

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So, for today’s assignment I chose to make a Pokemon card for a cool, breezy 3 stars. We had to choose a good picture of ourselves and imagine ourselves as a Pokemon.

Here is the Wino’s pokemon card. Abilities include my unique ability to not give a shit (note, not actually a unique ability). Also, I enjoy cooking/baking. Here’s something else I made today, although I did not injure myself today.

Hey girl, let me challah at you. HAHAHAHA I’M SO FUNNY AND ORIGINAL.

Gonna go through the steps it took for me to make the first masterpiece. First, I chose a card from this site. I heavily used the tutorial from G O’Brien’s blog here. It was not easy, but I really had a lot of fun messing around with the clouds feature in the filters-> render menu. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get the text at the top to work properly. I couldn’t quite remove just the text from the image. I think a better option for me to do would be to use the rectangle select tool and just delete the entire text top part and then try and replace the color with another cloud layer. But, alas, I didn’t have the foresight for that.

5/15 Stars down. I think the designs are getting better. Kind of wish I had saved this assignment for later in the week so I could keep improving. Oh well.

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Sexy Casper joins the ranks of the pokemon. By far my favorite…

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Sexy Casper joins the ranks of the pokemon. By far my favorite DS 106 assignment.

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10 Star Assignment #2

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Used paint.net. I took photo of me, the made rectangles, filled it with red, and used a font I liked. Then put a grunge layer over it all and dodged it in.

pokemon card, 3 stars

Found Pokemon template, Cropped out the unnecessary stuff, put a small photo of me, and used a good font.

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10 STARS OF ASSIGNMENTS (THIS WEEK)

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Inside me, 4 stars

Used paint.net. I took photo of me, the made rectangles, filled it with red, and used a font I liked. Then put a grunge layer over it all and dodged it in.

pokemon card, 3 stars

Found Pokemon template, Photoshopped out the unnecessary stuff, put a small photo of me, and used a good font.

ds 106 the movie, 3 stars

Took Silence Of The Lambs poster, got rid of text with color stamping, used a font similar to the original poster, found a Rated R logo and placed it on another layer.

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Design Assignment 2 Pokemon Card Worth 3 Stars

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Create a Pokemon card for yourself, what are your powers?

My pokemon card represnts the power of fight when it comes between me and my money and if anybody tries to mess with me I know how to defend myself and still look good doing it. I chose this pic to make the assignment more funny and interesting, i recently had used this picture for one of my visual assignments; take any picture and caption it with a meme. I used this picture and used the im rick james b**** meme. The way how i made this pokemon card I went to this website called http://tradingcardmaker.net/#generic-lv-x-pokemon-card-maker where I just designed everything in my own image. So I hope this card doesnt affend anybody, its all for laughs.