The truth is out there.

For this assignment, I initially thought that I wanted to use a movie. After seeing a previous post re-creating Snow White, I toyed with the idea of using my own favorite Disney/folk tale movie: Sleeping Beauty. Then, I re-considered going with a grittier theme like in my four icons post.

The grittier theme idea lead to a spookier idea, and I was instantly reminded of my favorite television show. I discovered The X-Files at an older age than most (mostly because I was only 1-2 when the show originally began airing) but quickly fell in love with the mythos of the show as a whole as well as the clever, eerie individual episodes. Scully is a personal hero of mine with her intelligence, beauty, strength, and courage, and forget Californication–David Duchovny is only Fox Mulder in my eyes!

Without quick access to Photoshop, I started this piece on the Pixlr editor. I laid down a gray-green background to echo the alien aspect of the TV show, and then I put my own spin on the show’s logo. I emphasized the flying saucer shape to further the alien feel, added bold text in PowerPoint (the Pixlr editor doesn’t allow me to add text, which is apparently a commonly-reported bug), and a vignette effect.

Viola–spooky, 90s minimalism!

Cartoon The Head

I am going to take you through my journey for this design assignment, I started by looking for pictures of cartoons. I didn’t know what I was looking for exactly, naturally I began to procrastinate and look at pictures of cars. It is amazing how the human brain works. I was in my room upstairs, I could hear a faint noise coming from the basement, upon further investigation, I found out my siblings were watching Madagascar! Bam, I got my idea for the assignment. I wanted to use the giraffe from Madagascar. 

So I went to google and typed in Madagascar giraffe. I downloaded the first image that I could find.

This image can be found on the following link: http://madagascar.tribute.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Melman.jpg. Anyways, the next part of the assignment is to find a celebrity. Once again, I began my search on Google, and I typed in:

I clicked on the Forbes link and found out for the year 2014, Beyoncé was ranked the World’s Most Powerful Celebrity. I used the picture that Forbes used:

This image can be found on http://www.forbes.com/sites/dorothypomerantz/2014/06/30/beyonce-knowles-tops-the-forbes-celebrity-100-list/. Then, I took the giraffes picture and pasted it on Beyoncé’s face and came up with this! Please enjoy!!

Design a Reading Poster.

As a child, I grew up to the music stylings of 50 Cent. Though at times his lyrics were vulgar, I admired his life story more. He was a man who lived his life through great adversity and has triumphed. He was raised by a mother who worked as a drug dealer. She died when he was only 8 years old.

As a young boy, he was forced to sell drugs to make money for basic necessities. In 2000, an attempt was made on his live. After the failed attempt, 50 Cent began to grow his career. Through all of that adversity, he was able to make music. He is now worth $140 million dollars. He is both a music and business tycoon. I believe he is a good figure to preach about the importance of reading and working hard. I found this image by typing “50 Cent Reading” on Google.

Afterwards, I used the native application on Apple to edit the picture. Using preview, I was able to add text to the picture. I have outlined the step in the following picture.

I used the blue highlighted box to insert the text into the picture. Then I used the following boxes to change the color of the text. I hope you enjoy.

The original photograph can be found on:

http://realtalkny.uproxx.com/2009/10/topic/topic/beef/50-cent-responds-to-fabolous-questioning-his-intentions-with-uniting-ny/

This photo was an easy choice for me as the Quarter-finals for the World Cup are going on. Today Brazil and Colombia are playing at 4:00pm on ESPN. I found this picture on the big picture website. The link to the original picture is located on http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2014/06/2014_world_cup_goalposts_around_the_world.html. I used the native application on Apple to edit the picture. Using preview, I was able to add text to the picture. I have outlined the step in the following picture. 

In the text box image with the “Aa,” I added “Goal!!!” to the picture. In that same drop down menu, I was able to change the color also to lime-green.