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Table of contents

Computer Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 . -11

Photography. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 . 27

inkblots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 . 37

About . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 38 . 39

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Tracing the Ballerina Emma

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Emma has been dancing since she wastwelve years old and is extremely dedicated.

Her and her four othersisters all dance Ballet at Ballet

5:8. They are a non-prot or-ganazation that brings worshipthrough the form of dance tothe community. She is a seniorthis year at the studio and will

be going to Pennsylvania forcollege in the upcoming fall.

She hopes to continue dancingand take up acting while she is

in school there.For this project we

are to trace a photo and addas much detail as possible tomake it seem realistic. Here I

have photographed my frienddancing and chose this photofor the pose and the shadowsand highlights.

As for the process of

this project, which was to takea photo and use Illustrator withthe pen tool to trace a photousing shapes. Everything that

is seen in the nished tracing(on page 7) and throughoutthe process is a shape. Fromthe oor to the ceiling tiles toEmma herself.

In the rst screenshot (step 1) is the simple

background. The oor is oneshape and the wall is another.The ceiling is one shape withmutliple shapes ontop of it. Theceiling is made of about eleven

tiles and two lights. Betweenthe lights there is about ten dif-

ferent shapes to make up bothlights.

I began capturing thebackground, the ceiling, walland oor. Then traced theceiling tiles and the lights andshapes around the lights and

the tile garter things.I then moved down the

wall (step 2) and traced theshadow and highlights from theceiling lights that are on the

wall. As well as the emergencylight that is in the backgroundon the wall. And the balletbarre.

I added the barre andthe mounts and the shadowsthat are casted onto the woodby the mounts and the shadowthat the wood itself casts onto

the wall. As well as the nailsand the different color textures

and knots that are in the wood.As for the main subject

(step 3) I began tracing her legsseparately and then moved upto the torso and arms and then

the hands and face and hair.In her right hand there aremany different areas of shad-ows and highlights and it wasdifcult with the colors that the

eye dropper was pulling up soin order to correct the super

darkness of the colors it usingI pulled back the colors by

changing the opacity to bringthem down to normal shadowhues.

I did the same for theright leg that has many different

shadows as well as her foot asthe slipper itself has many dif-ferent colors too.

The face and ear andeyes and neck (step 4-5) also

have an extensive amount ofshadow varations. The hair isall that still needs a lot moredetail.

I have the general colorof the different areas of the hairand now it is to add more glaresand brush streaks that are inthe hair.

The colors for someareas get corrected (step 6)

as the eye dropper tool pullssome strange choices through.Then the shades and opacity isaltered (step 7-8).

The FinalThe craft of this tracing

project was used with adobeillustrator and then the pen tooland the eye dropper to bringthe color in.

I went through andstarted with the backgroundand then moved from the ceil-ing down to the oor to the

barre to Emma from the foot upand then brought in the detailsof shadows and highlights.

The concept of thepiece is that it is this woman,

Emma dancing ballet. The com-position is in the photograph it-self and pose that she is doing.The point of the photo is to givethe feeling of the gracefulness

and poise.

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Step 2

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Original Photo Finished Product

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Craft: This was a photothat was taken a fewweeks ago. I took it into

to adobe Illustrator and tracedit piece for piece from ceiling tooor to barre to her foot to work-ing up to the top of her hand.I used the eye dropper to pull

in the skin/shoe/wall/etc. colorfor each area that was differentfrom the others.

Concept: I choose tochange the color of hertop half, hands and

head, and made them coolcolors. Although while dancing it

is very owy Emma in particularwas moving a bit more stify abit more slowly. The bottom halfare warmer colors because theexercise was concentrating on

leg movement. The movements


to adobe Illustrator and tracedit piece for piece from ceiling tooor to barre to her foot to work -ing up to the top of her hand.

I used the eye dropper to pullin the skin/shoe/wall/etc. colorfor each area that was differ-ent from the others. The differ-ence in this one was the use of

another effect.

Concept: This one waschosen because of thedisgurement of the

torso. It extends further out thanthe rest of the parts of her. Howmost of the pieces remain.

Feel

the

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were much more different than

others.

Composition: What myviewers should see rst

is Emma, in blue, herhands and head. It gives thefeels of stiffness. The feeling ofcontrolling the pose. The bottomhalf of warm colors are what the

viewer sees second. Theyrewarmer, more able to changeposition at any moment. Thecolor change is light, almost

looks like it hasnt changed atall but the slippers are clearlydifferent and the shadows andhighlights change.

Composition:The rstthing the viewer sees is

the disembodied torso. Itstands out more than the rest ofthe limbs. The second is that theviewer notices is the offset of he

working leg to the foot and the

wrinkles in the leotard remainwhere the torso once was. Thirdis the movement of the hair ontop of the head. Also the shad-

ows on the hands remain wherethey are giving a slight 3-d ef-fect or blurred motion that wascaptured.

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to adobe Illustrator and tracedit piece for piece from ceilingto oor to barre to her foot toworking up to the top of herhand. I used the eye dropper

to pull in the skin/shoe/wall/etc. color for each area thatwas different from the others.Also what was used for thisone was a effect on the barre

that changed the shape of thebarre.

Concept: The reason

I chose this one wasbecause the change

that occurred gave a modern

feeling to the picture. Its asimple change and does not

look like much is different at


to adobe Illustrator and traced

it piece for piece from ceiling tooor to barre to her foot to work-ing up to the top of her hand.I used the eye dropper to pullin the skin/shoe/wall/etc. color

for each area that was different

from the others. The change inthis was lines were brought inand changed the color of the

stroke to a patter and the thick-ness of the line was increased.

Concept:This waschosen because of the

stroke pattern. It contin-ued the patter throughout the

OverGrow

nPassion

Modern

Attitu

de

whole piece although each linewas not connected to one another.It crops the picture i n its own way.It only shows part of her face and

really controls what the viewersees.

C

omposition:The rst thingthe viewer sees is the pat-

tern and it takes their eye

all around the picture. The secondthing the viewer sees is the yellowthe looks as if it is creeping up her

face which crops it nicely to revealonly part of the expression onthe face. The third is the hiddenbarre behind her that has the mostchunk of the pattern in the whole

a quick glance. The fact thatthe change happened this wayalso can lend to the idea that

after one has practiced for l ongtimes at the barre and you havemastered your balance you canmove away from the barre.

Composition:The rstthing the viewer shouldsee is the dancer. She

stands easy and simple in thefront and the movement from

looking for her high hand movingdown leads the viewer to see herback right foot which leads theireye to the squares of t he once

positioned barre. Which is thesecond thing the viewer sees.After seeing the barre the viewer

may notice the nal backgroundas the third but their eyes may

ow back to the barre.

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Photo by: ElizabethBennett Subject: EmmaTaken at Ballet 5:8 with

a Canon Rebel T3i. Cor-rected color and skin.

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Extension

Photo by: ElizabethBennett Subject: Emma

Taken at Ballet 5:8 witha Canon Rebel T3i. Cor-rected color and skin.

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Photo by: ElizabethBennett Subject: EmmaTaken at Ballet 5:8 with

a Canon Rebel T3i. Cor-rected color and skin.

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Awaken the GraveLets meet Awaken

the Grave, located out of New

Lenox, IL. They are a heavymetal band working their way upin the musical world.

The band originallystarted as two people. Thesetwo guys, Pat and Mark, (farright Pat, middle left Mark), gottogether in their sophomore year

of high school in 2007. Both ofthem play guitar. They beganplaying just the two of them atAnother Hole in the Wall in Ste-

ger, IL.About a year later in

2008 Tayler joined as their bass-ist (far left). Billy joined the sametime as the drummer. He is nolonger part of Awaken the Gravetoday.

Gabe joined late in 2012as the singer and songwriter.As they collabarate on the lyricsfor some songs majority are his

own lyrics. They all the share thesame goal of making it big.

The band practicesabout three times a week if notmore and put together record-ings of their own for others tohear on facebook.

They have played aboutve shows as a full band. Onebasement show, one at a bar inMidlothian, and three at Another

Hole in the Wall.They hope to nd some-

one for a new drummer soonto begin playing shows again.They hope to nd other venuesto play at more in the city.

Go tofacbook.com/AwakenTheGraveto check them out!

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Mark and Patthe Guitarists

These are the guitaristsof Awaken the Grave. These two

started the band back in 2007.Mark is on the left and Pat is on

the right.This photo was cropped

from a larger photo. The originalphoto had nothing else going on init except for Pat and Mark.

I chose to keep the colordetail of their guitars in the blackand white photo because theyboth care deeply, as a guitaristdoes, about their instruments.

Looking at the photo it almostlooks like a mirror of the sameperson. This photo was taken witha Canon Rebel T3i and photo-

shopped.

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Let

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Bang

This is an image takenat one of the bands shows atAnother Hole in the Wall.

I chose to add this

photo to my magazine becausethe placements of the members

are perfectly positioned. (Begin-ning left to right) Mark is up front(left) yet slightly behind Gabe(second right), Tayler (second

left) is farthest back, and Pat(far right) is medium front be-

tween Mark and Gabe.This photo was taken

with a cannon rebel t3i up frontin the crowd and slightly off

center. With the photo in blackand white, although most of the

photo is black, band membersdraw attention to themselves.Each is equally black but theguitars/bass or even hair brings

lighter color to draw the eyefrom person to person.

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In the

Spotlight

This is Gabe the singerof Awaken the Grave. Gabejoined the band in late 2012.This photo was taken at a show

at Another Hole in the Wall inSteger Illinois.

Gabe is positionedalone in the center of the image.

He is leaning slightly forwardwhile screaming into the micro-phone. This image was photo-shopped only a bit. The back-ground was fully blacked out to

take away any noise.The brightness was

brought in with the red color.The light opens up the outlineof his silhouette. The red behind

him, mostly on the left (his right),brings a different splash of colorto the photo from the black andwhite (in his shirt). This photo

was taken with a Cannon RebelT3i.

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Mirrored Fetuses

These inkblots weremade in the summer of 2012.

Everyone knows the processfor making your own inkblots.Grab some paper, any sixeyou desire, grab some ink and

splatter that all over the paperto your hearts desire. Fold thatpaper in half, although I sup-pose you dont always need to.

The paper used regular drawing paper, 18

inches. This one was foldhalf and the image of alibabies came through. It las though as they are co

ed in the middle yet sepaby something, maybe a bof cords. Maybe these aristic twin babies separate

oating in their own bubb

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Bored Creepy Sleepy Baby

These inkblots were

made in the summer of 2012.Everyone knows the process formaking your own inkblots. Grabsome paper, any sixe you de-

sire, grab some ink and splatterthat all over the paper to yourhearts desire. Fold that paperin half, although I suppose youdont always need to.

The paper used wasregular drawing paper, 18x24inches. This particular inkblotwas crumpled before the inkwas added and then folded

down the middle. The splatter-

ing was kept to a minimum.

What came out of thisone was the image a baby thatlooks as though they are bored-ly looking out at you with a yawn

so big that their jaw detachedfor the moment. The splattersaround them could be all thetoys and objects that they dis-carded from having played with

them so often. With its big wideblack eyes it looks at you asthough to say Theres nothingaround here what do you have

to do?

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Alien OctopusAttack! These inkblots weremade in the summer of 2012.Everyone knows the process formaking your own inkblots. Grabsome paper, any sixe you de-sire, grab some ink and splatterthat all over the paper to your

hearts desire. Fold that paperin half, although I suppose youdont always need to.

The inkblot here was

made with ink and metallic silveracrylic paint. This was folded inhalf and the rst experiment us -

ing acrylic paint as well. At rstI did not expect the paint and

ink to mix well enough to makea image. It worked out as a bitmore smeary and watery thanthe actual paint.

When the image wasfolded and pulled back I saw ahuge octopus with a part bodybeing formed. In the center ofthe image you can see the head

of the octopus. With huge al-mond shaped eyes in the centerand the smeared drips down thecenter near the bottom of thehead that starts to almost form a

body.On the sides of the pa-

per you can see the curved dotsthat form a set of arms of the

octopus that are coming out tograb you! A possible second setof arms could be between thehead and the side arms reach-ing back behind the octopus.

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Sumptuous

Sublime

Squid

These inkblots weremade in the summer of 2012.Everyone knows the process for

making your own inkblots. Grabsome paper, any sixe you desire,grab some ink and splatter thatall over the paper to your heartsdesire. Fold that paper in half,

although I suppose you dontalways need to.

This inkblot protrays asquid rising out of the center of

the page. As though she hassome important tasks to takecare of she rises with her eyespartly closed as thought she islooking down her nose at the

other sea creatures that surroundher.

Beneath her eyes is ahuman nose shape and then a

mouth. Her lips look colored andplumped, almost like a duck faceis being made. Also it looks asthough she is pointing her shoul-ders. Or as if she is wearing

something to make her shoul-ders look pointy and important.

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Photo by: Kaylynn Mayeld 2012

About the Artist My name is ElizabethBennett. I am 21 years old andthis is my rst school year (12-

13) at Saint Xavier University.I went to high school at

Lincoln-Way Central and thenspent three years at Joliet Ju-nior College where I nished the

majoirty of my general educa-tion requirements.

I am a Graphic Designmajor here at SXU. Outside of

classes when I have spare timeI really enjoy to create anything.For the summer I plan on creat-ing props for my Senior Seminarproject next school year (13-

14). I also plan on creating atree from dead pointe shoes. Iam currently collecting shoes tomake that project happen.

I hope you enjoyed my

magazine for Computer Graph-ics Spring 2013.All photos andcover were created by me andare copyrighted.

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aknowledgmentsI would like to thank the

band Awaken the Grave andits members: Pat, Mark, Tayler,Billy, and Gabe for allowing me

to take photos of their showsand use them in this magazinefor school.

Also I would like tothank Ballet 5:8 for allowing me

to come in during classes tophotograph my friend Emma,

who I would also like to thankfor allowing to potograph her fora school project.

As well as my friendKaylynn Mayeld for letting me

use her photo in my magazine.Thank you so much to

all who were involved in lettingme use you as subjects in myphotos.

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