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Artist Statement    The logo that I’m reusing for my Tagbrush project in Photoshop is the sunflower logo. In the Photoshop app, I added some new techniques to give the logo a complete, new makeover.    The picture was originally used for a past project, where I drew a sunflower to be drawn on my forehead as my personal logo. As I have mentioned before, the sunflower resonates with the qualities and values I have. Sunflowers are associated with happiness, bubbliness, and sunshine. Most of the time, I get told that I remind others of sunflowers because of how I am. These are traits that I wish to portray when I’m around my friends and family, therefore I decided that this specific flower would symbolize who I am as a person.    In the Photoshop app, while learning to use new tools, I changed the logo. In this version, the sunflower has a grungier, street vibe due to the new brushes I used. With this makeover, the sunflower has a new meaning. I believe this te...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnSAnAolpmI -I believe the easiest tool to use presented in this video is the type of tool because it only needs a click to work and does not require any special skills, being easy to find and use. I think the tool as is the hardest to use is the Image Adjustment, not because it is difficult but because it has many options that I believe will confuse users sometimes. I might use these tools to edit and image and add text to create posters or important projects. I find interesting how in this video the instructor talks about different tools than the ones in the other videos.      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZACwQzj7TQ   -I believe that the easiest tool to use will be the Patch tool because as the video explains it, it seems simple and self-explanatory. I don’t think the tools explained in this video are hard to use but sometimes the instructor uses the keyboard to explain some techniques, making it seem confusing to keep up ...

An image from “The People’s Portfolio” that brough me close to my emotions is the one of the little girl with a shirt saying “Free my dad” in the “US Immigration: Families Torn Apart” folder. Here, the little girl and the shirt portrays a message that her father has been taken by ICE or the United States government because that man is an immigrant. The little girl’s face demonstrates the emotion that are going through her head, mostly sadness, over her father missing. I cannot express how important a father is in a young girl’s life. To this day, I will never understand the discrimination the United government places on immigrants, who are only looking for a better life with better opportunities. This image made me feel emotionally because I could not imagine a life without my father, especially one where I don’t know where he is and if he is alright.              I believe Platon is a great photographer and is able to cap...

My propaganda poster is an image of a woman looking in the mirror while editing a picture of herself on her phone. I used my self-portrait to turn my idea into a manipulating message that many women see today since the birth of social media.                Today, women are pressured to be perfect and look a certain way to please other people. These beauty standards have driven women to edit themselves using different apps to make themselves look “better”. The message in the poster, “Edit your photos. You’ll look better”, is something that women all over the world hear from men or even, other women. It is sad to see how many people do not recognize that this is a big issue, not only for women, but for everyone. I don’t think there is anything wrong with editing a photo, but if you want to change something about yourself, do it because you want to and not to fit into society’s “norms”.       ...

 Sketch: B/W: 3 Color Versions Artist Statement My work consists of a logo that represents me as a person. For this project, I chose to draw a sunflower to be the logo that I “tattoo” on my forehead.  The sunflower is the perfect representation of who I am as a person. These flowers are mostly associated with the sun since they turn to it whenever it comes out until sunset. Most people in my life always relate me to the sun because I love the heat and always try to be out in the sun. Also, my friends tell me that I remind them of the sun because I’m a bubbly and active person that is a “ray of sunshine”. I mostly relate to the sun because of my love for the beach and the abundance of sun that I see back home at Puerto Rico. I created this work because it is a reminder of back home and the life I lived in the island. My overall vision of the work was to also represent the qualities that I possess. It is said that sunflowers are a representation of loyalty. I am extremely loyal ...