Digital Painting

1.) I think that the strongest area of my work was blending the feathers with the mixer brush. I think that the color looked most realistic there.

2.) My work can be improved on by blending the beak and head of the scarlet macaw with the mixer brush. That was the part of the painting that I think would've looked much better if it was done much better.

3.) The easiest part of this project to make the outlines around the color shifts. Though it was very time consuming, it resulted in some great colors and it took the least amount of time even though it took a whole class.

4.) The hardest part of this activity for me was to blend with the mixer brush tool, because I didn't think that I effectively blended dark colors with light colors. When it came to blending, I think that I could've done much better.

5.) In this project I used the paint brush to outline the color shifts and to later on fill in those outlines. The eye dropper was used to select a specific color to fill in the outlines and the mixer brush was used to blend the paint sections.

6.) I demonstrated the objective in this project by using layers to separate the reference photo from the drawing layer and painting layer. I used the paint tool to outline the color shifts and fill in the outlines. I used the eye dropper to select a color to fill in the outlines and I used the mixer brush to blend the colors.

7.) If I did this project again I would want to paint someone, either real or a cartoon instead of a scarlet macaw and I would try harder to use the mixer brush to make the color more even.