Mark Making

1) As the artist of this piece my main objective was to cover the image in words that describe me with different color values so that the image still looks like me.

2) We primarily used the paintbrush tool, the pattern tool, the hue and saturation tool, and the select tools (rectangular marquee, select>similar).

3) Some of the challenges I faced during this project were deciding how I wanted to place the words on the image so that they were visible to whoever is looking at the image and deciding on which words I would even use for the project.

4) I created seven different custom paintbrushes for this project. Each paintbrush was used for a different level on the image and the background words are all of the words used in one paintbrush.

5) I made sure the color values did not blend by adjusting the brightness and contrast of the image before I used the posterize tool and after I de-saturated the image. The use of the brightness and contrast tool helped define the darker values and make the brighter values even brighter and more visible so that there would truly be six different levels instead of making the computer find six levels that would have a few blend with each other.