Brandon James Art

This is the link to my Wix Site  In creating my blog, I wanted to find something that felt like me. I  mentioned being from New York throughout this course and thinking back to my event poster gave me an idea for my main page. I used a brick wall photo, some AI generative fill, and a downloaded font to make it look as though I'd spray painted. I wanted this to have a retro effect.  Working on logos is hard. I watched a few videos and kept it simple, using my initials and a circle. While it might look simple, searching for fonts can be very time-consuming. There was a lot of work done in comparing the fonts to see which ones would work for me.  With the About Me section, I again wanted to add more elements of myself. I put myself into a calmer background and used the color of my shirt as the background color for my actual about me section. 

  Here is the original image, which I got from here . I initially tried to use one of my own images but I chose one that I was having some issues with.      The first image was really just me playing around. AI hasn't been something that I've used a lot in this course so it was fun to just see what it could do. I added in some people on a fishing trip as well as a fish. It was interesting to see the way that the AI interpreted certain things. There was a lot of using Generative Fill and trying to be particular with my prompts.  For my second image, I wanted to do some more subtle changes. I cropped the photo, using Generative Fill on the side of the plants. I had to scale it back some because the trees on the bottom didn't look real. I removed the single surfer and added in a beach. For some reason, AI added in a person on the beach but it helped with it looking realistic. You also might not be able to tell, but I added some stuff to the coastline.    ...