The Crafty DIY Blog

Throughout this semester in Digital Media, I learned about how to create different types of digital art. I learned how to edit photos, create my own song, and video.  I also learned about how to create digital art using my own 2D drawings and paintings to create a new digital version of it. I have improved my knowledge in digital media and learned how to use different software’s, such as Soundation, PixlrX, and ScribblerToo, among many others.  I learned that digital art can be very time consuming and requires a lot of thought and planning, but is worth it when the work is complete in the end. The skills that I have accomplished in this class was learning how to create my own mashup video, song, and creating 2D artwork from different software’s.  I have had experience with editing photos before this class, but I think I have only enhanced my editing skills using PixlrX. The skills I think I still need to develop more include song and video making, since this was the first time

This week in Digital Media we learned about vector-based graphics.  Vector graphics are used to create digital illustrations and connects points by lines.  For this week’s assignment, we had to create two different logo designs for our blog theme. Since my blog is titled “The Crafty DIY Blog,” I wanted to create a logo that represented crafts in a simplistic way.  For my first logo, I used the software Vectr .  I created a vector graphic of a ball of yarn using the ellipse and pencil tool.  I made the ball of yarn a light blue/aqua color to give it a peaceful look to it.  I used the font “Crafty Girls” for my text because I thought it fit my blog theme perfectly and it matched the original font I used for my blog title, which I was very happy about.  I liked using Vectr mainly because it gave me more font options than Method Draw did and I get the sense that it’s a craft/DIY blog from my logo.  However, the layout for the page was more challenging to use than on Method Draw for zo

For this week’s assignment in Digital Media, we learned about text-based art. Text-based art is art that is created by text – meaning that the text can form a work of art.  We had to use six software’s (GlassGiant ASCII Art generator, Text-Image, WordArt, Textorizer 1, Textorizer 2, and Exocoffizer) to create different types of text based art.  This was probably one of my favorite assignments we had to do because I enjoyed using the software's and including my own artwork in it.  For all the text based artworks I created, I was trying to create a theme that represented my love for art and school.   The first software I used was GlassGiant’s ASCII Art generator .  I used my first oil painting I made in my Painting class last year for this piece.  It is a still life of a shoe, book, and bottle.  It had a width of 100 and small font when it was converted.    Reference Drawing  HTML format ASCII format  Matrix format The second software I used was Text-Ima

This week we learned about generative art in digital media.  Generative art is digital art made by using an online software.  For our assignment, we had to use the software ScribblerToo and Flame to create four images – two from each software.   Girl with Hair Ribbon  Rainbow Rubik's Cube  Comparisons to reference pictures:      For the ScribblerToo drawings, we had to use an image for as a reference for one drawing and have a sense of volume for our second drawing.  In my first drawing, I used Roy Lichtenstein’s  Girl with Hair Ribbon , 1965 as my reference.  I came across that image when looking for Pop Art images because I like Pop Art and wanted to use a 2-dimensional painting for my drawing reference.  For my image, I didn’t use a big brush size because I wanted it to look very similar to the painting, in addition to adding my own style to it.  Instead of trying to make the colored dots on the girl’s face, eyes, and lips, I just used one solid color to

This DIY is fun if you want to create a collection of the same pattern/design on different materials.  I named my collection “The Sunset Collection” because the three pieces that I created had a sunset picture on them.  I had a lot of fun working on this DIY project and was very happy with how it turned out.  To begin the collection, I first went through an old moon calendar that I had and looked at which pictures I wanted to try to paint on my own.  I came across this pink/purple sunset picture, which I thought was breathtaking.  I was set on trying to paint my own design of it and began my first piece.  The first sunset painting I did was on an old bedroom sign that I had.  It was a long white horizontal wooden sign that said, “Lila’s Room” in pink marker.  I tried to use sandpaper to remove as much as I could and then painted a layer of white on it.  Once I let that dry, I painted my sunset design and transformed my bedroom design.  It now hangs above my calend

This DIY is great if you like wearing bracelets.  I created this DIY because I like wearing bracelets and I thought it would be cool to make it out of sleeves from old t-shirts that I had.     I first started off by going through the old shirts I had and picked which sleeves I wanted to use as bracelets.     I cut off the sleeves I wanted and cut it down to where it stopped by my wrist.   For the first bracelet I made, I used a plain pink sleeve and glued the edges that I cut to create the bracelet.  I made sure that the fabric could fit on my wrist and could be easily taken off.  Once the bracelet fit, I then took another old shirt I had, cut out a peace design I liked and glued it on top of the bracelet to add some color to it.  I later added beads on the ends of the bracelet from a beading technique I learned how to do in my Senior Humanities class.   For the second bracelet I made, I repeated the same process I did for the first bracelet, but used diffe

The previous DIY organizer I made was specifically for storing your pencils and papers.  This DIY is a desk organizer that you can use to store bigger items that you may have.  For mine, I stored some of my art supplies and small notebooks that I would need to use frequently.  This DIY Desk Organizer was inspired by the art/crafty YouTubers, JENerationDIY (Jennifer) and SoCraftastic (Sarah).    To start off this DIY, I first collected all the boxes I would need to store my supplies.  The big cardboard box was a bigger version of the frozen pizza box I used for my Telephone Table Organizer.  Inside of it, I inserted four boxes and one piece of cardboard that I used as line divider to make more compartment space.  I forgot what three of the boxes used to be, but the small magazine holder was another granola box that I used to store my small notebooks.  Once I gathered all my boxes and figured out how I wanted to arrange them, I then decorated all the boxes. For the

Desks have a lot of space for many items, such as pencils, pens, markers, highlighters, and paper.  During the school year, my desk has gotten filled with many papers, pens, and pencils that it’s hard to keep organized sometimes.  I created this Pencil and Paper Organizer to help keep my desk a bit more organized.  What’s great about this type of organizer is that it acts like a pencil holder, but can also hold some loose pieces of paper that you have lying on your desk.  It is a great DIY for keeping your stationary organized and also your life organized so you know where to find your pencils and papers that you might need to grab on the go.   To create this Pencil and Paper Organizer, I first started off by getting two empty Ritz cracker boxes.  I cut one of them shorter than the other for smaller items to fit inside.  I didn’t have hot glue in my house at the time, so I took clear packaging tape and taped the boxes together.  Then, I took an old striped

If you’re like me and dislike the look of plain solid colored notebooks that you may have, then this DIY will bring some colorful designs to your notebooks. I created different DIY notebook covers because I had a bunch of plain notebooks I needed for school and disliked all the solid colors it originally had on them.  It didn’t motivate me to want to even look at my notebooks because they didn’t have much color to it.  One thing to know about me is that I love art that has a lot of colors in it.  So instead of wasting money on trying to buy notebooks that already had cute designs on them, I collected the craft supplies that I already had at home, and started to create my own designs.       For the first two notebooks, I used the same materials, but in different colors, so I could tell what subjects they were for.  The first one I made was for my anatomy class.  I first took a piece of copy paper from my printer and sketched out my own design.  I tried to make a zig-zag/arrow

I created this DIY to help organize all the bathroom items that my dad and I use every day.  In our main bathroom, we have a white storage box next to our sink.  We store our bathroom essentials inside the storage box, but leave out our everyday items on top of it.  Once I was fed up with how messy the top had become with all our everyday items just laying on it with no organization, that is when I decided to create an organizer for all those items.  To create this DIY Bathroom Organizer, I took two tissue boxes that were empty and cut off the top of them.  I organized the boxes with my items and my dad’s.  I decided not to decorate the outside of the boxes because I liked the designs it already had on it.  I did decide to decorate the insides because I didn’t want to wake up looking inside a plain brown tissue box.  I wanted to make the boxes more colorful and interesting looking.  I decorated the inside of the boxes with scrapbook paper. For my dad’s box, I