Roksanna Wasiunec is an art major focusing on computer graphics and photography. This portfolio contains examples of her: 1) Computer graphics work recreating photographs in Adobe Illustrator like a close up photo of Nike shoes titled "Nike's on Them Feet". 2) Photography projects including macro shots, images exploring motion with slow shutter speeds, and photos investigating contrasts. 3) Major seminar pieces using materials like sharpies, duct tape, and tape to create abstract puzzling images connected as a series exploring themes of opposites. The pieces are meant to make the viewer question the images and move their eyes throughout.

2. Table Of Contents About the artist
Part 1.......... Computer Graphics Work
Part 2.......... Photography
Part 3.......... Major Seminar Work
*view my blog* H i my name is Roksanna Wasiunec, most call me
Roxy. I an art major here at SXU. I am going down
*purchase my magazine*
the graphs design route. I would like my focus to be
mainly photography. This is a portfolio of my pho-
tography, assignments from my computer graphics
class and Major Seminar class.

3. Artwork by: RoksannaWasiunec
Artwork by: Roksanna Wasiunec

4. From this...
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and that everyone could recog-
ur biggest project that we did nize. When I took this picture I got
in low to the ground and really get
computer graphics was this proj- close to the shoes so I could bring
ect.We had to take a picture of all the details out while recreating
anything besides a human. With the shoe in Adobe Illustrator. The
this picture we had to duplicate it next page shows what he image
in Adobe Illustrstart:ator by using looks like once it has be altered in
the pen tool, layers and colors. Adobe Illustrator. Obvioulsy it
The picture that I took and used does’t look exactly like the picture
is to the right.I wanted to take a but it looks very similar to it. Look
a lot of detail
picture of an object that had at the details!

5. ...To This
W
because you can be sloppy to
hen I was finally done this a certain extent at first than get
is what the project looked like. I more detailed and careful when
you get more to the foreground of
Nike’s On Them Feet
call it Nike’s on Them Feet. The
picture right above the final was the picture. To top off the picture
a picture of how the image came and add a more realistic effect,
together. What made it possible I put a gradient layer on certain
was working in layers. What you parts of the shoes to make them
would do is layer or put down the look even more 3 dimensional.
stuff the furthest back first and
keep adding on top of it. This
technique works really well

6. Remixed
Roksanna Wasiunec
2011
Computer Graphics
A fter we recreated reality with
the object images we got to distort
What I like most about this is that
you still know that its Nike shoes
them and play around with the line because there are still enough
and colors. I really enjoyed recreat- details in the pictures. But enough
ing them this way because I love details taken out that you question
more abstract and modern looks. if these shoes are real or just an
It’s cool how you can distort some- image.
thing so dramatically.

7. photo2010 By: Roksanna
Wasiunec

8. Perfume
For thiscreate was a Macro shot. What a Macro
image I used a digital SLR camera. What
I had to
shot is you take a stationary onbeject and the
Macro brings ot all the extreme details within the
object and blurs out everything else. I chose my
favorite perfume bottle. The details so extreme that
you cam see little dust particles.
2010

9. Running Shoes
T he idea behind this image was
motion. The way I created the effect
of someone running out of their
shoes was I used a very slow shutter
speed. I had my brother ride a bike
behind the stationary shoes while
I set up a digital SLR camera on a
tripod an snapped the picture. It took
a couple tries but I am extremely
happy the way it turned out.
2010

10. love
T o create this image I used a digital SLR
camera. The way I created this image
was I used a very slow shutter speed and
made sure that the light in the room was
light enough to capture the image but dark
enough to actually have the image show
up. While doing this you have to make
sure the camera is on a tripod or else the
image will turn out extremely blurry since
the shitter speed is so long.
2010

11. Stairway to...
T o create this image I used a Holga camera. I
really enjoyed working with a holga camera for
the first time because I liked the fact that you
don’t know what the image will look like till you
actually develop it. The wayI shot this image
was I got to ground level on my stomach and
shot the strairway going upwards. I enjoy how
the blurred out edges tuned out as well.
2010

12. Color Explosion
T o create this image I used a digital SLR
camera. The way I created this image
was I used a very slow shutter speed and
made sure that the light in the room was
light enough to capture the image but dark
enough to actually have the image show
up. While doing this you have to make
sure the camera is on a tripod or else the
image will turn out extremely blurry since
the shitter speed is so long.

13. Running Water
For this imagetothat I used a digital SLRwas a
camera.
What I wanted create with this image
contrast . I really wanted to create a shallow depth
of field which is how I got the image to be very
focused in the front and blurry in the back. It really
helps with allowing the viewers eye to go to where
you want it.

14. Green
shoes
For this imagetothat I used a digital SLRwas a
camera.
What I wanted create with this image
contrast between nature and man-made. I really
wanted to create a shallow depth of field which is
how I got the image to be very focused in the front
and blurry in the back. It really helps with allowing
the viewers eye to go to where you want it.
2010

15. Major Seminar
By Roksanna Wasiunec

16. Thunderbolt
F or this image I took an
8.5x11 piece of paper and
Looking at the picture your
eye is drawn to the very center
where her finger is. its sepa-
I want the audience to wonder
why the image is seperated
used sharpies to make this into pieces and why the artist
image. I started off with a rates the image right in half.
Her hair on the left is darker decided to make the image
heavy black outline and angle
my pen to use the side of it which draws in your attention look like a puzzle.
to cover the space faster with and makes your eye mover
color. I used the tip of the pen around from there.
to create the dots on the skin.
Sharpie
2011
Roksanna Wasiunec

17. Fire and Waves
T his piece titled Fire And Waves
was the piece that had to connect
I tried to make the piece abstract This piece reminds me of the 70’s
yet have known images in it like in a way and I hope the viewer
all my previous pieces together. I the glasses and the eye. can kind of see that.
used sharpie to create this piece. When the viewer looks at this I
Whenever I start a new piece I have want the viewer to move his or her
an idea in my head but it never eye throughout the entire piece
ends up turning out what I envi- and wonder why the background
sioned mainly because I change my is what it is and why the pieces are
mind throughout the piece. just floating around.
This piece has a lot to do with op-
posites.
Sharpie
2011
Roksanna Wasiunec

18. Puzzled
T his is the first image in my series. to making the dots with the tip of the While making this image i wanted to
It’s the image that kicks everything off. pen followed by filling in some of the make sure that the viewers eye would
What i would like the viewer to focus pieces with the black pen. move around through the whole im-
on is the puzzles, thick black comical While making this image i thought a lot age. To ensure that this would happen
lines and the contrasts. about opposites. I used red and purple I separated the black puzzle pieces
For this image i decided to continue colors because they are nice contrasts. to different sides of the image. This
with the dots. I used sharpie to create This image also has heavy black out- helped balance out the image.
this image. First I outlined the puzzle lines like the previous piece. The dots
pieces with a heavy black than moved and stripes are also opposites.
Sharpie
2011
Roksanna Wasiunec

19. Black and White
F or this image titled Black and
White our class had to use a dif-
dissolve so to speak, as you eye
went down.
and have dots and thick black
comic-like lines so I decided to fill
ferent medium for the next piece. When I finished putting down the some of the outlined areas with
I decided to use duct tape and duct tape pieces I noticed that dots. I also made sure that the
sharpies. While making this piece the image didn’t seem complete black lines were thick and vivid.
I started off by layering the entire to me. So I took a black sharpie So that they stand out .
piece of cardboard with white and started to outline parts of the
duct tape. After that I cut square white where the neon duct tape
pieces of the neon colored duct didn’t overlap. What holds my
tape. I wanted the top to be much pieces together, as a series is
heavier with duct tape and for it to that my images are all abstract
Duct tape and Sharpie
2011
Roksanna Wasiunec

20. Bohemian Green
F or this image tilted Bohemian
Green, our task was to create
different shapes and colors. I
wanted to keep the image bal-
complicated and sporadic. I
believe that the image I created
a new piece that used all the anced so I had to spread out the follows all those guidelines.
shades of green. When I think of colors I used. When the viewer
green I think earthy and paisley. looks at this I want the viewer
So those were my two inspira- to think about earthiness and
tions for the piece I created. I de- paisley prints. The reason I titled
cided to use sharpies once again it Bohemian Green is because
to keep it consistent. I started off to me a bohemian look is very
by drawing random shapes and earthy and simple yet kind of
filling in the shapes with other
Sharpie
2011
Roksanna Wasiunec

21. Falling
Bubbles
F or this piece i was really
inspired by my other piece
The consistancy between all you have not noticed. This piece
also allows your to move around
my pieces still remains with the
Black and White. i really liked abstract feel and heavy comic- well because when you look at
how the positive and negative like outlines. When the viewer the top right your eye naturally
space worked well together looks at this piece I want the will follow downward than into the
along with the background and viewer to think why the title is big bubbles.
foreground. When you look Falling Bubbles if bubbles are
at this piece it’s as if the big supposed to float not fall. I like
bubbles on the left are infront using alot of irony in my titles if
of the bubbles on the right.
Sharpie
2011
Roksanna Wasiunec

22. Circles
For this piece I wanted to continue though the red helps add a very nice
contrast between and throughout the
my style of abstract pieces. I also
wanted to stick to using thick black piece. The way i created this piece
comical lines as I have in all my is I took a black sharpie and strated
previous pieces. This is what is hold- drawing swirls makinig some thicker
ing my series together along with the and darker than others. Following
fact that all my pieces are connected that I filled in certain sections with
like a puzzle of have parts to it. The the red making it completely random.
concept of this piece is abstract cir-
cles with a splash of color. I wanted
to use red because I feel as
Sharpie
2011
Roksanna Wasiunec

23. Bowtied
For this piecethick black comi-to
I really wanted The background of this image con-
nects to my previous peice Fire and
showcase the
cal lines because that is the most Waves. It’s the same concept and
important part of all my pieces. Its gives interesting foreground and
what holds everything together. bacground within the piece.
I used sharpies once again, The
inspiration for this image came from
a page in the magazine SPIN that I
stumbled upon.
Sharpie
2011
Roksanna Wasiunec

24. Thunderbolts and
Arrows
In this piece I wanted to focus Like always I used sharpies to cre-
ate this image. A difference in this
on color and contrast more than
anything. I decided to make the image is that it’s actually a 4x6 piece
background cool colors and the fore- originally rather than most of my
ground warm colors. The concept other which are 8.5x11.
of this image is thick black comical
lines creating a puzzled abstract
piece that has to do with arrows and
thunderbolts.
Sharpie
2011
Roksanna Wasiunec

25. Lines Of Duct Tape
T he idea behind this piece I really wanted to make this
was me trying to connect the piece abstract because I
duct tape more into the series. believe that that is my strong
I like always used sharpies point as an artist. I want the
to create thick black comical veiwer to really realize that this
lines. I wanted to continue the piece is more than just duct
puzzle effect so I had the duct tape. This piece creates inter-
tape create lines that make the esting contrast as well.
image come together.
Duct tape and Sharpie
2011
Roksanna Wasiunec