Fake It

For this piece, when I found this image online, I knew what direction that I wanted to go with it. I liked the care free look on her face and how she was in a tree. Sometimes we feel like the world is against us but we put on a happy face and don't let anyone know how we really feel. I felt like with this I could accomplish that feeling and just to hold on to something when we feel troubled. For this one, I started off with selecting the area below her which was a patch of a long leafed plant. I wasn't sure exactly if I should use flames or broken glass. When I added in those photos, and removed the areas that weren't selected, I looked to see which image of fire or glass looked better. I felt like the flames contrasted more than the glass did, so I selected that one. 

Next I decided to add some storm clouds and lightning for more of an effect on the tone of the piece. I went ahead and added the photo on another layer and then changed the opacity of it to about 30%. I then went around with the eraser tool and erased the storm picture where the balcony of the building is, the palm tree and the circular sculpture. When that was done I brought back the opacity to 100%. 

I also decided last minute to get rid of the ground. I found an image of space and used that to make it feel like if she were to fall, there's no way back out. I put the space image did the same thing to it that I previously did on the storm image. I made sure that this layer though was below the fire layer so it wouldn't be in front of it.

Fake It, Digital, Photoshop CC 2017.

Biker Gang

This time I found a vintage photo online with girls on some motorcycles. I decided to make the wheels of the bike colorful donuts. I chose these donuts because I figured it would be a nice contrast and bring the viewers eye towards the subject against the black and white background.

I felt that this still needed something else. So I found photos of sprinkles and gummy bears to cover the body of the motorcycles. I kind of like this. I figured that back in the day women might not have been viewed in good light if they were on a motorcycle. It was probably not feminine enough. So I added sweet to show off that tone. 

Biker Gang, Digital, Photoshop CC 2017

The Dress

I decided to move from rooms into other subjects. This time I found a vintage photo of someone. I wanted to change the dress and found a floral pattern. Then I selected the area around the dress and went to the floral pattern layer and deleted that selected area.

After this I did select the area where there is some fabric that is tied around the dress. I found a picture of doillies  that were all different colors and formed a ring. I was going to add that where the fabric layer but decided not to because it was hard to tell what it was and was too busy. I really do love the photo just with only the floral pattern but I chose to add a little bit more. In the background where you see the street, I selected that area and brought in a picture of autumn leaves. I thought it would be a nice contrast from the spring like floral pattern on her dress. I was also going to put the autumn scenery in the window by the woman. But when I did this, I felt like it took away from the photo and decided to just keep the autumn scenery in the street. 

The Dress, Digital, Photoshop CC 2017.

Opposite

In this room, I noticed that this is a modern room and everything is slick and smooth lines. I wanted to change that and add areas of this place with texture and movement. 

Opposite, Digital, Photoshop CC 2017.

Reflected

I decided to make something similar in process that I've done in high school. I created a room and cut out magazine pages to fit the walls, ceiling, and furniture for the room. So I did the same idea but digitally.

First I found an image of a room that inspired me to create this room. I then outlined in a new layer each section that I was going to put in each area.

I wanted to the stars on the ceiling, but I knew I wanted a cluster of them near the area where the chandelier was. This to give it some effect that the lights from the chandelier was reflecting off into the sky.

I proceeded to do this to every area that i wanted to change. So I added a green scenery. And decided to show the opposite of that in the walls.

I wanted to change the rug into something different. I didn't want to do something dealing with nature though. So I chose a swirl of table cloths in different colors. 

Then I finished changing the walls. 

Reflected, Digital, Photoshop CC 2017.

3D Dog Eye

The next thing we tried to make was a 3D eye in photoshop. In the 3D tab we created and sphere from mesh and I decided to keep the light source in the front of the eye. Then I flattened the sphere and duplicated it making a smaller sphere.

I selected the inner sphere and with the color balancing tool changed the colors to a orangish brown color. 

Afterwards I created a circle to make the iris and pupil of the eye. Then I used the gradient tool and filled it in to create the eye color and the pupil. Then on the bigger sphere that we made first I used the levels tool to create the darker area around the eye. 

I wanted to make the eye a little more realistic and detailed so I created a new layer and used a round fan stiff thin bristle brush and added highlights and shadows around the iris. 

I then decided that i didn't like the second sphere that was smaller so i decided to get rid of it. I then added light reflection on the eye and decided to go ahead and make the area of the dog around the eye. I used the line tool to create where the skin meets the eye and warped it to make all of the curves. 

Then I selected the area around the lines and in a new layer filled it with the color black. Then I colored around the eye with a brown color to give a base coat for the skin since dogs have less hair around their eyes. I then created a shadow on the top part of the eyes to give it some depth from where the brow bone of the dog is. 

I then used that same brush from earlier on the iris for the fur. I used grays, browns, and black brushing in the direction that the dog hairs grow. 

Then I created a new layer and used pinks and the same brush to create the fur and skin around the areas around the eye. 

Then after all of that I used the Gaussian Blur filter to blur everything out. 

Dog Eye, Digital, Photoshop CC 2017

3D Dog nose

This week in class we were making 3D objects in photoshop. The first one that I made was a dog nose. In the 3D tab I created a cone from mesh and moved the toggle around to change the direction of light. Then I flattened the image and made the cone more softer and getting rid of the point with the puppet warp tool. Then I proceeded to add layer upon layer of color to color in the nose. The texture of dogs noses reminds me of cobblestones. So I found an image online and turned the opacity down and changed the layer from normal to linear light to get the details of the pavement to create the texture of the nose.

Dog Nose, Digital, Photoshop CC 2017