Set 3: Self Reflection/Critique

Historical relevance & Self-Reflections/Critique

Set 3: Faux Historical Documents; Part 2

Rat Attack!

Set 3: Faux History Documents; Part 1

 The War on Women

Set 2: Face Composite

I used the lasso tool to take different pieces from each person's face to put in the composite. Each photo in the set of 5 has red circles around the parts that were put on the center photo. I mostly used the patch tool and a soft eraser. I also used the healing brush tool, the clone stamp, and changed the color balance on some of the facial features. I had a few other photos that I used but it was mainly trial and error. Certain things didn't line up or looked very wrong, proportionately, with the rest of the face. I had each person stand in front of a white screen and shot them all at the same exposure. I tried to make sure they were all facing forward but there was a slight amount of tilt in some faces that wasn't terribly hard to fix with some rotating. I probably could have made the eyebrows blend a little better with the skin and also should have tried a few other eyes. Challenging myself a little more could have been a good idea with different skin tones and genders as the final product has girls with mostly the same skin color with minimal variance. I think the lips and nose were incorporated the best out of all of the features I added. They worked really well with the original face yet still made something seem slightly off.

Set 2: Celebrity Face Composite

Rooney Mara + Anne Hathaway + Ellen Page

Ewan MacGregor + Twiggy

I think picking celebrities to morph together was the hardest part about this. I couldn't decide who would go well together. I started going through favorite movies and took actresses and an actor from them, plus Twiggy. Putting Twiggy and Ewan together was really interesting because it just made him look like he had on makeup and was pouting. I probably could have made her lips blend into his face better but it was difficult with the facial hair. Combining the others for the piece I like best was a lot of fun. Three of my favorite actresses morphed together just looks incredibly creepy. I think the fact they all had extremely close skin tones and were photographed in similar lighting helped out a lot. The weirdness is a bit captivating in this one I think. I should have fixed the shadow on the right side of the lips in this one. These two celebrity composites were made using mostly the patch tool, transform tool, clone stamp, and healing brush. I used a soft eraser to get rid of major parts of faces that were pasted onto others.

Digital Imaging & Meaning, Set 1. Silhouettes.

Silhouette #1

Office Space

9"x11"

Object used: Stapler.

 

For the most part in my first silhouette assignment I did a lot of copying and pasting. I used the transform tool quite a bit as well, but more for changing angles than anything else. To make the silhouette of the stapler I used the lasso tool to select only the stapler and then deleted the background using the inverse selection. I locked the layer transparency and use date brush tool to make the entire object solid. I thought my craft could've been better. I think I may have rushed through it too fast. When I was trying to think of what objects to use I was running through significant objects from movies in my head and I thought it would be neat to make an office or cubicle out of the red swingline stapler in Office Space. I think the parts that work best are the computer and desk. The rest could be reworked or reorganized and look much better. The clock just looks like a blob on the wall, so I need to add something to make it stand out more as what it's supposed to be. I might be beneficial to make the scene bigger and out of more staplers.

Silhouette #2

Teeth

10"x10"

Object used: Tooth.

I have a fascination with teeth, so I incorporated them into this assignment. I found an image on google and cut the tooth out of it with the lasso tool. I locked the transparency and made it all a solid color and cleaned up the edges a little I decided on the colors because the brightness reminds me of sticky chewy candy colors. I started with the pink and blue-green scheme then added filters and messed with the hue. The other color combination I really liked was red and green but it didn't give off the candy vibe I wanted. Both versions are shown but the pink and blue-green is my favorite of the two. I think I did a pretty good job of showing foreground and background by alternating the colors as well as making the ones on the bottom layers fade into the background. I tried to make the pink stand out enough without completely hurting anyone's eyes. The teeth looked a bit flat so I added the accent lines on the top of each one to give them a more 3D feel. I think the way the teeth fee into the background works really nicely. It may have helped to add shadows or something to help separate the layers of teeth a little better.

Digital Imaging & Meaning, Set 1. Digital Collages.

Digital Collage #1

The Great Cover-Up

10"x15"

This piece began while I was searching through magazines looking for things to scan for the assignment. I kept coming across make-up ads that really frustrated me so I started tearing them out. Most of the major images in the piece are scanned images but a few things definitely came from the Internet. I wanted the cutout pieces to look very choppy like I had physically cut them out and pasted them together on paper. I put bags under the eyes of this pastiche style face and put crows feet on her too. I wanted to emphasize the features the way the magazine ads emphasize the need to hide or get rid of them. I put paintbrush marks over some of the words to look like make-up as well. The whole piece is a statement on how the media really loves to tell women that they need to do certain things so they can be attractive to society regardless of how beautiful they are. They hold every woman up to this standard of beauty that the models wouldn't even achieve without photoshop. I probably could have improved the piece by making multiple versions that varied a lot. The other versions I made just had small differences and just made it look a little awkward.

Digital Collage #2

 Sweet Tooth

14"x9.5"

For this piece I used a lot of pictures from the Internet along with downloaded brushes and some text I made all of these different pictures into a mouth. The word SWEET has parts erased to look like its rotting away as your teeth would if you ate sugar all the time. The rows of teeth are made of 4 or 5 individual molar images that I cut and pasted together, then warped to give a curved look like they're actually in a mouth. I had to mess with the hues of everything to make it all look like candy. I wanted it to be made up almost entirely of bright childlike colors. I think I could have spent more time on the gums to help them blend into the teeth like gums actually do. I think the lips might also be a little too much but I haven't decided the best way to fix all of that quite yet.