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.