Individual Projects, 3D Alien and Lightning

These are two of my individual projects not related to the class. They were tutorials and I am happy with the way they look. The alien is also 3D but I am not sure if the 3D effects actually work.

Wiz Manga

This is my Manga piece. The biggest problem with this piece was getting his mouth to become smaller without distorting it too badly. I am pleased with the results especially after all the setbacks that occurred when I was doing it.

Retouch number 2

This is my second retouch picture, this was a lot harder than the first one. I am not sure why it was harder but the final outcome is mediocre at best.

Blemish Girl

This is the before picture of the "Blemish Girl"















This is the after of the "Blemish Girl". I learned how magazines and other publications retouch their photos. I learned how to use the "spot healing brush", and the "patch tool". Everything I did in this picture worked very well and I am pleased with the final results.

Lion Splat

This is my "Lion Splat" piece. This project was very time consuming and very detail orientated. The longest and hardest part was getting the paint splats cut out. Once I got the paint cut out, I had to cut the lion out of the background and get a copy of the lion. Then, I duplicated the lion and then I erased his back half, put the sp;at on him then merged the two layers. I then had to drag the combined lion and paint back onto the original background. Then I repainted the spaces over the lion and made them look like the sky. I am happy with the final results, especially after all the time it took. If I could change anything, I would choose a different paint splat and probably a new animal.

Baseball Color Wheel

This is my "Baseball Color Wheel" piece. The colors are the colors from an RGB color wheel, the RGB stands for Red, Green, and Blue. Which is different from the standard RYB color wheel used in painting, coloring, etc. I am satisfied with my results especially after all the trial and error I had already done before finalizing this picture. What didn't work was basically my entire first picture, because I used a photo that was shiny, so when I colored the item, only the edges would color, and the object was an irregular shape so it didn't make a very good circle. What did work was getting a mainly white object, my baseball, and coloring that to make a successful color wheel. I would definitely choose a white object that colors easily if I were to redo this project. The most difficult part of this project was getting the inner and outer glows of every baseball to be uniform, I was trying to achieve a perfect outer glow, and I'm very happy with how it turned out. I learned about the RGB color wheel and what you get when you combine certain colors in Photoshop.

Space

This is my picture of outer space. I enjoyed creating this piece, although it was a difficult piece. I am satisfied with the results of it. What didn't work, at first, was getting the cloud effect to be colorful but I just had to play with the layers a little bit to get the effect I wanted. If I were to redo this project I wouldn't change anything about it. The most difficult part of this project had to have been getting the color effects on everything in the picture to be uniform. I learned that making multiple layers and adding blur effects to a picture can really make it look a lot better.

Colorized

This is my "Colorized" picture. This is a very simple process with extremely satisfying results, everything worked and i had no trouble at all. I learned how to put colors under a picture and how to blend those colors to less sharp, and have a blurred effect.

Beached Pig

This is my "Beached Pig". I am very happy with how it turned out because of how difficult this assignment was. It was difficult because I couldn't figure out which two animals would look good if they were combined. I tried a polar bear and a cat, and a panda with a tiger, but those combinantions just didn't work. The hardest thing with this was getting the head and the body to morph together without it being noticed. I had to use the clone stamp tool, eraser tool, brush tool, just to get the head and body look like they belong together. What did work about this assignment was cutting out the pig's head from the original picture it came from. I learned how to make two different animals blend together.