So for our culminating assignment, we had to make a surreal image using photos, and (obviously) photoshop. My work is called; "Glorified bodies"
We had to make it based on social, economical, or humanity issues. So I
chose to do a subject that is looked at quite often; how industries make models
on magazines look like the perfect human being, hence why my picture is called “Glorified
bodies”. I took a picture of my friend holding up her shirt to reveal her
stomach, while another two friends of mine are working on her, to make her body
look “perfect”. There is a screen to the far right, which shows what they are
doing to her, pushing her stomach in, retouching her face, etc. At the current
moment in the picture they were just fixing up her stomach to make her look
pencil skinny.
Oh gosh…the procedure was forever. I had a lot of trouble actually
working on the model on the screen to make her look like an actual magazine
model, it got really aggravating after a while, also, my model had a slight
smirk on her face when we took the picture, so I had to make it look like she
actually had a frown. I used probably 30-ish layers to make this, maybe more,
but eventually I managed to get it to work, I adjusted lighting in the picture,
colored things over, etc, and it ended with this.
What I learned was
that being someone who actually edits the model must be pretty dang hard. It
was really difficult to edit my model to make her look like a magazine model. That,
and I’m pretty good at coloring things over
J. I also learned that
the liqufy tool is more useful than I thought. And in the end…I’m actually
