Still Life Drawing

In class we had to make a still life drawing, and we had to make it as realistic as possible and try not to show any outlines. I feel I did a fairly good job at mine, but it was pretty difficult to not make an outline, especially if the the values were the same or very similar (like the sculpture and mannequin torso, they were both white so I had to make it so if didn't look like they were merged together or something like that....also the sculpture was very hard to draw!)
But overall, I think it turned out pretty well! :)

Post-Modern Art Styles Poster!

We had to make a post-modern art styles poster. I didn't add about one thing, but I didn't have the time to put it in, so this is what I got! This is a poster with 10 different post-modern art styles on it, with a photo example and a few distinctive characteristics of the style (which I couldn't get in). I chose to put Abstract-Expressionism, Color-Field, Post Impressionism, Cubism, Ashcan Art, Post Impressionism, De Stijl, Fauvism, Op Art and Surrealism (the outstanding ones are Art Deco, Dada, Pop Art, Art Nouveau, Cubism, Earth Art, Photorealism and Graffiti).

I do admit this poster could be better, but in the end its pretty good enough X) 

Post-Modern Art Styles portrait

For CyberArts we had to make post-modern art style self-portraits representing ourselves, either on the inside or the outside. I decided to take a surrealistic turn for mine and make it about the me inside.

The reason why I chose surrealism is because I feel its an art style that gives you things that are unexpected and crazy, Which is kind of what I am, but mostly crazy! I wanted it to be a bit all over the place, so you look around the entire photo (the emoticons pop out the most, but then its supposed to lead your view to the back.)

I really don't have a lot to say about it,  but since it represents me, the one people can't see just by looking at me, I might as well explain;

As I said, I'm pretty crazy, and sometimes I tend to get mood swings (hence the emoticons) one minute I could be happier than a kid in a candy store, the next minute its like I'm at a funeral, thats how weird it gets. The heart and the mouthed apple in my hands are supposed to represent my twisted mind and sense of humour (also I like drawing apples with mouths). my blue scarf is supposed to represent anxiety. The blue is off, but the colour of the anxiety ribbon is a blue, and I have severe anxiety, so I thought I'd throw it in.
The rainbow liquid seeping down my face I can't exactly remember why thats there, but...eh, it looks nice?
I put the text in the back (The text is two riddles from The Hobbit!) because I just really like it, I suppose XD

But yeah, thats my Post modern art styles portrait! :)

Two things I did in the past week

Over the past week or so I've gotten bored enough to do things I don't usually do, so I ended up trying out water colors freely for the first time and editing a photo.

The photo at the top is of my water color attempt. I sketched out and inked one of my characters (His name is William) and then colored it with my water color paints (I used a lot of red and black, with some purple for his hair and stuff!). I went a bit crazy to make it look bloody and gory since it fits his character, but I feel I did a pretty good job. I was actually inspired to draw him specifically because of two songs I was listening to that day; "S.H.E." and "Volatile Times" both by IAMX (the songs are here and here)

The second picture is a photo I edited of Chris Corner, who is actually from IAMX (IAMX is his solo musical project, I like it a lot). I found this picture on google images of him and kind of went to town with an online photo editing software (original picture is here. I also got inspired somewhat by another song by IAMX called "Under Atomic Skies").

I can't remember exactly what I did, but I mixed many different photo effects and did a focal blur and some other crazy things and it ended with this. I dunno I find I did a really good job and I'm proud :) (Also the thing at the bottom corner is my tumblr blog link, I was originally going to just put it there but...yeah)

So those were really the only major things I've done this week related to art, so...yay?

Art Nouveau Slide

If you need to look at my art nouveau slide show, click here 

Adobe Illustrator-Light Bulb

This time we had to use illustrator to make a lightbulb :) heres the original photo:

Now I didn't necessarily finish because I got severely frustrated with Adobe Illustrator so I just stopped before I made myself upset. But as of right now this is what i've done;

Using the pen tool, I made outlines around everything, starting with the Edison screw and ending with the reflections of light (in my opinion the pen tool is a pain. I originally used shapes and merged them all together, but that one looked horrible and it also got deleted so I had to start over). Once I finished outlining I used the gradient and fill bucket tool to fill in the shapes and give the photo some color (when it came to the light reflections I removed the black outline once I was done). After that I just saved it as a png file and posted it here!

I didn't do a lot (unfortunately) but thats what I did! if anything was difficult, it was pretty much everything, Illustrator never works when I use it so I don't like using it...But it was kind of fun I guess!

Rick Mercer Photo Challenge- Stephen Harper Jeans

In class we had to do the Rick Mercer photo challenge starring Stephen Harper! (the challenge is here) What you had to do was take a picture of Stephen Harper that was on the website and photoshop it to make something "special." For this, I decided to take one of Justin Bieber Calvin Klein photos and put Stephen Harpers face on the model. Here's how I did it;

1- First I opened both pictures in photoshop. Then, using the Quick Selection tool I selected Stephen Harpers face then copied and pasted it into the Calvin Klein photo.

2- Using the transform tool I dragged Stephen harpers face over the models face and bended the image until It matched the body and face shape as much as possible. It took a bit of work with not only the bend tool but I used liquify for some minor details such as the areas around the hair.

3- This is when I made his face black and white. I erased some things that I missed when I changed his face shape and size so it looked like it fit.

4- Using exposure, I changed Harpers face to make it match the contrast of the photo as much as possible. I couldn't make it match completely, so I had to change the photos contrast slightly as well.

5-I was told to attempt changing the "Calvin Klein" to "Stephen Harper" or something along those lines. So I selected every letter individually at the bottom of the image and used the fill tool to get rid of them as best as I could. It probably took me the longest out of everything because I screwed up a lot and had to re-do it.

6- Afterwards all I did was add the text. I scrolled through the text options until I found a font that matched the original Calvin Klein the most and added it in. Since the pants are so bright I went over to the layer styles and used the drop shadow option. I played with it a bit and eventually it looked like an outline. I did the same with the Hash tag, fixed the exposure a bit more, then I was done!

That was my step-by-step for my Stephen Harper Jeans.  buy a pair, take a picture and tag it with #MyHarpers! (though don't actually because there ain't no brand called Stephen Harper Jeans obviously)