Blog 5

The most significant accomplishment I feel I've reached is just the ability to now navigate Photoshop. Before I had never used it, now I think I could manage most of the tutorials and more difficult things... in time. The thing I was screwing up the most was trying to make things fit into a picture. I really struggled making things look as though they belong. Granted there is a lot of work I could still put in, but it is quite a bit better than when I started learning. Messing with the saturation, feathering the edges and changing the colors help to blend them in. I haven't mastered it by far, but it's better. Besides perhaps my final, all of my work has been simply showing that I understand the concepts and methods used in Photoshop. I did learn with my midterm, it's not what you show, but how it interacts with the rest of what is there. I tried to just show images of my message, and got a jumble of pictures with no meaning.

Blog 4

The big idea in my project would be that in human nature, even while bad things are happening we can ignore them and live in bliss. Even when the bad things are helping us succeed, if we don't see the negative things first hand, we can pretend they aren't happening. I tried to portray this with 2 sides, one being hectic, end of the world like chaos. The other is an underwater paradise with a small hint of the bad, but only enough to help light it's way. I'm not sure if this work can be used for anything constructive aside from it being. Perhaps just an inward look at what we need to live our happy lives.

Blog 3 Big Idea

I had trouble finding digital art that seemed to have a big idea. Most of digital art to me seems to be taking other ideas and mushing them together to make something neat looking. However I did find someone quite interesting. Someone trying to speak for the social issues from around the globe using ancient hieroglyphs in his work.

The big idea of social issues in the modern world is quite intriguing to me. The priorities of cultures and the face they want to demonstrate to the world are often put before the well being of their citizens or even the legacy they may leave.

Blog 3 first artist

David Owens caught my eye as I was looking through worth1000.com. The first picture I noticed was, "Bowled Over". I really enjoyed the light style and the futuristic look. It's a bright world but still blends very well.

I then started looking at the

rest of his work, and saw "SnowAtomium". This has much the same style. It is bright, but nothing is lighter or more out of place than the rest. Even the children in the bottom, playing around it fit into the scenario.

The imagery really is interesting, especially in the first one. This marvelous, space aged building, just left as a relic. No one even notices, simply part of the environment now. And that is similar to "Bowled Over". The fish are leaving the domes because it's broken and no longer serves a purpose to them.

Tutorial

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This was the first step, I removed the background and only left the eagle and what it was standing on. This was so I could easily take the water and not have a conflict with background. I selected the bird and rock and moved it to a new image.

This was the second. I found an image of water and took it up to the level of the eagle I wanted. I then distorted it to look like only the top, instead of underwater. I also erased some of the water over the eagle to illustrate depth.

This is the final picture I took before finishing. I found an underwater image and sized it to fit underneath. I lightly erased some of the color from over the rock and bird to have it show through. Other than that, not much has changed.

The final image, I found an image for the sky and put it in. I also added a distortion between the underwater and above water images.