do it

the action that i did for this project was based on autobiographical content. i printed my face on translucent paper then to stabilize it i ran wooden dows through the sides. i had my friend hold the paper in front of her face and made my images from there. i also wrote a little story, not so much a story as a collection of related sentences. the story is about my attachment to memories; it's a realization of my inability to look at what is really there as opposed to what i remember and what i want to be there. the images apply to my own self image and the pretense that i've changed but i do not consider what i look like to be what i am, i want to be what i was. i wanted to incorporate the story so i've added it in as a whole and then altered and cropped some areas.

replacement

i though this project was really interesting and i enjoyed switching up the gender. i feel overall i blended several elements to the best of my ability and i'm happy with the outcome. i used 4 or 5 pictures and took elements from them to create the whole; i based the piece off of the Entombment of Atala. in the end i made 2 images the second one which is the brightest i like the best because i wanted to give the image an out of this world feel. the Entombment of Atala has this godly light penetrating the cave and the Atala and i wanted to give a similar feel but with a sense of harshness. i wanted my piece to be a little cynical, Atala seems peaceful and pristine while mine is a bit sketchy, the events leading up to the final action is questionable. i wanted people to question why 2 teenagers were burying a fellow peer. 

scanned object exercise

i used a triceratops figurine as my object and overall i had difficulty coming up wit compositions. my first image most resembles my object and i think i like that one the best. i used several layers throughout the 3 different images, some of which aren't visible in the final products. for my second image i lassoed a piece of my object and created a pattern with it and played around with the colors. for  my third image i used my object and warped it beyond recognition and flipped and rotated it. i played with rotation, scale, and color throughout all of them. p.s. i don't know why it's underlined.  

photoshop exaggeration

this project was a little difficult for me, i had never really done a photoshop drawing and a missed the class with the explanation and such. i took the exaggeration in a bit of a different direction. first i constructed the image with the required layers, building up and switching the orientation of the layers. the image is about when, a couple years ago, i hit a deer at night on a back road back home. i wouldn't interpret my piece in a literal way, there weren't 20 deer. it was just one, a doe, and i didn't see it at all it was like i blinked and then we collided. since i hit it while i was driving it traveled with my car for a couple seconds before i hit the brakes. it kind of just got up and walked off. at the time that deer seemed with the biggest creature that existed. i choose to multiply the deer because at the time of an incident or scary situation, to me at least, things always seem grander and greater than they really are. the deer got me so upset because it just took me by a huge surprise; after i got home i realized it was just a doe crossing the road.