The Bike collage

Looking at some other peoples work in an exhibition at college I decided to take a little piece from a couple of their shows and see what they look like when they are all put together. These are: Textures (seat and wood), The block colouring(building) and the real image in the back ground. Starting from a tracing I had taken of the bike I then took some time rubbing our as much of the free space in it that i could. After this I started to block colour the bike and add in the textures and photos.I think that this image colour work very well if i had spent more time on it but this was just to see what would happen if I did do it. I think that the the textures and other element are good by themselves and in moderation but in this piece I have used them all to much making it look very shoddy and well,crap.

Yuuki

When in photoshop i am always trying to get good texture with my images and i have tried different techniques to get is very vivid. When I drawing and scanning I feel  this give a very good texture with the smudging. This type of affect really works well with the theme of the image. When looking at this image to make it better next time I would make the drawing more affective with more detail as  it is really only an outline so you can see the back brushes which is good but not very realistic. When doing this image is thought for a while what the colour scheme was going to be and I found that a red to grey gradient was the best affect as red is the colour on the Japanese flag.

Spotted

Looking at some of Sarah Howells work of models faces with different textured scanned in. I decided to use a red spotted hanky cover this works in a very retro environment. With there market in train tickets i decided to stick with that theme. This images manipulation in not really for any message just another way to show how peoples features can be changed by using different patterns and layers. I think that this colour scheme works well as it all interlocks with the tickets in the background. To make this better next time I will make the opasity of the pattern layer a little higher to make it a little more bold on the models face.  

Fraction

This image is ment to be Dan being fractionised into tiny pieces I feel that this has only worked to a mid level because of the the almost  white band down his back but with working on this for a little more time will sort this out.

Dragon keeper

The reason for this image is that i like my fantasy adventure storys and i just had one in my head of a person that could control dragons so but searching on Deviant art  i found some dragon expressions. The head in this image is one of them. I used black and grey as the main tone scheme because it really brings your attention on the colour in the eye's of the subject and add the mennace of the dragons size and power.

Artists Of Photoshop

When searching the internet i found the artists of photoshop web site. This site is very good for looking at refrences and ideas  which i am finding .

Rokas Mezetis

I think this image is very well thought out. It shows that you do not need alot out of affects to change an image into something which inhances the action in the photograph. Thew Backgrounf in this has an urban painted feel which is the type of style I like in beingdifferent than the people before you. The rest of Rokas work is in a link at the side bar

sora

On the internet there are thousands of cartoon photo's that have been manipulated. I decided that i wanted to have a go so i set out to turn a game inthousiast that dressed like my favourite charactor. After finding the photograph I started to play around with the layer settings and when i used colour dodge and then inverted the image this came up very white so i looked on youtube for advise. I found out that if you wack up the threshold then the out lines of the subject really bolds out giving the effect of a marker pen. This image could be made better by having mor4 of an outline of the handle as the block colour looks stupid and kiddy on the plain white backgound.

Apple

This is another playing session on photoshop.But this time I decided to use things that I have scanned in. This image looks very well blennded between the apple and the paper this is by using the blewnd tool. The text in this image looks a little to modern but due to the restriction of text i was alloud to use it was the best i could give. The message of this piece is something a big argument in this day and age between Apple and Windows and i am on the windows side. Tecnology is a big part of my life shooting digital in all, Take strong siding with any argument.  

Retro

Inpired by the retro market and an album cover i desicded to have a go it came out pritty good. People might say the colour clash but that was the 80's i guess.

Jeric'o Santander

Jericho strikes is clearly a very talentent editor of photographs and i is amazing to see the amazing detial his work with holds.When looking at this inperticular picture is it a wonder on how he get the texturev to the head and how almost everything looks like it has been animated and placed into photoshop. This is a very good example of photoshop and illistrater work but this i very far away from my talents at the moment. But i do like the message this image has about everyone has there opwn little world which they run, which is almost forever at peace and happiness. Although i said that this work is out of my reach i will still bring some of these ideas into my work such as the stream of stars that are following the runner. This affect give a very peacful and light mood to the image which is helped with the warm light setting in the background. Jeric'o's site will be linked under research.

Aston

Inspired by the work of Jackdaw i decided to do an image of one of my favorite athlets Chris Aston. A rugby play both nationaly and internationaly he has devloped a fan base that reconis him for a dive when he scored a try for the first time in the 2011 rugby world cup. By going into photoshop cs5 I use the filter gallary to turn the photo into a cartoon. By getting some brushes off the internet i then sprayed them on the back. To add more affect to the subject i got another photo of the english national rugby sybol, a flower. By turning this to gray scale it gave a pressed feel. I really like this image because it means alot to me and the rugby community as Chris is a very big symbol in our sport and to show him as this big bold character really give the right message.