I was inspired to do this picture because I love having dramatic contrast. Using a bunch of different pictures to add the grainy texture. The picture was originally a bit blue, so I desaturated it, then added an orange photo filter to get the antique and old look i wanted. The only thing I would do different is getting a picture with a crow, or another darker bird in the tree. To add to the mysterious look.
This is my movie inspiration. I like the dramatic lighting. It is the main reason why I have the faces standing out so much. Genre is Horror, title The Fun House, the tag line is Something is alive in the Fun house.
Horror, The Heart, Where is yours? The plot is of three kids devastated by a crazy killer. Stealing peoples hearts and selling them on the black market. Protect your heart. Or you might not have one. I would have three sketches but they all ended to this. The characters are Luke Astle as Luke, Brandon Coover as Vancoover, Nick Keller as Willy, Jeff as Dilan.
Stock image #1: This photo above had the hue and saturation raised really high, and I copied and pasted the tall building so there is 2 of them. Then I also crystallized all of the buildings and blurred it.
Stock Photo #2: So I added text, used the clone tool. Hue and saturation, and the last one is a filter affect.
Camera Photo #1: So I added text, changed the color of the mountain in the front. Then cloned the cliff to the right, and used the spot heal tool to clean it up a bit.
Camera Photo #2: This picture I brightened up the kiddos shirt a lot, and I enlarged my head. Using the face detection of photoshop I enlarged my eyes and made me frown. Then I took the rock out, but I didn’t know how to use the clone tool and the healing tool as well as I do now.
Camera Photo #3: I sharpened his face, blurred the background. Added a lens flare, and changed the color of his eyes.
Camera Photo #4: I used light levels and brought out the white of the water and darkened the dirt and stuff. I copied the rock, and enlarged another. And used the heal tool to clean it all.
In this assignment we learned one of the biggest uses of photo shop. Repair and restore. The first picture was really hard but after a while I was able to make edits really fast and keep the picture really close to its original picture. And in the second one was pretty easy cause there were no scratches or rips by important parts of the picture.
In this project we learned how to make subsection in your pictures and being able to reuse your marquee tool. Using the filter tab you are able to get all of these random effects. These skills will be very valuable.
This basic tutorial of all the tools used in illustrator made it a lot easier to start our first projects. Knowing how to efficiently use the pen tool, and to edit the anchors are a big thing to know. And having a little bit of fun at the end and adding color into our shapes shows us the basic power of illustrator.
In Illustrator, i was able to turn my homecoming picture into art. It is not perfect. But i love my face, and i think it looks great.
So in this assignment I learned some of the very basic features in Adobe Illustrator. How to move anchors, and how to pull the shapes i want out of basic polygons. The more I learn the better I will be able to manipulate the objects.
Luke's (C)-Astle of Projects 