Surreal Practice Tutorials

In the desert tutorial we made the ground appear to be stretching out as if it is getting smaller when further away. For the sky we changed the colors using gradient tool, making it a dark blue at the highest part of the sky and an extremely light blue where it meets the horizon. The realistic white color of the clouds also assist in making the sky look more real. Although it does not make sense to have a lamp post in the middle of the desert we have made it look real by adding a shadow of the lamp post and editing its size.

Doing these tutorials will assist me in creating my surreal artwork because it shows me first hand how to create a surreal piece. Figuring out how to do shadows the way we did, and blend to separate pictures together such as the eye and the brick wall and erasing the brick around the eye so it looks as if the eye is popping out of the wall. Learning how to do these tricks with help me to think outside the box and know how to make my surreal image look real.

Art Show: "Scary Alien Effect"

Scary Alien Effect

This piece was made around the time of Halloween this school year. The picture was edited in Photoshop to look like an alien. There are multiple things that had to be added to this picture to make it what it is. Things such as the tentacles coming out of my mouth were taken from an octopus as you could probably tell if you pay close attention. I was trying to make my picture look frightening, but I ended up laughing at my finished product rather than feeling any type of fear at all. I like this picture because it is the type of things I wanted to learn how to do from digital photography class as well as much more. The earth tone colors used added more to the effect of the alien picture which in a way I felt ironic. However this piece is something I am proud of and I especially like the mascara running down my face that I created, I believe it was the cherry on top of the Sunday.