Scanograms and Digital Art!

The assignments that we had to do these last two weeks were scanograms and digital paintings! So this first one was a straight scan. I bought some page protectors and painted a heart (kinda crapily) and positioned the nail polish bottle and brush as so. I then put them on the scanner in the photo lab and proceeded to scan! Of course there was some editing to do to get rid of my finger print smudges and any other random pieces of lint and stuff, but in the end, this was the product!

This one was a combination. I scanned the notebook piece of paper and the eraser. I would've scanned my hands, but I think that would've been a bit hard and uncomfortable on my part so I just took some pictures of those two things and the little piggy up at the top and then combined all of the things together! I wanted the viewer to get a sense of what it's like to be in my sociology classes....this is kinda what I do sometimes....except I can't draw anything awesome like the hand holding the heart.

These next two picture are my digital paintings. I took a picture of the apartment planet, Arwen, and then made it look like I painted it with watercolors!

Here, I tried to re-create a photo I took last semester. It's got a cooler feeling compared to the other one which was a bit warmer. I think I did a pretty good job with this one and making it look like a painting :)

Working with Photoshop...

...is kinda hard. We had an assignment where we got to choose an Edgar Allan Poe story and recreate kind of like a book illustration for it. I chose one called something like Premature Burial. We were also required to use at least two of our own pictures. I took the background and the tombstone from the internet and the hands and mound of dirt are my own pictures. I didn't really like the way it printed cause it still looks pretty fake, but that's okay. It's something that I am still practicing.

Leapers

So, this week's assignment involved superimposing images to make one realistic looking photo. For a homework assignment we had to recreate a photograph of a famous photographers. I chose one by Beckelman that was called "Leaping Commuters." It's supposed to look like the one below.