Final Project Part 3 [COMPLETE]

Posted by selim_nagisokrov , 17.6.10 13:36


Weaving in green, life was added to the dull creation. No longer chotic a serene scene began to form. From the browns of cliffs, little Squeers came out, testing the new grass and [It] knew that [It] had created a new sense of being. [I started with a hand drawn outline in this one. After adding the grass, it looks so cartoonish but look as I might people keept saying "THIS IS THE MOST REALISTIC" I was getting fed up so I did my own thing. Further back the layer of grass the lighter the shade until it gets to the water.]

And the omnopotent being wanted to see where [It's] creation would take itself. Stepping back [It] disolved [itself] into the sun to watch over the growth of this new planet. [Mountains looks too real in comparrison to my cartoonish grass so I blurred colored, faded, recolor, shifted, added until I got mountains. Water was that bas relief from earlier. I didn't bother bluring it since it was blurred already].

[John hated the blandness so I added a tree and created the first sign of life, a Squeer -- a deer, rabbit, kangaroo, squirel thing. After bluring, I set up the squeer with a watercolor and blur until it looked as sketched in as the grass it was one.]

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Final Project Part 2 [WIP]

Posted by selim_nagisokrov , 16.6.10 17:40

And the Creator looked down at [its] work. Large mountains surrounded grand oceans and lakes. It was an excellent fix to the once chaotic nature of space...but there was something wrong. [Random note -- making mountains is fun. After surfing the net for awhile I found some tutorials that showed me this cool thing with the mountainous lighting effect. BIG PROBLEM -- It causes the image to go grayscale because of the power of the default light. I suggest setting up a color balance mask to fix this.]



Creator's raylike eyes scanned over the waters. [It] watched waves hit the rock, saw the dust rise in the air and [it] knew what was missing. [It's] fixed masterpiece wasn't completed. [Random note #2: Water is so much fun! I started to also do that with the bottom of the rocks where it was supposed to be wet. Personally I think the rough texture of mountains and the soft bas relief texture gives it two different medium looks though. At least now I know what I can work on. The waves was a soft paintbrush effect with the blur.]



It lacked life. [Random note #3: A friend felt that the rock line was freestanding so I attempted at making a reflection. I think the bottom rock came out right but the top one, I tried turning the rock into a bas relief to fit with the span of water and darkening it, shortening it, changing the perspective and then decided to put another layer over it. As they say: if it aint right cover it up, ahah.....]


TBC-!

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Final Project [WIP]

Posted by selim_nagisokrov , 13:47

Update 6/16/2010:


My inspiration for this project was the creation mythological process. After thinking this through, I decided to narrate my OWN creational story using a lineal model for storytelling. As I tell the story of creation, I will also describe the skills of which I displayed for this work. All of this was done with photoshop as an illustrator and few photographs were actually used.


In the beginning there was nothing. [For this, I describe a black, silver star background made with paint filler and a silver paintbrush. To avoid the image being "too bright" I dimmed it down
with brightness/contrast.]

Stars and debris ran amok, creating a chatoic system of elements and energy until out of nowhere (as all myths tend to do) an omnipotent being came to be and decided to gain order by creating a world. [My first photograph for this project, my hands cup. To avoid a 'human' feel, I changed the tone, color, and transparency of this image and had the hands span from the stars themselves.]

Like spinning thread, the being spun the stars, debris, and chaos into a ball that sparked the beginnings of life in the center. "Around this," The being said, "All life will be created. [Using the liquidity, I shifted blues, greens, and browns to form out of a vortex and started to shift them into a ball. I then began erasing the excess color. In the center I did a lens flare to pinpoint the center of all creation -- or the core of a planet.]]

[Throughout this whole first image I wanted to create a sense of something from nothing. It's cynical of me write such an unbelievable myth of creation, but to me all creationist stories seem like this. You create something from nothing. This made taking photographs much harder because this thought in the back of my head kept reminding me that those images were something. So I decided to just hand draw it all.]
TBC-

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Assignment 5: Fortuna

Posted by selim_nagisokrov , 10.6.10 16:04

My theme of today is "Pages in History" with the idea that for something to have any kind of fame and fortune it must be remember through the ages and (at least to me) books do that.

In the first image the main backdrop is my mythology book (no, that's not a bible I scanned) that was leather bound gold page binded. These books always gave me the symbol of a rich fortuna because regular books (hard back or soft back/trade) are all cheap ranging from 4.99 - 25.00 but the leather bounds always have a rich, expensive look and feel. When I scanned it, however, my already pastey pages grew even more white and the gold plate lost it's edge so I went back and fixed that by brightening the edges/gold, but there wasn't much I could do about the pages so I went through my art paper and found some crinkled parchment pape that would give it an aged paper look.

The main "picture" consist of symbolc symbols of dragons and golds. Dragons, to me, are royal creatures. They are well known across cultures thus hold a famed feel towards them. They're also greedy creatures, hording gold and other shiny objects. The gold pieces in this image is foreign currency both Canadian and Ukrainian that I used color balance to bring out the yellow/gold look in silver pocket change. I then preceded to warp and skew the gold around the dragons, feeling the base. I left the entire image in a rich shade of yellow to add the feeling of wealth. I then warped these into the pages of the book to capture the image for all time.
Interestingly behind the dragons, faded from the original pages if one looks closely, is the tale of King Arthur.
My next image is a pirate treasure map with all it's mythological glory. Our dear pirates started their adventure in the Land of the Dragons, continuing forward they found there way to port where they hopped aboard their ship Lady Luck. Follow the black 'X's to the Red one that marks the treasure, but don't go to far south or the monsters there would eat you up.
This one I used the same parchment paper from before. The photoshop tool I used was removin the channels until only the red remained. Then inverse the select to get on the lines. I put these lovely style of cliparts to give it that "Ye Ole Map" look.

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Assignment #4: Surrealism

Posted by selim_nagisokrov , 5.6.10 17:27



Add ImageToday's work was that of surrealism. I have two projects for this one -- Travel by Air and Lucy Goosey and the UFO.




First up was Travel by Air which was inspired by Spirited Away with my own twist. I didn't put a person waiting for the train like I wanted to, but this still works. The background is as follows -- the sky is the water, the water the sky. To point that out, I left the ducks swimming in their supposed sky because I felt the sky could have been very clear, very reflective water. To keep the idea of surrealism, I put a steam train on some tracks that are freestanding on water. I can't explain our estatic I was to have the train fit said tracks with little skewing. The track tyings were made because the other ones were obviously from dirt.

The second one is Lucy Goosey and the UFO. I like how the UFO turned out considering it's some items I found in my room on short notice. The duck/goose thing is upside down and hopefully still noticable. I feel I should have drained the colors to red to give it a look of a destroyed society. The crumbling building sitting on some falling land helps.




I've been playing with the blur tool these two pictures. Don't know if it obtained a surreal image.

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Assignment #3: Word Art

Posted by selim_nagisokrov , 26.5.10 13:05

Civilization
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#1: Development:

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Five Layers makes up this interesting array. These are images from the Elizabethtown-Cecilia area, but they all tend to fall together. I was aiming for a more 1950s feel in surroundings, and hoped I aimed for that. The circles were designed to lead you in the last picture. I hoped that the first thing to catch your attention was the colorful image of the grassland, then you get the pink-tinted overlay of a loan building (the first structure?) That leads to a well developed area, possibly one of a downtown area in black and white. I wanted these to be symbolic that the color has the most life in it and the so called development causes that life to disappear as more happens. These are on a plain textile from lostandfound.


#2: Barbarism (Will be posted Thursday)
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This is an image based around an old abandoned farm which I started to white out into the sky a bit to give it a feeling of deteroration (which prolly can't be seen). I have a darker sky in it,a purplish which to me gives a more darker feeling but that again might not have moved.
I changed the picture froma series of purples to a series of reds to fade in with the fires. Like the last one I kept a series of circles.
Finally got the debris in the midground to avoid a long blank area. It's dark, in front ofi t a flame makes it look like a pile of sad didn't mean to do that.
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The point behind all of this was a fortune teller looking into an open fire and seeing an image. I gave it sort of a window view though. I'm not sure if barbarism was conveyed, since it's a really hard word to do because one person's barbarism is another man's civilization so it was hard to find just what I was looking for without looking condescending.

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Assignment #2: Fortune Cookie

Posted by selim_nagisokrov , 18.5.10 22:33








These two images are kind of similar, but there's different points to them. My fortune was "You will travel far and wide, both pleasure and business". I took a more concrete reading of these with these images. It may look like any normal coastline but there's a twist to this. That is the Ohio River just off the 2nd Street Bridge. The city? Chicago : D

I was going for a play on the horizon line, along the first dimensional line with some foreground and background. The focal point is the main building in the first shot. To avoid overcrowding I limited myself to five blended layers in each. When I redid the original picture, I played on the blues changing the sky, the water, and just giving it a heavier feel. I added a lochness monster because every lake need a lochness and i can't help but think that a fun thing to do is go to these places where supposed "beast" dwell and just gaze longly at their "existant" forms.
I call him "Roy". He's a happy lake monster. Favorite meals: little fishes, shoes, and lost children. He likes long walks on the beaches too, if you're interested in being dinner.

Personally, I like the bottom image the most it looks the most real like I was standing somewhere and took a shot, but that’s just my own opinion.

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