Teacher Creature
In this project, we had the goal to superimpose a teacher's head onto a new body (hence the raccoon) their was other guidelines such as trying to add a hairpiece or hat, as well as adding a background. I started on the project by finding a good image of a raccoon that happened to take about 2 minutes mainly because I already had a picture of a raccoon and then a picture of a forest was another good thing to tackle. I picked the black forest in Germany but I can't remember if I used that image or not all these pictures of forests start to blend together if you stare at them long enough. I then superimposed the teacher's face onto the body of a raccoon and soften the edges of the face to make it fit better as well as dim the tone of his face to make it fit better. Then the raccoon was applied over the forest and I put a filter over it to make all the tones match, I also added a few extras like Edward Abbey as a raccoon. Hardest part of the project was finding little filler characters to add against the blank space and then having them hide in the natural environment around them. I also really just did not want to add anything pop culture and or a current popular trend because I am a contrarian, nevertheless it felt really lazy to use popular references.
Tutorials
Edited image of Weezer with transparent text
This effect that is used to make the transparent text appear that way is done through a process. I first wrote the text that I wanted to make transparent, then I used the effect beveled and emboss to make the sides and borders more seeable. I then went on to drop the opacity giving it that transparent effect. There was other things done, like putting the Weezer band members over a background but that's a different thing. Picture within text project
I first wrote the word I wanted to use for this project which was "SMIR". I then created a new fill layer from that text dropped the opacity to none and put the image under it. I also raised the amount shadow on the edges to make it easier to see. Pixel art project
This was done by selecting a one size brush and zooming in very close to select one pixel at a time. I quite like this one. |
Original image of weezer
Original image used for the picture within a text.
Car hue
using the pen tool I selected all around this car besides the tires. I then make that selected area a new layer and by adjusting hue and saturation giving it a unique and hip color scheme. |