Low Poly Self Portrait

Peel-back Watercolor

For this project, I was told to find an image of a place I identified with. I chose a picture of a treehouse because I like the forest and I used to love climbing trees and I've always wanted a treehouse. I put the photo on photoshop, made it just 2 colors (black and white), and printed it it. Then I used a light table to trace the image in pencil. Then I used adhesive paste and painted the sections of the image I wanted white with it. Then I used watercolors to paint the background that I didn't use the paste on. I used blue, green, and purple for the background because darker colors contrast white more. Then I peeled off the paste which had dried and hardened which left the tree and the treehouse all white.

December Wallpaper

This was a project I made in 2 days during a shortened school week. I took a picture of a frozen lake and then cropped it to fit the page's dimensions, Then I took an image of snow falling, lowered the opacity and placed it on top of the frozen lake picture. I added a 'wind' feature to the snow to make it look like the snow was blowing hard. Then I took a picture of a couple ice skating, cut them out and placed them on the frozen lake. I changed the girl's scarf from white to red to ad contrast and used a sponge filter to make them more blurry. Finally I typed the word "December" and changed the font and color to match the ice.

Surreal Montage

For this project I was tasked with finding photos online and from magazines and create a picture combining them all in an interesting way. I chose to take pictures of African animals but make them into stars in the sky. I took pictures of a giraffe, a lion, a bird and an elephant and cut out the backgrounds of the pictures. Then I took the shapes of the animals and made the animal silhouettes using a star background. Then I placed the animal silhouettes on top of a picture of the night sky I took and changed the brightness and contrast of the animals to make them stand out but still make them appear to be made out of stars. I took a photo of an African savannah in the daytime and changed the colors and darkness levels to make it look like the picture was taken at night I'm pretty happy with the way way it came out; the eye goes right to the animals when someone sees the montage. It's very Lion King-inspired and I guess you could say it represents all the endangered animals that get killed in Africa and how they now roam in the stars.

Hybrid Animal

For the Hybrid Animal project, I chose to make a combination of a snow leopard and a snowy owl. I picked these animals because they have similar color patterns. I took a picture of a snow leopard jumping and then I cropped off the wings of a snowy owl picture and put them on the leopard. I used rock formations from a cliff and put mountains and sky in the background. This made my animal look like it was jumping off a high rock and taking flight. I had extra time so I decided to make a cub for the adult. I took a picture of a baby snow leopard and gave it littler wings. Finally I duplicated the animals, blackened the images, faded them, and used them as shadows; which I'm pretty proud of. I call my hybrid animal a Snowy Leopowl.

Kaleidoscope

For the kaleidoscope project, I picked the theme of the 4 elements: water, earth, fire, and air. For fire I drew a flame, for earth I drew some green leaves, for water I drew a water drop, and for air I drew a double spiral to try to look like wind. Then, I scanned the images and uploaded them to photoshop. I layered the 4 pictures on top of each other in different ways and cut a triangle out of the layers. Then I duplicated the triangle and flipped it horizontally to make it symmetrical. Then I used the triangles to make a hexagon that had lines of symmetry from each corner to its opposite corner. Then, I duplicated the hexagon enough times to fill up the photoshop page and it made a kaleidoscope effect. 

I made 3 different kaleidoscopes. Each has a horizontal line of symmetry. However some hexagons were easier to line up than others.

15 Green Things

For this project I chose to use the 15 random images to make the head of the dragon

1. Grass - I used it as a pattern on the dragon's neck
2. Max/baby - I just used the dotted background to make a pattern on the dragon's snout
3. Laura City - I took the texture of her coat and used it as a base for any part of the dragon I was missing
4. Fireworks - I took the design above the words and made it like the dragons eye socket and brow ridge
5. Free Air - I used the box labeled "free air" to make scales on the dragon's lower neck
6. Trees - I cut out the shape I wanted from the picture and made it the dragon's lower jaw
7. Daisy - I used the cat's ears to make the dragon's frills
8. Wheelchair - I used the body of the man in the wheelchair symbol to outline the dragon's head
9. Hands - I cut out the hands and used them to make part of the dragon's jaw
10. Street Arrow - I warped duplicated the arrow and made them into horns for the dragon
11. Arch - I cut out the image inside the arch and used it as piece that was missing in the dragon's head
12. Car - I cut out the car's headlight and made it into the dragon's eye
13. Apples - I warped the apples and made them into scales on the dragon's upper jaw
14. Meter - I took the top of the parking meter and used it to make the end of the dragon's snout
15. Sam funny - I cut out the boy's teeth and warped them into dragon's teeth