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Saturday, November 19, 2011

Avatar-ded

This is an Adobe Photoshop project from Computer Art I, sophomore year at SLU. The assignment was to use Photoshop to edit a picture of yourself to look like a monster. James Cameron's Avatar was in theaters, and while I wasn't wild about the movie itself, I thought the visuals were gorgeous and really liked the overall design ethic. I tried to keep my original skin texture as much as possible. 


I remember it being pretty well received by my professor and classmates. Most people had done vampires and zombies, and they liked my more understated approach.

Jen with a Pearl Earring


This is a picture of a high school classmate, taken in freshman year. I kind of became fixated on how much she looked like Vermeer's painting Girl with a Pearl Earring, and so I convinced her to let me take some pictures of her in the study room of the school library. I made a pair of earrings for her out of polymer clay and some shimmery nail polish. 

The most recent version, enhanced in Photoshop:





















The original Vermeer, for comparison:


























The first version, done in MS Paint: