This is one of the pieces i was working on this week. The second half of the year we are focusing on photos. We had three tutorials this week and i completed one, the one above. And the second drawing one i am almost completed with. I kinda went of course the tutorial for this one. I used the filters and how to black out the eyes, But i added the scratch to her and played with the contrast of the picture. I added the blood drip and used the burn tool to make her look evil.

Our first week back we had a new project, something we haven't done before. We had to work with portraits. Me, Ryan and cole went around school and took various pictures of each other. We each had to do three portraits, and this is one of the Three i've done. I used various filters and HDR to edit the images. Tis one i used HDR.  I will post the other images i've completed later.

After the speaker we had last week in our assembly, it made me thing about what we are doing to the wildlife. He mentioned the florida panther becoming extinct because of roads that cut off connection between the rest of the continent. So i decided to make a propaganda piece to try and protest to help save the florida panther.

This is the second piece i made this week. The first one was a Hanukkah card i made for the holidays. This piece i made in the style of a contest on worth1000.com However, instead of following the guidelines for the contest, i wanted to do it my own way. I didn't want to use a celebrity so i used a fellow classmate Safe. I put a mini version of him on his lap. I warped his feet to make it look they are dangling. I also used perspective e to make it look more real and i also added a shadow to wee he was sitting.

This week in class we had to do a propaganda piece. I chose to make a piece into a school rule. At Shorecrest, you are not aloud to have tattoos, but if you do, you must have it covered up. So i used a old piece of my class mate Dylan, and made him black and white, an out cast. Along with the rest of the class walking away. The i put some expressions and a catch line i came up with, Personal expression prevents depression. Which in fact i think does. If people cant express your self, infact they will become depressed.

This week in class we could do what ever we wanted. So i took it upon my self to learn something new. I found a tutorial on PSD tuts about the camera raw filter in photoshop. Unfortunately, I dont have the plug in, so i had to go into adobe bridge and use the program from there. I took a picture of my fathers car and played around in camera raw for a class period until i figured it out. Then i played with all the adjustments, there are so many! After I experimented with the adjustments, and got them how i wanted it to look, I put this image back in Photoshop and used HDR on it. I only mildly affected in HDR so it still looks real but also so it looks slightly edited.

This is a piece i made in the style of Zadith Sarazeeya. I took a picture of a fellow class mate Dylan and used him in my piece. I am not completely finished but i almost am. I took him and added the tattoos to his arms and neck. I also put the cigarette in to make him look hard. The tattoos took a while to integrate but i finally got them and i think they look pretty good.  I may add a few more depending on how much time i have.