Business Cards

This project was about making business cards using our 3 differently colored logos. My favorite is the first one because of the color scheme. This took me about 2 hours and a lot of breaks to pet my whiny cat. creating these business cards was really fun and helped me think about my actual art business. I think I will use the first one for my business because the colors really reflect me and the logo actually shows what I'm about. I'm really happy with these business cards.

 

Autoscopy

My autoscopy project reflects something I see a lot in my dreams including when I was in high school. Most of my dreams are more nightmare-ish and I rarely remember any pleasant dreams. My depression got really bad in late middle/ early high school and this image and other similar ones would always appear to me. I used to feel like I was drowning and being held down by multiple things and people. I am extremely proud of this image because it accurately reflects how I feel when I'm stressed out (very often). I'm glad that I was able to make all of the hands (mine and my fiancé's) look pretty cohesive with the original picture. This project took me maybe 2 hours of nothing but editing and wrestling my fiancé for pictures of her hands.
 

Somewhere

 I used to be a child model when I was younger and always dreamed of going back to modeling. For the Somewhere project, I took inspiration from that and photoshopped myself onto a catwalk. I loved watching America's Next Top Model and Rupaul's Drag Race when I was younger and still love watching shows involving creativity so I put my creativity on the stage as well. I could have done something better but I was on a time crunch and am still very new to photoshop. I am still proud of this project because I managed to make myself look pretty natural and like I belong. 

Pre- Somewhere

 

I feel this image will be difficult for me to photoshop myself into because I would have to also alter the skin tone on the hands and neck on top of photoshopping my face on.

I chose this image because the location is beautiful and the kittens are adorable. I would love to be chased by giant kittens down the aesthetic streets of wherever this is.

I chose this set of photos because I had not seen it before. I am a big fan of this guy online and his literal photoshopping jobs. This one is funny because instead of altering the man's face like the original person was hoping for, he just threw a towel over it so you cant see that he looks uncomfortable.

I would love to recreate something like this because professional cosplay pictures are some of the most photoshopped pictures ever and they always come out looking amazing. Professional cosplayers go above and beyond for their pictures and its completely worth it in the end.

BW to Color

 This project was probably my least favorite as it was less about creativity and more "You're stuck with these colors, use them". My favorite is the first one on the top left, the color palate was more my style and actually worked well with my picture. This took me a total of maybe four to six hours. I chose this picture because it is one of my favorite images of myself. I felt really good looking in this picture and it really boosted my confidence.

Tag Brush

 Making my own Tag Brush was a fun experience. I really like how it looks like a spray paint stencil. Its a symbol that I can now put on every single art piece I make in place of my signature and in a way it will kind of look like a mini person tagged the art. It's really cool to me and I can't wait to use it to tag all of my artwork going forward.

Portrait & Propaganda

     

  

               

This is my Portrait and Propaganda Poster project. This is my absolute favorite project I've created. The picture I used was a selfie I took was of me in a wig that I usually use for cosplay. The wig gives me a lot of confidence that I usually don't have. Cosplaying is one of my favorite activities because I get to display my creativity and talent with costumes and makeup. My Propaganda poster is about being black in the cosplay community. Many black cosplayers are looked down upon and made fun of for "not being the accurate skin color". This makes a lot of black coplayers and cosplayers of color in general, myself included, feel less appreciated in the cosplay community. They feel like they can't cosplay certain characters just because of how they look. My poster is for all of the black cosplayers who feel like they aren't beautiful. I just wanted to share that black coplayers are beautiful and can cosplay whatever character they want because the characters are fictional.