Project 4 Critique

One piece second will be the other side of bipolar disorder. 

It will be a green landscape and yellow to imply anxiety.

Project 4:Statement & Process

I would like to show the depths of anxiety. The unnerving sensations and an all-at-once type of feel that comes with that disorder. Anxiety is a terrible burden and mental illness is generally misunderstood and poorly received. I'd like to break through that barrier with an image that can give a sensation that is relatable.


Filter that created an edgy effect for the depressive side possibly of mental illness in general or darker side of anxiety, A depressed 'broken' feeling caused by the disorder.  I want to explore color for the individual shots. The concept I am also exploring is perhaps moving toward a hand illustrated appearance or actually some hand illustration scanned in.
Using the filter: Accented Edges
Edge Width 2
EB: 7
Smoothing: 2

This is my current progress I plan to work more on it from home, I may go with more of a general mental illness or a ‘void sensation’ showing loneliness, depression, isolation etc

 Found an icy background and stamped in the ground

 Copied and flipped the far left side

 Had a gap so I placed a tree in from the other side, trimmed it, edged it, 

tried to create some uniqueness to it

Found a gap and filled it with another tree

Added a blue hue through colorize-> hue/saturation and levels, 

adjusted foreground character to match.

I moved the figure to the left 1/3 of the image and found a set of icicles I liked to work with.
I think I might try to build a pattern/brush from them. I edited them to remove the blue wall which matched my current background conveniently, since some of that color will bleed through the ice. I also restored tips to some of the larger icicles that had lost them.

Started by removing skin imperfections before filter, because this was an issue that had to be dealt with after in previous image. Next reconstructing hand restoring missing top of head.

Remove background and select a couple of images to build my green landscape from.

I used a minimum of 4-5 green scenes to build a background and tinted the figure. The scenes included roads, trees to the left and right and a general background area. I also ghosted the area where the paths led off to. The figure I toned green also.

Project 3: Process

Originally I was doing a portrait but now a landscape.

His watch to show time, which still works, with original shadow

 

His watch and the flag he earned but never will see

Started adding photos of him, removed reflection from glass case and added a drop shadow,
thinking of older ones fading and newer ones starting to fade or deteriorate, but "the oldest fading from memory"
Changed background color to the color of his coffin.

Started adding new photos, to deteriorate, file broke. started over, repeating above process.

Removing reflection from flag

Fixed the flag again, worked on placement and change some effects on images

Artist statement and goals.

My goal is to build an image that conveys the passage from my father to me. The passage of time. I will utilize items such as his watch that still keeps time faithfully without him there to see it, his tools and items he wanted me to have, and possibly an oil lamp that he got from an elderly neighbor when he was a young man because he checked on her. He wanted me to have this oil lamp, perhaps because of the cycle of me following with care for him. It originally was the lady's wedding gift at 18 from her father, and is over 120 years old. I want the images to tell a story of passages without words.
I'm going to apply the idea of fading memories through deteriorating, burning appearance to the images.

Final Project 2

Project 3
40+ images

Process Project 2

Process Screenshots Project 2

A flower photo in background distorted in filters. 

O'Keeffe's head created a pattern in a  cross weave with a hint of color.

Same fill applied to the pattern by accident, does create interest.

Resulting image by adding color and working with masks and blending mode

Another version with spiral and some interesting contrasting color

Masked the layer of flowers and created a fill layer with pattern of her head.

The fill layer was duplicated 4 times to build line strength with the use of copier style filters.

Previously tinted parchment paper from the scanogram.

Applied this to a previously saved inverted version of the flower the pencil silhouette look for O'Keeffe's portrait is muted compared to the dramatic color.