Hill Hollow

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The most recent project I have completed, and possibly one of the best I have done so far in my opinion. My little sister went trick-or-treating with some of her friends. I adored the costume our mom bought her. It was a red and black Victorian style dress that she planned on wearing to her Christmas dance. It appeared formal enough. She dressed as a vampire. She told me one of the two friends who were planning on staying the night directed them to a reservoir on the way home. There was a woods nearby where they took photos. Seth, one my friends and the photographer of the image above, did an amazing job and captured some truly frightening but magnificent photographs. Catherine was also the other friend who was present. Shortly after Halloween, we had to create a movie poster whether in a theatrical release style or a billboard style. I chose the latter of the two. I used this picture of my sister, filtered it in Photoshop, and added the name of her two friends and my boyfriend as the actors. It almost makes me wish this movie was real, although I am not usually a fan of scary movies. I used a name that I heard from my boyfriend as the title of the movie. I hope he does not mind that I used it without his permission. *laughs*
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I really like the effect I chose for the photograph. The text for Hill Hollow is somewhat difficult to read even though I tried to make it easier by adding a texture. I am pleased with how it almost looks like an actual movie poster.
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Created November 19, '08.
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Photoshop CS3.
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Picture (C) Alice Falling

Crunchy Critters

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Yet another project we had to do in digital design. We had to create a cereal box with the name of Crunchy Critters. Instead of choosing something cute and adorable, the masochistic part of me decided to take the name to a literal meaning. *laughs* This was also the first project in this class that I worked on at home. I wanted to shade the cat the way I usually shade my own Photoshop images, but the tablet was harder to use on the school computers. The settings were different and I could not figure out how to change them. So I completed this project over the weekend.
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I love how the cat turned out although I was picturing more of a tabby cat instead. I did not want to take too much time drawing out stripes though. The hands and foot look a little strange but from a cartoon point of perspective I thought it would do. The photograph of the spoon I took was blurry and I could not capture a sharper image so the spoon ended up pixelated. The drop shadows were fun to insert. I wish I could have used a better font for the text at the bottom of the picture but I did not feel like exerting too much effort on that section. Overall, this was a fun project to create.
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Created November 15, '08.
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Photoshop CS3.
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Picture (C) Alice Falling

Horrified

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Another project I did in my digital design class. This was assigned close to Halloween, and I was still suffering from a Twilight obsession. Our project was to create an image that was disturbing in same way. I do not think this image is altogether disturbing, apart from the blood, but I still met the requirements. Except I did not use an original photograph and we were suppose to, but my teacher let it slide this time for which I was thankful.
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The blood was too pink before and I needed help changing the hue. The vampire teeth look somewhat fake, but I did not put too much effort in to that area. It took a lot of manipulation, but overall I was extremely pleased with the end result. I only wish I had made the image larger from the beginning.
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Created November 4, '08.
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Photoshop CS3.
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Picture (C) Alice Falling

Cyborg Photocollage

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I have not updated my page in quite some time. I have been too busy working on schoolwork to draw anything more than brief sketches in my free time. I have several pieces I did in my drawing class, but my teacher is holding on to them so I am unable to post them up. I hope to talk to him soon so I will be able to. In my digital design class, I have a few projects I did in Photoshop that turned out to my liking. This is one of the projects we were required to do. We had to find images from the Internet and use them along with a photograph of ourselves in order to alter them and make it appear as though we were a cyborg or robot. I started out with a photo of myself that I took. Our teacher had metal skulls that we could use and, with much manipulation, I was able to pull my skin over the form and add electronic accessories to it. To top it off, I chose to have my head suspended in a tank of water or a fluid of some type. To my surprise, my teacher decided to send this piece to the Scholastics art show, although I do not think it is one of my best Photoshop works. I did have fun creating this image however.
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The face turned out slightly lopsided because I placed it at the wrong angle and had already done too much to go back and fix it. The "ear" I suppose it could be called was sloppily cropped but I tried not to make it noticeable. The watery effect was not exactly what I was aiming for but I could not find anything better. My favorite parts are the drop shadows cast by the wires and the eyes. I had the most fun with the eyes the most and disturbed many of my classmates in the process. *laughs*
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Created October 9, '08.
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Photoshop CS3. (Yes, we do get to use the new Photoshop! I do not like it as much as Photoshop 7. This is much harder to get used to.)
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Picture (C) Alice Falling