Painted Sphere

Here are two copies of the sphere I am working on. The top picture is my first attempt, I am not entirely pleased with it due to the striations in the shadow. These lines make the sphere more matte looking versus the glossy look we are trying to duplicate. This picture would look fine if we wanted the rougher looking sphere, however we don't. The second picture is my next try where i am working on making the sphere look more like the original picture that we want to recreate. This project is pretty tough due to the issues of painting and how it creates either a blotchy look or lines of different colors. I would like to see if I can start over again and instead of using a flow of 1 use a opacity of 1. This might make a more even looking shadow or highlight I would like to test it though to find out.

Painted Sphere

Today we were told to paint a photo realistic sphere. This seemed really daunting at first but once I got started it wasn't so bad. However I ran in to the issue that my painting looks like just that, a painting. My strokes make it look more like a hand painted sphere than a photo of one. I plan to fix this and hopefully make it look more like a photo.

Painting A Sphere

In this picture you see a sphere. I created this by painting a regular blue circle with varying shades of the same color. i created a shadow on one side opposite where I placed the hotspot. The hotspot shows which direction the light is shining on the sphere from. My next goal is to create a realistic shadow for the sphere.

Experiments with brushes

In Photoshop we are learning about different brushes and how the brush tool works. We are also learning the different ways we can manipulate the tool. in the pictures below i first changed the different settings that the brushes have. I had scattered the pattern and also changed the hue so it would cycle through colors. I also had multiple brushes stack on one another. After that i created gradients by painting one color at a time in order to create a picture that looked like the colors were blending into the others.

Fractals

Today I was working with Apophysis and experimenting with different settings. These are what I got...

One Point Perspective Room

Here is my room which I made using One Point Perspective. I added a door, a rug, and a window and I plan to add a television soon.

Haunted House

I this picture I added some paint damage to the house as well as some Graffiti . I think this adds to the picture making it feel more creepy.

Drawing a One Point Perspective Room

Here are two shots of my room using one point perspective. The first is without the guides and the second is with them. I made the walls, the floor and the ceiling using the line tool.

Haunted House

Here is my updated haunted house. I'm not really proud of it yet, but I'm unsure of how to improve it. I added some fog and gravestones along with darkening the sky. I think this would've been easier to do if I had had a different house. The house I have currently, has issues because the picture itself was odd and there were issues with the colors becoming over-saturated. I think I fixed most of those problems but I still don't feel comfortable stopping here.

One point Perspective

Here is a diagram showing the parts of a One Point Perspective photo. The red lines show lines from the picture which all lead to the Vanishing Point. The Vanishing point is shown as a blue dot, this dot is also located on the Horizon Line shown in green. The light blue lines indicate the vertical lines in the photo.

Huanted House- Restart

Here is that start of my newest attempt at the haunted house.

 These above are some more abstracts I created using Apophysis.

 This is my attempt at lightning. While it may not look realistic due to the colors, I wanted to learn how to for future use.

This is a continuation of my haunted house. I had to start over because my pictures were not big enough. I am not done with this nor am I totally pleased. i think It could use some improvement with getting the colors and the lighting correct. This house has been a challenge for me and i am still not sure what I could do to make it look haunted enough while still retaining the integrity of the picture.

Fractals

Today I used Apophysis to create these 3 Fractals.

Haunted House

Here is my Haunted house. It is still a work in progress, however it is getting there. Today i added some sun rays but they aren't very visible. I also added broken windows along with some adjustments with the brightness and contrast.

Walking Gif

Here is my first attempt at creating cyclic animated gif.

Human Eye- Maya Practice

I know this isn't Photoshop, however I wanted to create a human eye in Maya. So i got a DVD that shows me how to and I am currently working on this.

Color Change Practice

Here is the original photo I wanted to work with...

And after a bunch of selection and messing with levels I managed to change both the color of her armor as well as make the background less intense to allow some detail through I also gave her some shadow...

Spider-Doo-Edit

Here is my attempt at putting the Spider-Man eyes onto Scooby. I still need to fix the coloring and the fit a little bit.

Spider-Doo-FINISHED

Here is my completed Spider-Doo, however I do plan to continue working on it and finishing the second Spider-Man and also add the eyes from the Spider-Man mask onto both heads.

House Project

Here are some of the houses I am looking at changing into a haunted house.

Here I am starting to make my Spider-Doo, I chose a harder photo to work with because it has two different versions of Spider-Man. In this picture I have put the head of Scooby Doo onto the body of Spider-Man. UP next I plan to add webbing to  Scooby's face.

Rhino-Zebra hybrid FINISHED

In this project I took a zebra and a rhino from two separate pictures and merged them together using a wide variety of tools in Photoshop. I then painted an extra layer to shadow and give the zebra-rhino thing some depth and some effects of dirt.

Second Signature

I just was messing around and created this using various tools and multiple layers. i also used the lasso tool to cut out the original photo.

FINAL- Statue cut out

I cut out the blue sky around the Statue of Liberty using the lasso and magic wand tools in Photoshop.

FINAL- Signature

Here is my first attempt at creating a signature

FINAL- Dog

In this project I had to remove some telephone poles and a huge tree, I also had to get rid of a few small people in the background.

FINAL- Street

Finished the street picture. I edited out some light poles a sign for some stores and a car.