Week 6 & 7

These week were intresting. We used a program i had never tried before called painter and i have to say i think its awesome. It allows you to create some really wild pieces of art without really doing much. It also allows you to create paintings useing brushes in the program. The brushes in this program work pretty much the same way they do in real life, you can change the thinkness depending on hom much presure you use, you can mix colours manually in a pallete as you would in real life and painting to different colours over one another on the picture creates a blending affect with i thought was real handy.
I spent so much time mucking around and just trying all the different settings on this thing that i didnt actually finish an pictures, i was more or less experimenting with all the tools and brushes and affects i had at my disposal.
We also tried tablets in class as well which i have to say did not work for me in the slightest. I know that its probably because im not used to useing them but i just find them really awkard. They tend to be overly sensitive to everywhere you move and touch, the click when you dont want to click or vice versa and they dont give the result the same way a pen and paper would. I gave it a shot and found that free hand drawing, as you would with a pen and paper, is a nightmare on the tablet and i even prefered using a mouse over it.

First Sin Gluttony

This is a picture ive been working on in class fro a while now. GLUTTONY Rawr! Mix of photo editing and a collage i think i works reasonably well and it gets my point across. Gluttony is the sin of overussage waste, in other words takeing more then you need to and then throwing it away. I think this picture represents that rather well with all the trash and pollution in the background. I wanted to use a sureal face eatting into the world to give a more monsterous look while retaining some humanish features to it.
The hands were the biggest problem with this picture, i couldnt find any hands that worked well with it so i instead took a picture of me holding a basketball then just photoshoped my hands around the ball. I also originally planned on createing a body with this picture but it just made the picture to crowded with too many things fighting for your attention so instead i just left it as hands and a head.

Week 4

I must say i liked the idea of editing photos, it allows people to take real things and put a surreal twist on them. I am planning on useing this for a couple of my Seven deadly sins pictures. Envy was one i was deffinately going us this style of photo art for but i am still debating whether i want to use it for any other.
Ive never been big on photography, although ive never really tried it out to much extent. I have of course used digital cameras before but never for any ary purposes. It was fun giving it a try in class this week but i cant say ive really warmed to it much. I prefer manipulating and creating pictures I imagine.