Week 9: Digital painting.
The first image is from the tutorial provided. The second is a picture I took here in Sequim in Autumn a few years ago, original first, the painted version second. I experimented with a lot of different brushes and sizes, and sampled many different colors to try and recreate the scene rather than obliterate it with paint. I found the round brushes, lightly loaded, did best for the leafy trees, whereas a heavier angled brush seemed to do better for the evergreens. The skeletal tree on the far left was done with a pointed brush in a soft deep grey and brown, zoomed WAY in, while the landscapes (mountains, foliage, field) were washed with a fan brush or stippled with short strokes with a slightly smaller fan.
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Week 9: Paragraph text poured into a work path.
One of my favorite books is The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis, which is a philosophical work about the different types of love. One of my favorite quotes from the book deals with the ramifications of shutting oneself off from the possibility of pain by refusing to love. This is a theme repeated in the recent film, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, where the character, Davy Jones, falls in love with a tempestuous and changeable woman, Calypso, and because his heart pains him so much, he cuts it out of his chest and keeps it in a locked box, "safe from all the dangers and perturbations of Love." But in so doing, he becomes desperately wicked-- the embodiment of cruelty. I thought an image of Davy Jones would be a fitting one for framing my quote; I also included an image of his chest.
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Week 9: Animated GIFs in Photoshop.
I had fun with this; it was a totally new concept to me.
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