I have three new pictures! One is an assigned project, the splatphant.
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| When he grew older, Dumbo tried out painting. It didn't work so well. |
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I think this piece looks good. It's definitely successful since it looks like it's supposed to, and everything worked as it was supposed to. If I were to do it over, though, I'd probably fiddle around with the paint layer a little more to make it look more natural. The most difficult part of this piece was erasing the paint just enough so that nothing went off the elephant. In doing this piece, I learned how to manage different layer modes and what they do, specifically the darken mode.
I used my new knowledge of layer modes to create an extra piece, the shocktopus.
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| Wait....wouldn't that be dangerous to everything in the water? |
I like this piece more than the splatphant. The effect looks a lot more realistic than the paint effect on the splatphant, and it looks a lot more successful. Again, everything that I did worked the way I wanted it to. I honestly don't think I'd make any changes to this project if I were to do it again. The most difficult part about completing this piece was finding a good layer mode to get the removal I wanted. After I was finished, I had learned that the screen mode was best for something like this, as it removed the black and smoothly transitioned into the lightning.
Last but not least is my newimal, the giraffestrich!
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| So majestic....so beautiful....so pin-headed. |
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I'm really proud of how I did on this piece. It looks pretty nice. I think I succeeded in making a nice, semi-natural looking picture on this one. As usual, everything worked the way I wanted to, which is a relief. I thought this project would be more difficult. However, if I was to do it over again, I'd fix one spot in the neck that looks a little blurry. The most difficult part of this piece was going back to the original giraffe picture I used the clone stamp on and covering the ostrich's neck and legs. I enjoyed this piece, as it allowed me to learn how to apply everything I had learned to one image.
That's it for now.
