Lacey Reid
Feb 19 '15
Lacey Reid
Memories on My Skin
Adobe Photoshop Elements
Feb 19 ‘15
TECHNICAL
For
this project I used burning, dodging, and layer blending. I used burning and
dodging to fix up the photos of Brandon (left side) and David (right side) to
make them look more professional and I used layer blending to make the puppy in
the top right corner not stand out as much. I also used layer blending to make
Brandon (left side), fit better into the piece as a whole.
IDEA OR CONCEPT
The idea behind the piece to show
my experience at the Vans Warped Tour. I wanted to include photos of the bands
I saw and other music related pictures to emphasis the fact that Warped Tour is
a music festival. I used other cute pictures, ex: the puppy in the top right
corner and the sleeping star in the bottom right corner, to show how I was
feeling throughout the day. Happy, tired and excited!
The
one idea that changed while I was putting the piece together was the idea of
having only one actual band member included, which was going to be Brandon
(left side). As I continued to work I felt the right side needed someone as well
so I added David. I really liked the way it looked with him in it so I decided
to keep it that way. By doing this I had to change where I was going to place
the puppy and I also had to mess with the opacity of the sleeping star until it
looked right.
Another
idea I had was to liquefy the background image and make a new layer out of it.
This added a wavy effect to the background and helped to complete the motion of
the piece as a whole.
INFLUENCES
When it
comes to art I only have a few major influences, they’re not famous artists or
anything but they still create some awesome and unique pieces as a hobby. These
people are Angelo Parente, a tattoo artist and the former drummer of one of my favorite
bands called Motionless in White, I really like his work, he designs clothing
and tattoos, I don’t know what it is about his work that I like but everything
he does has something there that just screams “Angelo!” Another person that
influences my art is Davey Suicide. He’s the lead singer of his band, Davey
Suicide, he paints as a side project and like Angelo all of Davey’s work has
something that screams “Davey!” He likes to take famous people and paint them
in his own way, you can still tell who he’s painting but it’s always somewhere
between realistic and cartoony. Other people who influence my work are Andy
Biersack, Brandi Annette and Michael Kuza.
All of
these people influence my work. I’s hard to say exactly how they influence me
though, I always have these people in mind when I’m working on something new
but I think the way they influence me the most is through motivation. They’re
all amazing at what they do and that motivates me to do better so one day I
might be as good as they are.
MOTIVATION
Like I
said before there are a lot of things that influence me and most are members of
the bands I like or even their girlfriends, like Brandi who is the girlfriend
of James Cassells drummer of Asking Alexandria. My motivation for this
particular piece was how going to Warped Tour and meeting some of my favorite bands
in person affected me. I can’t remember a time that I’ve ever been as happy as
I was when I was at Warped. I felt at home and accepted, everyone there was
like me in a way we all bonded over the fact that we liked the same music and
that none of us were easily accepted by our peers or the people around us. At
Warped Tour we all accepted each other no matter what we wore or how we looked,
it was like you were suddenly part of this big family of outcasts that actually
understood you! It was an amazing feeling! By using Warped Tour as my main
focus of the piece I got to relive that experience and I also get to share it
with others who see my work.
CRITICAL ASSESSMENT
I really
like the way the liquefied background layer looks and how it added to the flow
of the piece I feel like it worked out really well even though I was only
messing around and trying out the liquefication tool. I also feel like the
music notes on the ledger lines ties the whole thing together and just completes
the flow of the piece as a whole.
I was
surprised to find how much changing one little aspect of a photo could affect
it! In some cases you don’t have to do much to make a photo look professional
or more put together than it originally was.
With
additional time I think I might have played with the colors a bit more and
tried to use mostly red, yellow, and blue seeing as those are the Vans Warped
Tour official colors. It would have just added to the emphasis I was putting on
the idea of being at Warped.
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