This piece is a continuation from the first exercise, Unity. The text is hard to read, but possible if you try hard enough. At the bottom-right is a QR Code leading to the original essay and the credits for the background images.
First idea for a tile in Variations. This tile is 500×600 pixels, meaning I would have to make a 12×10 grid of these. This character’s origin has the most variations prepared before-time, making it the best candidate.
120 variations of Sam McCurdy from my comic, Betajam. From left to right, sorted by rows*: 1: Classic, Alt 1, Inverted, True Inversion, Red Carpet, Toon, Hard Edge, Sam Noire, Swapped, Shifted, Yellowed, Shadowed 2: Devil, Alt 2, Sam On Ice, Magenta, Godly, EOG, Moto, Blue, Creepy, Sam Scarlet, Leaf Green, Nyanja 3: No-Red, Alt 3, Silver/Rock, Zombie, Tangerine Curvy, Sam Sam, Shadow Sam, Negative Space, Gold, Design Switched, Indigo, Rainbow Map 4: Cat McCurdy, Alt 4, Sam McBrudy?, Light, 1/7 1/15, Cyan Yellow Green, EEEEVILLLL, Reaper McCurdy, Honey, CyGrYe, Sam as Trebor?, Sam as Croni?
The following has been done using a font called Tschichold, made in memory of Jan Tschichold. The list on the left shows the fonts Tschichold made during his lifetime, and the years on the right display his life span (1902-1974).
Dali and his cat. In this exercise, we explored the lasso, magic wand, rounded rectangle, text, and quick select tools. The mustache and eyes from Dali were copied over and pasted onto his cat. The rounded rectangle as well as the text have a custom blend mode to make an interesting color mix.
It has taken a long time, but she has finally risen in the ranks to the commander. Amelia Earhart is now the commander of the first women-only air force squadron. This exercise was made with use of the clone, dodge, and burn tools, as well as the noise filter. This picture gets two different kinds of pictures and attempts to make them as one. Since Amelia Earhart’s picture is monochromatic, we had to make the whole image grayscale with a black and white filter.
The first sketch I made. Roughest sketch of the 3. The background is the GO logo with a different color scheme. The blackbird and stick figure are still there, but the stick figure’s body, arms, and head are replaced with the entirety of the person image. A cropped part of the indoors image is behind the blackbird.
The second sketch of the 3. A lot more cropping and balance, and I experimented with the healing brush tool. The background is the waffle chair, but with a rough attempt of copying the background with just the healing brush tool. I liked this background, and was thinking about making it the background for my final artwork. The person’s head is on the stick figure, and the soccer ball is being held by them, too. The thought bubble above the blackbird is the GO logo, spread by use of the healing brush tool. The blackbird has a different look due to the healing brush tool, and the stick figure retains its legs and arms and some sections of its other body parts. The 13 is centered above.
The final sketch I made. A lot more simplistic. The background is the lines from the GO logo copied horizontally and some places vertically, then the healing brush tool applied down it. The stick figure and blackbird are playing baseball, and the blend of this layer makes it almost fade in and out of the image. I liked this effect, and thought about also using it for the background of the final artwork. The baseball bat is the indoors light saber with a poster wrapped around it. The soccer ball is from the person image.
Using the four images created earlier (indoors, person, go, Thirteen Ways tribute), I created an exquisite corpse. The top and bottom borders are composed of the GO logo’s three dashed lines repeated across the page and a couple of times vertically. The background is the indoors waffle chair texture repeated across the image. The head of the exquisite corpse is a highly-saturated form of the person’s soccer ball, as well as the tribute’s blackbird’s head and beak. The torso is the tribute’s body and wings, while the legs are the legs of the stick figure man thrice-repeated. The arms are the person’s cropped-out arms. Every part of the corpse itself has an orange tint. The words “GOLEM MAN” are made from different pieces of the four pictures chosen. There was no representative from the indoors area, but that is the background. The “A” is from the person’s “A” on their shirt. The “GO” comes from the GO logo. The “LE” is the 1 and 3 from the 13 in the tribute flipped 180 degrees. The “M” in “GOLEM”, as well as the “N” in “MAN”, are made from the stick figure’s legs, and the “M” in “MAN” is made from the blackbird’s feet. This piece pays homage to Mega Man.
This piece uses importing layers to create a body out of many different body parts, as well as how to make a modifying layer. The background consists of two hands overlapping with additive blending, then covered with a cool blue wash. The orange parts are moved and proportionally resized to create an “exquisite corpse” in a sense. The added layer of orange only affects the body parts, and not the hands as the background.
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