The process of this drawing was very tedious. The first step was to brainstorm compositions and figure out what area of the display you were going to draw. After you had decided, on your rough copy, you had to block in the rough idea of the shadows. Once that was finished you got you're big paper and had to do a contour sketch of all the details in your two objects. After that step you had to block in all of your shadows or shifts in light and then you could move on to filling your blocked in shadows with your lightest shade. Once your lightest shadows were in place you could go in with your second lightest shade until you got to your darkest (about 4-5 shades total) and then you were done. 


The composition i chose for my drawing was the diagonal composition. you can tell this because my objects are placed in the bottom left corner and flow upward towards the top right corner. The point of this is do have the eye look for the bottom left to the top right. The vase on the  top left corner helps balance out the heaviness and helps make the bottom right corner less empty. 
  

Self Portrait Analysis

Photorealism Self Portrait

1. The art style i chose of this assignment was Photorealism.The purpose of this style us to use invisible paint strokes to create the look of an actual photograph. 

2. In order to achieve the look of Photorealism, i used the same colour skin tone and used a blending tool to create the smooth look of a photograph.

3. First what i did was i made a layer over top of the original photograph and outlined distinguished features with a dark brown colour. Then, i painted over different features on multiple different layers to make it easy to edit and manipulate each one to my liking.

4. i do feel that if i had enough time i would have done a better job, but for the time i was given and taking into account how many times i restarted, i am satisfied with the end result. 

Art Nouveau

Lighting for Photography

Split Lighting 

This is an example of Split Lighting. i know this because half of her face is shadow, and the other half is covered with light.

Loop Lighting 

This is and example of Loop Lighting.  I know this because of the small shadow around her right nostril. 

Rembrandt

This is an example of Rembrandt lighting. I know this because of the small triangle of light underneath her left eye. 

Photography

Shallow Depth of Field

These Photos are examples of Shallow depth of field because the focus is on a very close subject and the background is blurred. 

Long Depth of Field

These photos are examples of a long depth of field because both of these photos focus on a point off in the distance.

Slow Shutter speed

These photos are examples of a slow shutter-speed. this is because the subject were in motion and because the shutter-speed was so slow, caused the picture to become blurred. 

Fast Shutter speed

These photos are examples of a fast shutter-speed. this is because the subject was in motion, but the shutter was so fast it caught the subject in motion.

ISO 100

these photos are examples of pictures taken with ISO 100. you can tell because the environment in both pictures are bright, therefore there is no need for a high ISO. Because of this, the picture looks smooth.

ISO 3200

These are examples of pictures being taken with an ISO of 3200. High ISO is mainly used when taking pictures in the dark. this helps the picture look smooth, and less grainy. 

6 Types of Lighting

Rembrandt Lighting

Split Lighting

Loop Lighting

Butterfly Lighting

Short Lighting

Broad Lighting

Surrealism Photography

1. The message I want to portray in this photograph is that school stresses students out. It doesn't matter if it's homework, tests, or extracurricular, if  students have a lot of homework and tests to study for, it can take a huge toll on their health and wellbeing, both physically and mentally. When students are bombarded with schoolwork and other things, they might not have time to finish all of it because of personal reasons, then the teachers get them in trouble plus their marks drop. When the marks drop, so does the students self confidence, then they'll just stop trying and give up all together.

2. I actually didn't have any sketches close to my finished product, this is because a quarter of the way through, I changed my idea. I was taking pictures of my friend when I decided that I wanted to make my photo a school setting, but I couldn't think of anything related to school and social issues so I started getting really stressed because I was running out of time, then....it hit me... my topic would be schools stressing out students. So I took a picture of Angel in the hallway and got to work.  I wanted my photo to be creepy in a way so I was more focused on the physical toll that stress can take.  I looked up hot to put a cut and peeling effect on photos and found a really good video on YouTube here. I found  some images of peeling and cracking  paint and placed them on top of the picture of Angel. I proceeded to create a layer mask and selected my brush tool, I erased the parts of the picture I didn't need and matched the colour of the image to angels skin tone, making her skin look cracked, and un-moisturized. I played around with contrast and brightness until I was satisfied and created a red gradient over top of the image making it look more spooky.

3.  I learned lots of things during this project, many of them being Photoshop Techniques like, using masks, merging 2 photos together, and using the gradient tool. Even though I changed my idea im happy with how it turned out because it looks really nice and professional….in my eyes anyway.