HARRY POTTER HARRY POTTER!

So... for my book cover assignment in Computers and Art I have decided to do Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone! WOOHOO I LOVE Harry Potter! Anyway the I decided to take pictures for the assignment cause it is a Photoshop assignment, PERFECT! Here is the beginning faze of it... well pretty much just the first shots, Angie is Hermione but obviously you can see it is a different style than the normal Harry Potter. My friend Ryan is going to be Harry and my friend Nils is going to be Ron. I am shooting them tomorrow cause I couldn't get all three of them at the same time. The process I will be using is kind of layering and masking and stuff. I want to also shoot a forest seen so it can rap around to the back of the book and have the Forbidden forest with Voldemort in it or something. WOO! I HOPE it turns out awesome!

So you know how sometimes in magazines you will see those pictures of the celebrities showing "what they are all about"? Well that is kind of the vibe that we were trying to go for here. So if Angie were a celebrity this is KIND OF what hers would looks like. She is hoping to "pick up" the guitar these days by the way she doesn't actually know how to play. She is hoping to pick it up like you pick up Spanish and stuff you know. She figures if she hangs out with enough people that play the guitar she will learn how to play. The assignment for these photos was beauty and posterization. The plain photo is just retouching, the one of her with the guitar is posterization, and the other two are a combination of the two. These ones look a lot better then the ones that I had for the critique too so I hope I get a better grade then I would have if I had turned them in then. I hope this all made sense.

Woohoo I was up until 5:00 AM doing all of these photos Monday night and I do have to fix a lot of them but at least I had them ready for the critique! Angela, my now brunette friend, was my beautiful model for this photo shoot (and all of my other ones too) and I am SO grateful for her! I think we had a lot of fun doing these and they turned out pretty good. The idea maybe a little bit better then the execution, but that can be fixed. My next photo shoot has got to be something CRAZY good!

ANGLEA... OH I JUST LOVE HER!

So.... I have had some real artistic inspiration this week! I randomly started a colored pencil drawing of someone, it will be a surprise for someone, and it is going quite well. I have had inspiration for my Harry Potter cover for Computers and Art class. Also I have had some great inspiration for my photo shoots this week and hope the photos turn out ok even though I still have a long way to go on them! Anywhoha here is one of the smart objects part of the assignment I did for photo and I think it looks pretty good. Angie is just the BEST model in the ENTIRE WORLD. She would eat Tyra Banks for BREAKY!