HERE'S MY PROGRESS TODAY!

this is the water one that i'm working on now. i don't know what i'm doing with all these different images, but hopefully i'll figure it out!

ok now i'm on a new track. i'm going to base my project around water, earth, and air. for the water project i'll use images of fish, for air i'll use images of birds, and for earth.. well i dont know yet. there is an abundance of squirrels on this campus...

I'm stuck now. I have all my pictures with me but I can't think of a theme for the third project. I have so far a water and plant theme, and some awesome pictures to work with. I think I'll just get started and see if anything comes to me!

so our next and final project is a series of three. i have NO ideas, so i'm going to brainstorm. i want to do something that really relates to me, kind of like the self portrait but not a portrait. i'll figure something out...

Towers.

Well, I finally finished my towers project. It was actually pretty fun. I learned a lot about OC history OOOOHH YEAH! and who knows... maybe i'll win some $$$!

THE STAR!

HERE IS THE STAR CARD. I LOVE IT. BECAUSE I'M IN IT. AND ITS AWESOME! OK, I'M WRITING IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE I'M EXCITED. THIS CARD INCLUDES THE WATER AND STAR ELEMENTS. I MADE A SHIT TON OF LAYERS AND THATS WHY THIS LOOKS SO SWEET. THE WATER IS TRANSLUCENT AND IS MADE WITH THE GRADIENT TOOL. YEAH!

adding stars and water

ok so this is the card so far. i've been adding layers onto the face in a swirly flowy way. the stars are loose around the head to look like hair. they will eventually fade into the background (not sure what that will be yet) and i'm beginning to put water in the corner. we'll see where it goes!

star

well it is now 12:00 and i need to go to lunch. I've taken a picture of me and messed it up in photoshop. i gave it the cut out filter and opened it in illustrator, and now i'm in the process of making layers upon layers upone LAYERS. sickening.

The Star

I've decided to start with the tarot card "The Star". I eventually want to do the sun and the moon, and the lovers, also known as love. This card represents a bright future, joy, harmony, positiveness, etc. There is usually a woman depicted pouring water while looking hopefully to the stars. I'm going to use myself for this project. here are some sketches..

card 1

So here's the first OC card I finished. The Towers one is a work in progress. This card includes students from the early 1900's in the composites in Towers (including Helen Keller! top right), and the background is a photo of an old clock and stained glass window in the Philomathean Room.

CARDS

So our next project is "fictitious playing cards". we're starting out with making one card, but i want to make a few just to have a theme going. instead of doing the traditional french version that we use today (hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades) i'm going to do tarot cards. they're interesting and it will give me room to interpret whatever i want for the images. i think i'll stick with the original suits (cups, wands, pentacles, coins) and instead of jack queen king it will be page, knight, queen, king. There are a lot of sweet tarot cards and ive always loved the images illustrated by pamela coleman smith, the Rider-waite-smith deck. well, i'm gonna go get started.