week seven

Today's lesson was more on the corel painter X program, as i stated last week i really dont have any intention to use this program, but it is also very interesting to learn about the different techniques and styles that this program offers you.

After having a play with the Corel program and making a moving "cartoonish" image, i went back to my finals. Today i was working on three different photos i had taken of just a close up fave with three different masks on, my message behind this was no matter how many times you change yourself you are never going to be truly happy until you are just being yourself.
I took these images just in front of a white wall so what i really want to do it make the backgrounds black and have a spotlight coming from which ever corner or side that the girl is looking at. I have tried playing with this idea today on Photo shop but i still havn't achieved it to the extent that i would like, this is something that i have to work on to perfect it before it can be a final, i feel that it will just look tacky if i don't achieve what i'm visioning in my head.

Hopefully i can work on this more at home and be able to achieve the look that im going for.

week six

This weeks lesson i learn't something totally new to me. we worked with corel painter, and used a pad/tablet for all our drawing and mouse work. this was very hard to get used to. i really like how the program gives u so many different opportunities and allows you to work how you would originally like to without having to find different ways to do something like on photo shop, this program you can draw freely with your own hand. i dont really think i will do a final using this program as it will be difficult to work on as i dont have the program at home or the pad and pen. so essentially i would shave to finish the final today and i really dont believe that it is possible for me to do that. it takes me a long time to perfect something to considering that this lesson i am just learning about how to use the program, and next week i would be starting or continuing on with a piece, i just don't see myself being able to finish the piece.

after having a play with this program i have decided to go back to photo shop and continue with my finals. over the week i have taken photos of a friend in the types of poses that i have detailed previously. unfortunately i wasn't able to get the type of dress that i was visioning, but i was able to get a dress of a deep moody purple colour which i feel expresses the pieces well.

next week i hope to just continue on with my finals and strt with a new one, i want to focus on just the face with the mask on.