revised self portrait

self portrait

Well this is my digital self portrait. I started off by trying to create something a little different then my normal photoshop work since I kind of accidentally did this project in our four photos assignment. Then I got this idea of making me into some kind of demon like thing so I went from there. Then I got the idea of making me have a bunch of ghostly arms. So then I proceeded to create a background vortex in photoshop. I started off by just spray painting it black and dark blue followed by experimenting with all sorts of filters and then warped it all together. Then I decided to get my wife to help me out, since it was a self portrait and she being a very important part of me, by using her skill of make up to make me look ghostly, spooky, and bloody. After she took the picture of me I placed the picture of me on my background and then pasted a couple copies of my arm on there as well and played with the transparency of them all. I also added a few filters as well especially the motion blur one. Then I also found some cool skulls that would go well with the dark and spooky theme and a took the one and made it large and off to the side and took the bundle of skulls and repeated it across the bottom to create a base. Then I also messed with the opacity on them to go along with the ghostly transparency theme.

selfportrait tablet

tablet drawing

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photoship black and white

Well I boosted the contrast a good bit and I increased the shadows and the brightness of the highlights. Then I used the multiply layer over it to add some color. The regular contrast on her face reminded me of the joker so i added some of the red around the mouth and put a little green to highlight the hair. Then wrote the famous words in spray paint on the wall then smudged them some.

photoshop work

Well this is my color photoshop picture. I just adjusted the levels and contrast in it until I got these colors. Then I burned the colors out and mixed them out creating a crazy blur like around it.

superhero

People never stay long, just pass through town. That's because Harmon, West Virgina has an Exxon station attached to a general store and a few clapboard houses back off the road. That's all. Estil Nathan Bedford Forrest Compton traded the ginseng he found in the mountains for food, tobacco, and shotgun shells, the only things a man really needs.

The local people talk about a secret government installation that they purport to be the destination of the unmarked, green truck that passes through every Wednesday. Estil never believed any of it, until the Wednesday that the truck stopped, steam spewing from under the hood. While the driver busied himself reattaching a loose radiator hose, Estil climbed into the back of the truck and hid beneath several layers of tarps. Back on the road, the driver called ahead ot the first security checkpoint. Estil was surprised when he made it through the first two checkpoints undetected. At the third checkpoint, Dr. Lassiter and a half dozen armed soldiers waited for him. The bright glare of the sun as the tarps were lifted was all Estil saw until he woke up, strapped to a table and surrounded by people in masks and crisp white lab coats. That was the beginning of the only adventure Estil ever had.

Estil soon realized he was the subject of biological experiments. After countless weeks of probes, needles, serums, and torturous surgeries Estil was desperate for escape. Then one day the guards slipped unlocking his enormous iron cuffs before his right arm was fully deactivated allowing Estil to quickly shoot out his enormous claw into the guard. Estil quickly lashed off the ropes binding his wings and flew off into the dark, cold mountains. On his way out, he silently promised the other victims that he would be back for them.

We created Estil because we wanted a boring character and boring place so we picked a tiny town in West Virginia. Going along with that theme of course our character had to be a hillbilly. Then we decided he was going to be an experiment for a secret government facility that breaks loose and destroys the governmental facilities. We picked a generic human form and pasted on predator arms, wings, space helmet, overalls, and boots. Then we smoothed things together and blended them, and that was about it.