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.