Project 3

Project three was probably one of my favorites. I chose a line art of a horse and brought it to life! I chose the coloring of a dappled buckskin horse because it is my absolute favorite and I think it pushed me to make it perfect. I did mostly dodging and burning and blurring to get the coloring just right. I spent many extra hours making it perfect and I will one day have a horse that looks like this one!

Project 2

Project 2 was the junk drawer project and I really enjoyed working in photoshop with this. These are the kinds of things I wanted to learn and even had a little time for fun and created some extra projects. The tools I used the most were distorting and changing the perspective on the layers and creating new layers. I chose to put my objects washed up on a beach rather than putting them in a drawer, just to have something different. I added 5 or so objects and tried to make them look like they had been there a while and water damaged and what not. It took some time but I am happy with my work. The hardest part was fixing the shadow on the horse shoe, that took the longest time to make look somewhat real.

Lesson 6

Although lesson 6 was not very hard, it took me a long time to get done. I think it was all mental block that made it take so long though. Working on the butterfly was a little confusing at first and then there was one part that I could not do because it did not give me the option to do it. It was the part where you fill in the butterfly wings with a glass fill or something and it had only a 2 options instead of the 5 or 6 that were in the book. The next part, fixing the hair and teeth and fixing the over exposure with the burn and dodge tool was very easy and I liked doing those things. The last part was really fun, fixing the old mans face. It was very intricate work that took me some time to figure out but it worked out very well!