Final Artwork

Artwork Title: Choking Earth


Visual Treatment

Art Movement: A combination of Expressionism & Surrealism
Reference Artist: Max Ernst
Chosen Theme: Global Warming
Concept & Idiation: My artwork portrays the struggles of mother nature in this modern time. The extent to which mother nature is suffering from global warming is indescribable. Global warming has led to the increasing lack of oxygen on earth. It is so badly affected that there is a need for the whole earth to be covered by an oxygen mask. The face feature on the oxygen mask portrays how even mother nature is confused of its current state. It is no doubt that while global warming rates are increasing each day, the sight of humans walking around with oxygen masks are rare. This artwork goes to the extreme and puts the whole earth behind an oxygen mask speaking the urgent need for action and the seriousness of the global warming phenomena.


Artwork by: Shereen Raj Boniface
Student ID: B1002615

My Childhood Comics

Some hilarious Doraemon jokes:

Doraemon; Imagine in a closed room, how can you escape if it caught fire?
Nobita: Simple, stop imagining


Sunyo got an invitation to a party. It said 'Yellow Hat Only'
When Sunyo went to the party he was shocked to see others wearing pants and shirts too.


Gian: Why did Nobita's mum fall out of the window?
Sunyo: She was ironing the curtain


Doraemon never fails to entertain and put a smile on my face :)

A picture speaks a thousand words

A woman holds her malnourished child at a therapeutic feeding center at al-Sabyeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen, May 28, 2012. REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi


This picture, in my opinion, reflects the suffering and poverty of people in certain parts of the world. While we enjoy three to four meals a day in Malaysia, some people struggle to get clean water.


Millions of children have died due to malnutrition.

Metaphor of Coffee :)

Converting An Image Into A Pencil Sketch In Photoshop

Steps Involved:

1. Open an image in Photoshop.

2. Go to: Image > Adjustments > Desaturate.

3. Duplicate the image layer. You will now be working on the duplicate layer.

4. Go to: Image > Adjustments > Invert

5. Change its Blend Mode from Normal to Color Dodge.

6. Go to: Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur.

7. Set the Foreground and Background colors as 25% gray and white respectively.

8. Select the Brush Tool and open Basic Brushes.
9. Select Soft Mechanical Brush.
10. Apply the brush on your image, however you like.

Original picture:

After Photoshop:

Adding eye and mouth features to an object using Photoshop

We put the photo montage technique into practice when working on this exercise. Photo montage is the combination of a few different pictures.

Surreal Representation of the Mind Art Work

We were required to create a surreal representation of the Mind Art Work using Photoshop during one of our tutorials. This is what I managed to complete in class. 

This is the completed version!!

Painting my sketch using Photoshop

My final sketch

I used the magic wand tool to select the parts of the artwork that I'd like to paint

I used the brush tool to paint my artwork.

 

 

This is how my artwork looked like after I painted it

Sketch of the day

Painting using Photoshop

Before I begin my next post let me just say that like Photoshop, a Blog is also very new to me. Believe it or not, this is my very first blog. So, it feels like this course is bringing me through a whole new journey full of discoveries! Hopefully one that is worth the time, energy and hard work that I am investing *coughAfordesigncough* haha!

After learning the basics of Photoshop, we learnt how to paint sketches. We were each required to pick a sketch of our choice online and copy>paste it onto our background.

When painting
1. Select the Brush Tool
2. Adjust the brush size
3. Pick the colour on the right pane
4. Start painting

* To ease the painting process, you could enlarge the picture as big as you want until the little boxes on the sketch are actually visible.

This is the painting my friend and I were working on for more than one hour of the class time. It looks easy, but it is actually a pretty tedious process, especially when it come to painting the little edges.

Photoshop 101 :)

17th May 2012

I have Photoshop installed on my laptop so I am not all that outdated, but sadly my Photoshop knowledge stops right there. bleh. It's not like I have never tried to explore Photoshop. I did. Numerous times, but I always ended up clicking every icon available on Photoshop and after 5 minutes of doing that I'd still end up with a blank grey screen :/

Then came the legendary Mr. Khairulazhar on the 17th May 2012, and he said "students, like every piece of worthy artwork, Photoshop too begins with a blank canvas!" dayumm! I ran out of the classroom in shame upon hearing that! I will never ever be able to forgive myself for not knowing the simple philosophy behind an artwork! Okay, kidding! haha! Trust me for DRAMA ;)

So here are a few steps that we learnt during our "Intro to Photoshop" Tutorial lesson


Step 1


*Click File > New

Step 2
A new window pops up allowing you to customize your canvas. A 16 inches x 20 inches, 300 pixel, white canvas was chosen. The colour was set to CMYK instead of the default RGB because unlike RGB, CMYK allows you to print your artwork once it is completed.

Step 3


Once you click okay, the new white background/canvas appears. The background cannot be edited. A new layer must be added to start work.

To create new layer, click Layer>New>Layer