Saturday 23 June 2012

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

Tuesday 19 June 2012

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 :)



Sunday 17 June 2012

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.

Tuesday 12 June 2012

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:

Wednesday 6 June 2012

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.

Tuesday 5 June 2012

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!!