Ok, so I'm kind of prejudice when it comes to art. I don't like digital art, to me, it just seems like it doesn't take true talent to make, same with abstract. Well, I took some pictures and experimented with some digital effects and stuff. It's not as easy as I thought! While I still prefer traditional art, digital art isn't so much a taboo thing anymore.
Here are a few pictures I touched up/altered on the computer. (I took the pictures first then messed around with them.)
This one is called
Violets are Blue. It was actually very complicated to make this picture. I wanted the floweres to be a really strong blue, but then they took away from the rest of it. To fix that, I cut the leaves and the grassy part in the corners and put them on a new layer so that I could sharpen their color without changing anything else. Then I had to soften the reds a little in the top corner. Part of the rocks ended up on a different layer so that I could move the leaves around. I finally got it all together, just the right hues and everything. Va-la!
This one is
Star of the Show. Really all I did to this picture was tone down the orange (the light when I took the picture made it look very very orange) and take out my palm from the background. Oh yeah, I also cropped it and took out the other half of the apple so it was more balanced.
Fountain of Stars. I just adjusted the contrast so that the trees were really dark and the water was brighter. I toyed with the idea of somehow putting shooting stars coming out of the water like droplets of water, but I figured it looked good like this (and it was too complicated to figure out XD.)
Life is a Balancing Act. This one is the most drastically changed and digitalized. I took a picture of my foot on a cement ball that we have in our drive way. Then, I edited out the ball and put the Earth in its place. I didn't intend for the background to end up like that, but I was messing around with renderings and stumbled upon this one that I thought looked cool. After it rendered though, I had to move it around and change the radius so that it was behind the Earth and looked like it was...well how it is.
This picture I call The Long Way We've Traveled It represents the journey of my life so far and how I've come to be where I am in life. It's the long journey of life that we all deal with and we all have to overcome to find our own glimmer of happiness. (Taken 11 Jan 2009 in Lignano, Italy)
My Heart Belongs to the Sand It looks like a simple picture, but I went through the whole thing and erased all the sea shells and footprints that were stomping all over the place. The concept I had in mind when I took this was simple: people don't always give you the kind of peaceful, relaxed feelings you get from being on a quite beach...or in the mountains, or anywhere in nature where humanity hasn't totally over run the place. (Taken 11 Jan 2009 in Lignano, Italy)
Behold, the Battlefield Everytime I go to the beach, I always feel bad when I step on the shells that have washed up on the sand. I wanted to convey that feeling through this picture through the pieces of shells and the whole ones. The sienna hue gives it that forlorn kind of feel, which is really cool. (Taken 11 Jan 2009 in Lignano, Italy)
Are You There? It's Me I just wanted to take a really cool close up of sea shells. XD The picture turned out better than I thought, so Va-la! it is beautiful work of art. (Taken 11 Jan 2009 in Lignano, Italy)
