Artwork

For the next assignment we were suppose to create a picture that showed something impossible happening in reality (hence the name impossible reality). It took about a day for me to fully think of an idea for this assignment and then begin creating it to match my imagination. My idea was creating a picture where something is jumping out of the TV or breaking out of the TV. I came up with this idea while surfing Google images and finding an image where a hand was coming out of the computer and handing money to the owner of the computer.

First thing I did was find the images needed to create the assignment (using Google of course). I found a face breaking through a surface:

I worked on the chest area and the little necklace he was wearing next. These didn't take too long to fix. The necklace gave me a small bit of trouble because it would repeat itself just above where it orignially was and would look like a random chain coming out of his skin. So I fixed the shain with small stamp tools and continued to fix the white patches and shadow on his chest.

My next target was the "Esso" tag on the right side of his shirt. This part took little to no time. First I tried to fix the area of his shirt around the Esso label using medium/ small stamp tools. This took some time because again, the shirt has a lined pattern through it so if I didn't get the right pixels in the right place, the lines would go crooked and the pattern would look pixely or strange. I started with the second "S" on the Esso sign and pretty much took pixels from the first one to make the second one look complete. Next I patched up some of the little patches inside the label and slowly began to replace the stained portion of the label with the grayish colour of the label.
Now the hardest area of the whole picture came forward and I had to face it....the huge stain on the "gas Guy's" shirt in the bottom right of the photo. The shirt was a nightmare. One you didn't want to face but had to. So I selected small stamp tools and got to work. I started with the little white patchs on his collar working my way to the stain. I started by slowly fixing the shirt on the outer region of the shirt then I started to slowly move in on the stain from the top. I fixed the shoulder using small stamp tools then moved to the stain again until I came to the pocket of the shirt. Then I worked on the left arm of his shirt (yes it's his left arm, turn to face in the same position and you will know that its his left arm, even if it is on the right...). This was the hardest area next to the stain (since it had the stain, rips, patches and it was cutoff from the side).

Yes, it came out pixely. Why? Because there wasn't a good place to sample the pattern of the shirt to fit the direction of the ripped/patched/ stained portions of the arm, so I had to try and create it from scratch. I took some pixels from the shirt (which had the pattern going in the right direction) and tried to fix the arm. It became pixely when I used the same pixels too much. The top part of the arm, near the shoulder had lines moving in a different direction than the bottom part of the arm and it took forever to link up the two. I gave up trying to fix it after the third attempt (which made it look worst, so I didn't save it and started from before I edited it).

Next I tried to fix the folds on the shoulder and near the chest. The stain kind of fused with the shadow and I tried to use it to seperate the shoulder, from the arm (worked alittle but you can see what was the stain and what was shadow).

Lastly I fixed the rest of the rips/ patches in his shirt and moved to the pocket. Extremly hard...The pocket was covered in the stain and was challenging to uncover. First I had to remove the stain. This took about a week (using medium/ small stamp tools and slowly using pixels from the shirt to fix the pocket), next I made sure the pocket was the right shade of gray and that it matched the picture (took forever...). Finally I fixed the top of the pocket (to make sure the shading/ top part was there) then worked on the bottom part. The bottom part took another day to fix since it had stains under there too. I cleared those away using pixels from other parts of his shirt, then used the stain to form a small shadow under the pocket (to seperate the pocket from the shirt).

I looked it over one last time, then posted it for your viewing pleasure...

Hey again, just finished my second photo called "4 people".

This one took the shortest time to complete of the three (doesn't mean it was the easiest).  I started off with the background first, fixing the huge rip at the top of the photo and editing the clouds using stamp tool. I took pixels from other clouds using a medium sized brush, then slowly went over the rip. I had to shift some clouds and re-arrange them to make it look natural inside the picture. Next I focused on the little creases and white patches that ran on the clouds, the hills behind the people, and the little white house.

Next I focused on the lake??? (I don't know if it's a lake but I guess it is since there are hills on the other side and the people are standing on the grass). This took me a few minutes. I used a small stamp tool and took pixels from fuller parts of the lake to clean up any creases or white patches.

Once I finished the lake I focused on fixing the 4 people. This part gave me trouble since 3 of the 4 people had their arms cut off but cuts and creases in the photo. It took me a while to make sure that their arms were fixed. I especially had a bit of difficulty with the boy standing up on the far left. His elbow was completely cut off and it took me 3-4 days just to draw the outline of the arm and then another 2 days to fill it in and make sure the elbow was correct. At times I found the arms looked odd, almost like the person had some type of skin disease....but I eventually fixed it and moved on to the faded/ white/ gray/ black spots and patches in their shirts and pants.

Finally I finished the black shadow at the bottom of the 4 people's pants, shoes, arms, ect. then moved to the grass. The grass gave me some difficulty since it had the most creases and damage on the whole photo so I used a medium sized tool and took pixels from a lighter shade of gray, which caused the grass to came out in one shade of gray (came off pixely) but I like the end result. On to number 3...

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