Tattoo

The strongest aspect of my work would have to be my shell drawing. I love to draw, so when I give myself a challenge like this, I have to go all out and make sure that it is done to my specifications. An aspect of my work that could be improved on would be fixing the shell on Photo Shop. Once the shell was on my project, it was very challenging to get it to look like a tattoo. I had to fix the coloring of the shell by having it fade into the photo, then warp it to the photo where I wanted it, then brighten or darken the shell where it was needed.

The easiest part of this activity for me was changing the background image of my friends Bubbles, Pikachu and I (these are their summer camp names). All I had to do was change how much black and white were present throughout the image, so it wouldn't look very bright. The most difficult part of this activity would have been the burning and dodging of the shell. I had to dodge the shell where it was bright on the background image, and I had to burn the image where it was darker in the background. Once I determined where the dodge and burns should go, I had to determine how much of each I would have to use, and figure out what looked most similar to the background image.  

I demonstrated the warp tool in my shell image by warping the shell to the part of my body which it is on. I demonstrated the dodge and burn tools by burning the top of the shell to match the darkness of my skin, and dodging the bottom of the shell to match the brightness of my skin. Once I applied the warp tool, dodge tool, and burn tool, I then blurred the image of the shell to the part of my body where the image is. If I could do this art activity again I would change the image for the tattoo. A different image I would have chosen would have been a cute little cuttle fish.