Project Title: Most Valuable Player
Idea Generation:
Cleats
Ball
Players
Uniform
Legs
Socks
A full body player
Artists I Took Inspiration From: For this project I had an particular piece of art in mind that I wanted to draw inspiration from, but I could not remember the name of the piece or the artist, which left me stuck to finding other sources of inspiration. The original piece I was interested in was a photo of a hand holding an apple, with color from the apple bleeding out into the hand and the rest of the picture being desaturated. To replace it, I then looked at M.C Escher’s ‘Self-Reflecting in A Sphere’ to decide whether or not I wanted to draw or photograph my project. The intricate detail of M.C Escher’s piece was a bit of a turn-off for me because I had spent a lot of time and effort working on our original value piece, but had become bored and frustrated with it. Then, I found a few pieces by Kem5, a graffiti artist, that showed desaturated colors moving to fully saturated colors and decided to use that as the basis for my work.
My Project: At first, I practice making a desaturation gradient on Photoshop with a stock photo of a Nike Cleat because I wanted to do the same to a larger picture of all of my teammates cleats, fading them in from grayscale to full color. The process went like this:
This work excellently on the stock cleat, but not so well on the aerial picture of my team’s cleats. The gradient did not show up well and the overall piece was not what I wanted. So, I made a new piece, my final piece, of me in my blazer and tie holding a soccer ball that was gradiating color into my fingers, hopefully representing the ball itself giving life to my hands.
I really do feel as if I learned something from this project, both because I had to problem-solve to get a finished piece and as because I had to teach myself the entire method of making the gradient.
Idea Generation:
Cleats
Ball
Players
Uniform
Legs
Socks
A full body player
Artists I Took Inspiration From: For this project I had an particular piece of art in mind that I wanted to draw inspiration from, but I could not remember the name of the piece or the artist, which left me stuck to finding other sources of inspiration. The original piece I was interested in was a photo of a hand holding an apple, with color from the apple bleeding out into the hand and the rest of the picture being desaturated. To replace it, I then looked at M.C Escher’s ‘Self-Reflecting in A Sphere’ to decide whether or not I wanted to draw or photograph my project. The intricate detail of M.C Escher’s piece was a bit of a turn-off for me because I had spent a lot of time and effort working on our original value piece, but had become bored and frustrated with it. Then, I found a few pieces by Kem5, a graffiti artist, that showed desaturated colors moving to fully saturated colors and decided to use that as the basis for my work.
My Project: At first, I practice making a desaturation gradient on Photoshop with a stock photo of a Nike Cleat because I wanted to do the same to a larger picture of all of my teammates cleats, fading them in from grayscale to full color. The process went like this:
- Duplicate photograph
- Hide original
- Add a black and white mask layer to the duplicated photo
- Add a black and white adjustment layer over that
- Hit ‘G’ and drag the gradient tool across the section you want to fade
- Switch back to the mask layer and color in black with a large, feathered brush
- Gradiate how you see fit
This work excellently on the stock cleat, but not so well on the aerial picture of my team’s cleats. The gradient did not show up well and the overall piece was not what I wanted. So, I made a new piece, my final piece, of me in my blazer and tie holding a soccer ball that was gradiating color into my fingers, hopefully representing the ball itself giving life to my hands.
I really do feel as if I learned something from this project, both because I had to problem-solve to get a finished piece and as because I had to teach myself the entire method of making the gradient.
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