The Noble and the Wretched

The two words i used are the Noble and the Wretched. for the these two pieces i was trying to show how the two view each other. So for the noble picture i have the "wretched" in the center and he is bieng looked at with eyes that want to save him.

there are eyes in the bottom layer transparent, it is actually one eye duplicated and flipped...I have the "wretched" in the middle with a halo over his head and standing on a pile of skulls. On each side i have two angels looking up. I put light behind the center figure and also from his feet and head. I have two pictures with two different types of color and lighting. one darker and one lighter.

For the second piece i did the view of the noble from the eyes of the Wretched. In this one the noble is zesus and the Wretched view him with hate and want to kill him. in the background is a blacked out tree behind that is a sky that is greyed out i put the light source behind the tree and gave it a glow effect. I took a large grim reaper and removed his reaper...i wanted them to look like they were in battle and that there was some type of deflected magic...

Fortune cookies

This was our Second Project and we had to do it based off  of a random Fortune cookie. I recieved the Fortune "Your Words inspire Others". Those words took me straight to coaching. Coaching has changed my life and to be honest if it wasnt for me walking out on the football field i wouldnt be in the class room today.

In the Picture is some players in different posses...I made them shadows and added about 5 players. I have also added our Football logo and mascot a Dragon. The Dragon is a picture from a sculpture i have at home and the pictures are from this season. the two people in the picture are my son nathan and myself. I have all of the pictures sitting on a space background that i resized to make the brightest part to look like fire from the dragons mouth.

My first Project

Here is my first picture i will add comments later..
Our first project was getting us use to using layers and how to blend images together. I prefer darker type art myself so I went with 4 layers total on this picture. The first layer is of some sinister looking Trees with a gate and a dark feel to it. I then added a tortured Soul in the middle of the gate. This is were I made some mistakes because I believe I had the picture blended nice but then I added the big skull in the center and it made the tortured soul very hard to see. My mistake came in when I flattened the soul into the background too soon. So in order to make the center stand out like I wanted I lost more than I wanted with the tortured figure in the skulls mouth. I added two other skulls into each corner. I cut these out from a skull I have at home and blended them into the back ground.

The Background is from old wallpaper I have had for years. The tortured soul and skulls came from items I took pictures of with my camera.

My First night...

This is my first night in the class and we are setting up our blog pages. This is just a test post to get things started....more to follow.