Through this piece, I was able to express my inner desire. I tried to rebel if at least a little, against my beliefs. From the aspects of my cultural point of view, I was able to relate to artists that exhibit religion and solitude. I self-made this piece using Photoshop and it does not come directly from another author's art piece.
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Sketches & Ideas for first theme
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My very first idea was love. I am not allowed to have love in my culture, and if it was possible, I'd have to keep it very strict and that is not even allowed at my age, my teenage years. I wanted to depict rebelliousness towards my religion.
Although I dislike going against my parents and the concept of religion, my feelings and growing attitude is starting to question whether I want and am willing to be very conservative towards this religion I was made to follow ever since I was brought to this world. I follow this religion of mine, however, it is not a very strict decision. I believe in it, but there are things I dislike about it. I dislike degrading my religion since I believe it's very understandable and to the point, however, I possess too much of a romantic attitude to be acknowledged. |
My idea was to show myself hiding behind a male figure and have a mask on to cover my face, to cover the wrongdoings and to not be recognizable. I would have my arms wrapped around their head and back, to get a feel of protectiveness as if nothing can get to us, no religion, culture, hatred, judgments, jealousy, and all the negative aspect of human beings. Also, I'd wear a white dress that wraps around my partner to cover him with my foreign thoughts. It would cover him with rebellious nature and my dark side. I'd show that my partner accepts all my decisions, thoughts, feelings, emotions, actions, love and affection whether it's the bad or the good.
Also, seeing other students who have completed the project and graduated spur me on and encouraged me to show that I too can create something that would be left behind and admired by following young artists.
Not really knowing what I wanted to create, I took random pictures and played around with the Photoshop CS6. That experience allowed to me have enough skills to be able to complete my final piece. Using Photoshop was extremely easy for me, I had no difficulty with using the tools and knowing how to size the image or play around with the colors. Overall, it was a pretty awesome experience to get to know the awesome prowess of manipulation of pictures. What worried me was finding an inspiration because I thought that what I was creating was something of my own, I didn't know if I could find a theme to fit me. Miraculously I found a lot, there really wasn't a need to worry what so ever.
This project scared me in a way, actually every project scares me because I really dislike due dates and when that comes nearer and nearer, it puts me at the edge. I am very Proud of what I have created. I was able to incorporate principles of design and elements of art into my piece such as the contrast of color, the value of color, the balance of the environment, the emphasis on certain parts of the collage, and the texture the collage gives off.
There are certain parts of the piece which I dislike, however, next time I use Photoshop, I will try to go beyond what I have created and make something that strikes a person on first glance, something that has such a deep theme that it puts one to admiration.
Not really knowing what I wanted to create, I took random pictures and played around with the Photoshop CS6. That experience allowed to me have enough skills to be able to complete my final piece. Using Photoshop was extremely easy for me, I had no difficulty with using the tools and knowing how to size the image or play around with the colors. Overall, it was a pretty awesome experience to get to know the awesome prowess of manipulation of pictures. What worried me was finding an inspiration because I thought that what I was creating was something of my own, I didn't know if I could find a theme to fit me. Miraculously I found a lot, there really wasn't a need to worry what so ever.
This project scared me in a way, actually every project scares me because I really dislike due dates and when that comes nearer and nearer, it puts me at the edge. I am very Proud of what I have created. I was able to incorporate principles of design and elements of art into my piece such as the contrast of color, the value of color, the balance of the environment, the emphasis on certain parts of the collage, and the texture the collage gives off.
There are certain parts of the piece which I dislike, however, next time I use Photoshop, I will try to go beyond what I have created and make something that strikes a person on first glance, something that has such a deep theme that it puts one to admiration.