Title: Damn We Look Good

Dimensions: 1920px x 1080px
Medium: Photoshop

Description: I created a photoshop image to picture the long-awaited dream of Virtual Reality. A tribute to gamers all over the world. I met up with a couple of my friends and interviewed them about their most favorite video games or T.V show. I could have just picked a random picture off the internet and photoshop that, but I believed if I took my own photos I would foster creativity. After we had established what their favorite video games were, I picked them up and went to two different locations in Morgan Hill to do a photoshoot. The following images are part of this project: Damn We look Good,The Heart of Jaysen's Kingdom, The Hero Trent and Darb's dream.


Title: The Heart of Jaysen's Kingdom

Dimensions: 720px x 480px
Medium: Photoshop

Description: My second piece is of Jaysen. Jaysen said he enjoyed playing a Blizzard game titled Overwatch. His favorite game is Kingdom Hearts and his favorite show at the time is My Hero Academia as well. I asked him which one he will enjoy seeing the most, he responded with Kingdom Hearts. It was a lot of fun taking his pictures, because the character he was playing as was Sora (the main character of Kingdom Hearts) and he had Sora’s weapon, the key blade. I wanted to make it seem as if Jaysen just entered this new world. The original photo had clear skies and a bright background with a joyful tone, I changed it to a dark tone by changing the contrast and lowering the brightness. I add dark clouds and enemies from the game, Kingdom Hearts, falling out of the clouds. I used the eraser tool and lowered opacity to blend the clouds to the original photo. Sora's companies (Donald Duck and Goofy) were added, because I thought the photo was too much of a plane piece.


Title: The Hero Trent

Dimensions: 720px x 480px
Medium: Photoshop

Description: Trent said he enjoyed playing a Nintendo game titled Super Smash Bros. His favorite game is Earthbound 3 and his favorite show at the time is My Hero Academia. I asked him which one he will enjoy seeing the most, he responded with My Hero Academia. We tried several poses for the picture; we agreed with the superhero landing pose. Because I knew the T.V. show very well I already had an idea on how I wanted the picture to look like. I began by putting his photo in adobe photoshop. I wanted the photo to have a story, so I made it seem as if he jumped out of the sky. Because the character we are trying to imitate is a strength base hero, I made his landing strong and reckless. I made it seem as if the ground was being destroyed by his landing by having rocks shoot up from the ground.


Title: Darb's dream

Dimensions: 300px x 296px
Medium: Photoshop

Description: The use of colors and flowers to represent powerful feelings and emotions is an effective rhetorical tool. Pigments create an overwhelming sensation, attracting people, like light attracts moths. To allow the audience to experience the green and red more efficiently, I created a dark background. The negative space takes over the composition, while the linear positive space brings form into existence. The green symbolises youth, growth, and safety. Red symbolises lust, passion and desire. Here the young woman in the composition is in a virtual rhetorical situation. The roses are positioned in different directions of the woman. One rose is behind and one is in front of her. The height level of the roses were also put into considerations. The roses represent her past relationships, as well as her future relationships. In the attempt to move past her latest relationship she struggles to see a bright future for her next one.






Title: Untitled #!

Medium: Photoshop

Dimensions: 1548px x 1024px

A 26-year-old man from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is an American rapper, singer, and record producer. His Name is Malcolm James McCormick or better known as Mac Miller. Mac Miller self-taught himself piano, guitar, drums, and bass. When he was in high school he focused less on his school work and more on his rapping career. He made a couple of random mix tapes, but his career didn’t take off till his album Blue Slide Park dropped, on November 8, 2011. A couple years later he had his own T.V. show that aired on M.T.V. Yes his melodies in his music are very nice, but what really made Mac Miller standout from the other rappers is his growth in his albums. Mac Miller had an interview about his life and was asked “why the major tone change in between albums." Mac miller explained that he became a rapper in a very young age, as he matured and changed as an adult so did his albums. First album was about being young and fun, second was about finding out what life is about and what he wants to accomplish, then his third album main focus was clearing himself from toxic drugs and finally his latest album was about what he really wanted in life: love. This doesn’t only express Mac miller, but also helps his fans and listeners. His fan base are mostly teenagers and young adults that are going through the same life changes as Mac miller did. His music touched his fans. I don’t want to make music, but I do want my artwork to have the same effect as Mac Miller had with his music. The following images are part of this project: Untitled #!, and Untitled #@.
In honor memory.


Title: Untitled #@

Medium: Photoshop

Dimensions: 983px x 1335px