Yes, it's all in my head....

Good afternoon!

I'm supposed to be doing homework right now but I keep getting distracted and start doing fun things with Photoshop and After Effects instead of the boring homework that has been assigned. I've just discovered how to make GIFs with AE and so now I'm going GIF crazy on my tumblr. Yay for procrastination!

I'm loving the confidence I've gained in Photoshop recently; we're not doing a lot of it in our classes but I have been using it a lot and so I'm doing new things that I haven't been able to do before. One thing I did was make a painting out of photographs for a story.

Keira and I have been doing a writing exercise together - we've each created a character and written letters back in forth as those characters, creating back stories and jobs and interests and friends for them. It's quite interesting what we're coming up with. I love it.

My character, Sophie, is a young artist living in New York. She's been corresponding with Jasper Clancy, a uni student living in Sydney who does acting in his spare time. Jasper found a collection of artworks that belonged to Sophie's grandmother that had been left behind in Sydney airport, and they've been writing back and forth to each other ever since.

Sophie told Jasper that she was going to paint her brother Alan, a cellist. In one of Jasper's recent letters he asked Sophie if he could see her artwork, and so I thought, why not?

I'd had an idea in my head since creating Sophie what her art would be like, and at first I started googling paintings of cellist to see if I could find something that would resemble her art, but I got nothing. Decided just to make my own 'painting' instead, and so I launched Photoshop and started googling for a cellist that looked like Alan.

I found these three images and got to work, turning them into this:

At least now it looks like a painting! I kind of would have liked it to look more like paint, with more thick drips and what-not but that's sort of hard to do ... for the half hour I spent in Photoshop I'm pretty happy with the outcome, especially because it's very close to how I'd pictured Sophie's art style and the cellist actually looks quite a bit like how I had pictured my character Alan.

Fun! Anyway, I've done more than my fair share of procrastinating today so I'd better get stuck into Flash.... Tata. :)