- "as a culture sophisticates, it deepens its reliance on its images, icons, and symbols- then in its on way-so it defines itself"
- a portrait is an expression of yourself: it can be a city, a child, a nation, or a thought.
The first statement reminded me of superheroes, particularly Batman(especially after seeing The Dark Knight). I took a line drawing of Batman, found here, colored it in on a new layer, then got rid of the background layer, leaving only the black canvas and colored areas to make it look as if he was coming out of the shadows.
The second part of the assignment was to selectively add color to a photo. For my second image, I took both statements into consideration.
Keeping within the Batman/Superhero theme, I used an photo of myself with me girlfriend and used a combination of the paint brush and smudge tool to make it look as if I am wearing Joker face paint(a la The Dark Knight) . I used this image of Heath Ledger as The Joker as reference point. I then added a blueish tint to keep it more in tone with the movie and the "Why so serious?" tagline taken from one of the films posters.
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