Strange Self Portrait Brief

Tim Bereshiem

Alessandro Bavari

Jodie Cunningham

Design Brief  Strange Self Portrait

 One of Adobe Photoshop’s great features is its ability to manipulate images within their own context, sampling colour, texture, form and shape already available within the image itself. For this reason it is ideal for turning photographs into dreamlike or surreal images with seamless unification of parts.

 For the first brief you will be using these specialist features to create a self portrait using interpretations and distortions of your own head and body.  Place your new self in a ‘surreal’ textured landscape created by manipulating food drawing images and working these in with landscape images found on the internet.

 Subject:                                    Self Portrait

Image size:                                 29.5cm x 21cm 300dpi

Source images:                         High resolution images of yourself –face and body

   High resolution images of food drawings, landscapes and/or ‘urban’ scapes.

 References: Digital Artists

o       Andrew Polushkin            http://www.polushkin.net/news/en

o       Alessandro Bavari            http://www.alessandrobavari.com/english/biography/biography.htm

o       Tim Berresheim                   http://www.timberresheim.com/index.php/component/content/article/69-up-a-down-wtf-overview

Create the new you	Tools
Additional facial features	Use the marquee, lasso, quick selection, crop and move tools in conjunction with the copy and paste menu options
Changed facial proportions	Above tools & Use soft eraser to create seamless edges, clone stamp, smudge and opacity tools You will need to use them in conjunction with the copy, paste, transform and free transform menu options  Edit >transform- Scale, rotate, skew, distort, perspective, warp  Clone stamp, Burning and Dodging tools
Mismatched body parts	Above tools & rotate, flip, and adjustments menu options.
Create landscape
Texture for landscape	Manipulate your food images with the Filters. Liqify tool and Colour adjustments - hue/saturation, brightness/contrast, replace colour, colour balance, curves
Landscape & Texture	Blend your manipulated food images with a found landscape image using layer opacity and blending tools Or cut and paste pieces of each landscape together colour
Combine new you and landscape
	Refine the image - consider the elements and principles of design. Enhance and unify the images with the application of filters, adjustments, colour and saturation.
Complete
	‘Save a copy’ of image
	Flatten original image Save as JPEG in your Finished Work folder

Design Brief - variation   ‘Mixed up Chameleon’

 Eric Carle’s ‘Mixed up Chameleon’ was bored with his life. One day he saw a zoo. He started wishing that he was like some of the animals and took on their body parts until eventually he was a conglomeration of all animals. The trouble was he was very mixed up and was sad when he couldn’t catch flys anymore so he wished he was himself again and was happy.

 Are you mixed up??  If you are which animal parts would you have??

 Using the techniques above create a self portrait of your self as a conglomeration of animal parts and place it in a ‘surreal’ textured landscape.