Category: Self Portrait

title: dancing in my room

semester/year: fall 2023

software: photoshop

I chose these images because I knew I wanted to create an atmosphere that had things I liked in them. pink is my favorite color so I hued the bedroom to match that. I edited two photos of cats together to show the cat listening to music while holding an iPad, I did this because I love music, drawing on my iPad, and cats. if you look at the background there is a switch and a Sanrio poster, I like the Sanrio characters and sometimes like to draw. I combined 7 images. the most challenging part was holding back, I didn’t want to use too many images so it was hard trying to keep things to a minimum.

credits:

“Cool Teen Room Ideas Bedroom Designs For Young Women” by Lisa Voss. N/A license. Flickr. Uploaded on July 24, 2014. link

“Playful ginger cat png animal, transparent background” by unknown. CC0 1.0 Deed license. rawpixel. date uploaded unknown. link

“IPad Pro 11 silver” by 彭家杰. GNU Free Documentation License. Wikimedia. November 11th, 2018. link

“short-coated white smiling cat” by unknown. unknown license. pickpik. unknown upload date. link

“Red Frosted 3D Headphones” by Mumuxi. ️Pngtree license. Pngtree. Apr 16, 2020. link

Sanrio image, unknown origin. link

“nintendo-switch-console-docked-wjoyconrb” by unknown. Vanamo Media Public Domain (?). 06/21/2017. link

title: me but im a vampire

semester/year: fall 2023

software: illustrator

This project represents because it has my favorite shapes, colors, and my likenesses. My inspiration was me of course, and the concept of vampires. I decided to make myself one while also having those bright colors (pink and purple) to fit my aesthetic and personality. I think the most challenging part of the project was using Illustrator, I overcame this by experimenting and rewatching the demos.

Title : Artistic Interpretations

FALL 2023

By Franqui Ortiz

SOFTWARE: Photoshop

I am a VAT major and I am a big fan of film directors David Fincher (Fight Club, The Social Network, Gone Girl) and James Cameron ( Avatar, Terminator, Titanic) In this post I used basic image layers and images posted with a creative commons license to convey the differing yet equally valid approaches to filmmaking taken by both men. They each have made many fantastic films that take you a journey while also providing commentary on society and humanity but choose to do things for different reasons.

Title: Self Portrait (Me and the golden gate)

Semester/Year: 2023 Fall 

Software: adobe Photoshop 

Description (3-4 sentences giving the person looking at your work insight into your creative and technical process. For example: Why did you choose these images – how do they represent you? How many images did you combine? What were your sources of inspiration? What was the most challenging part of the project and how did you solve it? etc.): 

My goal in making this composition, which features the famous Golden Gate Bridge, was to both capture the bridge’s ageless beauty and add a dash of my interpretation to it. The choice of a vibrant sunset as the background represents both the end of the day and the best parts of life. I carefully stitched together several photos to merge the elegant structural lines of the bridge with the warm colors of the sky. I wanted to inspire feelings of curiosity and nostalgia, therefore I looked to vintage postcard aesthetics for inspiration. The most difficult part of this job was bringing divergent parts together seamlessly. This was accomplished by paying close attention to every little detail and using sophisticated photo-editing methods. Ultimately, this work is a tribute to the intersection of nature and human ingenuity, encapsulating the spirit of an enduring symbol in a unique and personal light.

Image Credits

List all the images you found online. Please follow this format: “Golden Gate Bridge View – Battery Spencer at Fort Baker, Conzelman Rd, Sausalito, CA, USA” by The Pinnacle List. Copyright © 2023  Media Inc. The Pinnacle List. May 2023. https://www.thepinnaclelist.com/articles/san-francisco-real-estate-one-of-the-hottest-housing-markets-america/attachment/06-golden-gate-bridge-view-battery-spencer-at-fort-baker-conzelman-rd-sausalito-ca-usa/

“Self portrait” by Hak. December 2021. Location Kalaw, Shan State, Myanmar.

I modified my photo by taking out my whole body and adding it to top of my photoshop collage.

Tittle: Youtube Channel Logo

Title: The Logo

Semester/Year: 2023 Fall

Software: Adobe Ilustrator

I created a new logo to use for my youtube channel which will be mainly focus on the camera review and unboxing vlogs.

Title: Briana Ceron self portrait

Semester: Fall 2023

Software: Photoshop

For my self portrait I choose images centered around the photo of me. I wanted to create a fantasy world, that I thought would be really cool to live in. The three main background images that I chose were glittering stars, Saturn, and a photo of a flower field. I specifically chose those images for my world settings because imagine if our sky was to look like that, with the moon being replaced by Saturn and the huge rings around it and looking up a stars that glitter, that would be very cool. I chose to add the flower field because I love flowers and greenery and it only felt right to add myself sitting in a flower field. The most challenging part was making sure that none of the backgrounds of each photo were noticeable, to solve that I just took my time with the refine edge brush tool.

Image Credits

All the Glittering Stars by NASA ESA and T. Brown. CC By Flickr. January 15, 2018. https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasamarshall/27927586499/in/photostream/

Saturn 2019 June 20 By Judy Schmidt. CC By Flicker. June 22, 2019. https://www.flickr.com/photos/geckzilla/48106116216/in/photostream/

Mountain Field. CC Peakpx. https://www.peakpx.com/en/hd-wallpaper-desktop-pwcra

Title: SeLf PoRtRaIt

Semester: Fall 2023

Software: Illustrator

I wanted to have a weird distorted portrait just to make it more fun and bring out creativity. I chose to have a lot of the black, purple and light pink circles in the background because purple is one of my favorite colors and the hit of pink makes it really pop more. For the actual face portion of the portrait I wanted to do something inspired by Pablo Picasso’s self portraits. When I think of self portrait, his iconic art style always comes in mind. The most challenging part of this project was truly understanding all of the tools and how to get them to do what I wanted. I just played around with everything till I got somewhere close to my vision.

Title: Self Portraying Collage

Semester/Year: Fall 2023

Program Used: Photoshop

This picture takes places in Brazil, my favorite place to go on vacation to explore nature, and enjoy delicious fruits and dishes. I chose this picture, because it’s my personal favorite photo, it reminds me of a nice place, and I wanted to show the visualization of my perception of what’s going on in the picture. I’ve used two gradient maps and masking in order to balance the two in abstract. The photos of the sushi and hotdogs are my own, and they’re also some of my favorite foods. The most challenging aspect of this portrait was getting the lighting right on every other subject, such as the food, or the subjects in the foreground.

Title: Self Portraying Vector

Semester/Year: Fall 2023

Program Used: Illustrator

For this program, I had shapes and abstraction in mind while again using a spectrum of my favorite colors. This segment of the self portrait project was really fun, it felt like I summarized myself with the vectorized portrait; through color, style, and emotion. Some of my challenges for this project included figuring out how to trace over a sketch, and figuring out how to outline the fingers without making the lines look off-putting. As for the process, I primarily used the shape, and pen tool.