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Title: Embodiment of me

Fall 2023

Photoshop

This collage is meant to identify me as a person. I wanted to create an image that represents me using the things that I love. For starters, the background is an image of the New York City streets that I walk daily is overlayed with stars. I love astrology and wish that I could see the starts in the sky while walking at nighttime. I placed a woman walking with the head of an elephant, which is my spirit animal. Lastly, I used an image of piano keys as the street the woman walks on, since I am a pianist.

Sourced Images: “

See the Stars at Mammoth Cave National Park.” by NPS Photo https://www.nps.gov/maca/learn/management/international-dark-sky-park.htm

Piano Keys Keyboard by Iguanat CC License https://pixabay.com/photos/piano-keys-keyboard-music-2412404

African Bush Elephant by Godot 13 CC License https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elephant_%28Loxodonta_Africana%29_04.jpg

Woman walking on hallway by unknown CC License https://www.wallpaperflare.com/explore-more-woman-walking-on-hallway-curlyhair-redhair-portrait-wallpaper-zcrdk

NYC Sidewalk by unknown CC0 Public Domain https://pxhere.com/en/photo/971390

Title: Geometric

Fall 2023

Adobe Illustrator

This is meant to be a portrait of myself made with adobe illustrator. I made a simplistic version of myself using numerous shapes. The eyes have been left out so I can emphasize my glasses and how the flare makes it difficult to see my eyes with them on. The hair is asymmetrical because, like in real life, my hair and curl pattern is not at all equal, and it flows in different ways.

Title: I see you (Self Portrait)

Semester/Year: Fall 2023

Program Used: Illustrator

I wanted to use something simple, and cool but also somewhat personal. I used stippling rather than gradients for some shadows, I felt that it gave it some texture which I found attractive then the sharpness vectors gave off. I created most of the stippling using Image Trace, but everything else were just shapes. My inspiration came from some of my favorite characters growing up, their attitudes edged on cynicism, seeing the world like a passive observer.

Title: (Head in the clouds) Self Portrait Collage

Semester/Year: Fall 2023

Program Used: Photoshop

This work was a collage, I used masking to try to give the illusion of depth and make the subject seem natural in the environment. Most of the inspiration was from using themes prevalent in hip hop culture and reimagining it in an ironic way. Although the theme I was going for was somewhat encompassed in the work I feel like the black and whiteness gave it a subdued feeling which felt right in this composition.

“Photo of Lightning” Philippe Donn. Pexels. May 25, 2018 https://www.pexels.com/photo/photo-of-lightning-1114690/

“Photo of Lightning” Aleksandar Pasaric. Pexels. February 18th, 2017 https://www.pexels.com/photo/view-of-cityscape-325185/

Title: Peaceful Lion and Monkey in a peaceful Jungle

Semester: Fall 2023

Software: Adobe Photoshop

For this project, I picked the image of the lion in a forest from the internet, I also saved an image of the donkey that was sitting on branch tree. I used photoshop to select the monkey and put it near the lion, I cropped it change the color to make it smilar to the lion color. For this image to look real, I change the color and used “photo repair-sepia” to make it look it original.

This project is an illustration to tell people that we can leave in peace and harmony and stop all kind of wars or division. If a lion and a monkey can be together leaving without fighting; what about us, human beings that have consciousness ?

Image Credit:

“Lioness at Okonjima Lodge, Namibia” by Falense. Attribution-share Alike 3.0 Unported Licence. Wikimedia Common. April 9,2006.  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Okonjima_Lioness.jpg

“lion (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique” by Thomas Shahan. Creative Common Attribution 2.0 Generic Licence. Wikimedia Common. May 23,2018.  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Okonjima_Lioness.jpg

Title: Self Portrait (English online Logo)

Semester: Fall 2023

Software: Adobe Illustrator

For this Project, I took the occasion to create a logo or image to advertise a business that I have on my mind: Giving English to non native speaker.

I used shapes, color, text and other options and buttons of the toolbar to draw a computer where I wrote a text to really say the main objective of the business.