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Self Portrait (Personal Logo)

Fall 2023

Adobe Illustrator

The reason why I created this was because my profile name of playstation references waves and these color palettes always intrigued me. The contrast between cold and warm colors is something I’m fond of. I used the pen tool for all of it plus gradient work.

Self Portrait (Eclipse)

Fall 2023

Photoshop

I always been inspired by Kentaro Miura work especially his Manga Berserk. To create this used a series of fan art mixed with actual panels from the manga. My first thought was I needed the most impactful part of the manga series so I picked the eclipse which was the turning point of the manga. From there I wanted to foreshadow the events to come. So that’s why I started adding the manga panels and the fan art in the background. I had to remove the bottom of the front image from the background so I could place the other images in the background but not be seen through the water and Griffith in the front. I used different Swatches, Gradients, and Opacities to get the feel of the background is the future to come.

Image Credits

“Berserk Eclipse Live Wallpaper”, by Luffz_.Free use fan art. https://www.reddit.com/r/Berserk/comments/lkzho7/spent_the_whole_day_making_this_berserk_eclipse/

“Berserk – The Eclipse”, by འմʂටղҽ 💜. Free use wallpaper fan art. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2185127705

“Manga E362 Void and Four Beings” by Kentaro Miura. This file was taken from the manga series Berserk, websites created and owned by Hakusensha / Berserk Production Committee, or other indicia of Berserk, the copyright of which is held by Kentaro Miura and/or Hakusensha / Berserk Production Committee. The inclusion of this creative work is not an implication of affiliation between the aforementioned parties and Berserk Wiki. Though this file is subject to copyright, it is believed that its use on Berserk Wiki qualifies as fair use given that: it provides attribution to the copyright holder(s); it is only being used as the primary means of visual identification of a subject and for informational purposes. https://berserk.fandom.com/wiki/Eclipse?file=Manga_E362_Void_and_Four_Beings.png

“Pishacha Tiger” by Kentaro Miura. it is believed that the use of this work to illustrate the subject in question, where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information, on the non-profit English Berserk Wiki, hosted on servers in the United States, qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. https://berserk.fandom.com/wiki/Pishacha?file=Pishacha+Tiger.jpg

Title: Self Portrait (Personal logo)

Semester/Year: Fall 2023

Software: Adobe Illustrator

I created this logo to possibly use as a watermark for future art pieces using shape builder, gradients, and the text effects in Illustrator.

Title: Self Portrait (Multiverse of the Mind)

Semester/Year: Fall 2023

Software: Photoshop

For my Self Portrait, I started with an image of a galaxy since I’ve always found stars and galaxies to be fascinating and a joy to watch, but being in a city makes it nearly impossible to see the night sky in all it’s glory. The bridge was added since I thought it would be an interesting concept of a character walking amongst galaxies and portals. Since I couldn’t find an image of a portal to fit my idea, all the portals are drawn with the brush tool in Photoshop and warped with the smudge tool to get the blurred and spiraled effect. The silhouette of the character walking on the bridge is my persona which I drew along with the portals, my persona is basically an entity that can create different worlds when they create a new story, hence the hand glowing as they walk. This piece is basically meant to represent my creative side since the different portals lead to different “universes” which tell a story of different characters in each one. All this was put together using compositing and drawing techniques in Photoshop to make sure everything was as well combined as my current skills allow me.

Image Credits

“Picture of a Galaxy”, by Lennard Schubert. Pexels License. https://www.pexels.com/photo/picture-of-a-galaxy-11814657/

“Bridge into a green thicket” by Marc-Antoine Dépelteau. CC0 1.0 Universal. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en

I modified “Bridge into a green thicket” by removing the background and editing it slightly to add it to my Photoshop collage.