Optical Devices!!!!

      Hey everyone! So I had found this cool toy that people in the 1800's would entertain themselves with. This certain object was called a Thaumatrope. The Thaumatrope was a pretty complex toy, that would have two pictures in it. When you pull the strings quickly it would make a type of animation. Although it wasn't as popular, and as exciting, it would be a pretty cool toy. Since back in the day no one had t.v. so watching this would probably make time fly. It would be like a mini flip book. It seems like a cool toy, and I would like to see one now!!

      This website did show all of the old optical toys, but it wasn't much of a interesting site. It was boring looking, they should try and make it more appealing to make more people look at it. Also maybe explain the toys more about how they work and everything.

Amazing Photoshop Tutorial

      This is a really cool Photoshop technique, because this will help you a lot with the blending that you would do. It helps you make your piece all the more lifelike. What is really cool is the fact that the sun rays really look cool. Also the instructions are so easy to follow, and the pictures show exactly what you have to do. It and easy thing to do, and the site has many more options.

So check this site out!! Check out this site!! <-------------Quick!!!!!!!!


^This is how the picture turns out in the end

Photoshop Trial

       This is my Photoshop trial. For this trial what we had to do was learn all the basic steps on how to make a picture. Also blending pictures and all this cool stuff. So what I had tried to do was have the waterfall and then just make these people act like it was a water slide.

      So what I had did to make this picture was have two layers. Then on the first layer what I had put was the background. The background was the waterfall. So what I did was just put it in, then on the second layer I had put the pictures of the people in the tube.  But then I had to cut away the rest of the picture. Which was easy to do as I had just used the quick selector tool, and selected all of the red from the original picture. But when I had to get really precise I had zoomed in and then used the lasso tool to cut away the excess colour. After that what I had done was move it around until it had worked with the background. Then I had went back on the background  and blurred up a bit of the water while it was falling. Just to make it look smoother.  The last thing I did was just make the opacity of the people a little bit lower. Just so it worked better with the background.
       That is pretty much all I had did, and I hope you enjoyed my picture. Although it isn't the best (I know) but we were just testing it out.Plus I had fun making it. So Enjoy!! :)

Hieronymus Bosch and Surrealism!!

Hi everyone!
So I had to do a project on a surreal artist. So I had chosen Hieronymus Bosch.
He was one of the first ever surreal artist and was a pretty cool guy. You can learn some more on my Prezi!!
Go visit it now!!!!
Hieronymus Bosch Presentation <--------Hurry Click the Link!!!!

Chess Piece

      This is my chess piece. For this chess piece drawing I had to make sure the background had movement. Also the chess piece was proportional.  It had to have a sense of rhythm and draw your eyes.  Also the value of the chess piece and background had to be accurate. Especially from the point of view you were drawing it in.

       So for mine I had just looked at my chess piece straight. So the ends especially have darker values. Although my chess piece does not look so super realistic like I was hoping for it did turn out pretty good with the shading.  To get my chess piece to look like this I had set it down on a table, and then put a book right beside it to make it darker. After I had put a bright light so it adds some more value to the picture. In this picture the proportion of the chess piece was meant to be small. This way your eye will go to it more. Although you can still tell it was a chess piece. 

      Now for the background for this piece I would say is the best part of the picture. I really liked the way it had turned out in the end. In the beginning I had thought that maybe it wouldn't work out that well. All because it was some what difficult to do , because of the  way it had to be shaded. The whole background had to come from memory which was hard, but it did turn out well and I am really happy about that. So for the movement in this picture. The movement is very good I would think, because it draws your eyes all along the page and brings it back to the chess piece too. Since the middle of the background (right at the chess piece) has a very 3D sort of motion in it. It sort of looks like there is a hole there and it is getting bigger as it moves out. 

      Overall for my chess piece I think I did a pretty good job with the chess piece. But an amazing job for the background of it. It had met all the standards of the moving your eyes around the page. So I think I did a good job,and I hope you enjoyed this too!!! :)