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Penguins everywhere

So this was our first un-tutorial related assignment: Creating a portrait with a real background, a cartoon character, and a picture of us interacting with that character. Since I really like penguins, I decided I had to do something penuin-related. I chose a photo of Antarctica as my background, and my cartoon characters included the penguins from the movie "Madagascar" and Pengu. My friend Katelynn took a few pictures of me for the final layers. As you can see, I have two interactions with my characters: when I'm sitting on top of the fat one and when I'm hugging the other. I had to erase part of my legs to make it look like I was actually sitting on the shoulders of the first penguin. For the second "me" I had to erase part of my arm. After I finished erasing all the rough edges and fitting everything together, I added drop shadows to make the photo look more realistic and 3-D. I used the burn tool to add darkness so that the shadows would look even more realistic. I really liked this project, but it was hard to start at first because I'm still getting used to photoshop.

Penguin tounge!!1!1

For our next tutorial, we had to make a tounge look like it was in the shape of an animal. This was harder than our previous assignment because it required more focus and use of different tools. I think my tounge turned out okay, but it could have been better. I messed it up a little when we were using the clone tool to transfer the tounge color to the animal, so that affected my final picture.

super sassy pancakes

This was the first tutorial we ever did in computer art class. We took an ordinary stack of pancakes and layered fish jaws over it. It was difficult at first because I had to get used to using all the tools in Photoshop, but as I became more comfortable it became easier. I think I was pretty succesful with this assignment, since it was the first thing I ever did in Photoshop.