This is my self portrait. I finished two cycle in the design cycle. I like my picture because I think that the flame and ice looks cool and the idea of representing me using metal was creative and good. I also like the “STAINLESS STEEL” on my finger because I a, always perfect (in my world) and I don't have any stain. I took that from my skating shoes. I am planning to changed my background because I thought that the keyboard does not match my theme. My theme is based on a song that I like which is from my favorite video game. The song is about a boy remembering the past through a video game.
I used metal to cover myself because metal gets hot and cold easily which is just like me because I get in to new hobbies easily but I get bored of it easily too I used the paintbrush tool, the dodge tool and the smudge tool to make flame and ice on the metal. I lined up almost all the things that I liked in the past and made it black and white because I thought that it will look more like a memory in the past if I use black and white. I used “Colorize” to make it black and white (I made the saturation 0). I put a picture that I drew of a person head spinning because that is what I like to do best right now so I used the RBG Noise filter to make it look like a zoomed in flat screen TV because I thought that the flat screen TV represents the Present and I used the smudge tool to make it look like a flame, like it is burning to make it relate to the metal. I decided not to use distortion in my seld portrait beacuse I thought that I dont have any place to use distortion. I thought of using distortion for the things that I liked in the past but if I use distortion than I thought that it will make it look like I don't remember it that much which is what I don't want.
I had my second draft done but I decided to change it because I thought that it is hard to get my theme from my second draft so I made changes to it to make the theme more obvious. I used the blend tool to make the background a shade of black and cian because other colors that I tried made it harder to see the picture. I made the shape of an "C" with "Rockman"s (name of character) to make the background more interesting and also to make it look like I have many memories of it. So I used the colorize tool to change the color because I thought that, that will make it look like I have many different memories of it. I also put the thing that I used to like in the edge because I think that, that will make it looks more like its not that important for me anymore.
"億千万" is the song that inspired me to make a self portrait about this theme.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NonZNz_nhTc ←This is the song (It is in Japanese)
I had my second draft done but I decided to change it because I thought that it is hard to get my theme from my second draft so I made changes to it to make the theme more obvious. I used the blend tool to make the background a shade of black and cian because other colors that I tried made it harder to see the picture. I made the shape of an "C" with "Rockman"s (name of character) to make the background more interesting and also to make it look like I have many memories of it. So I used the colorize tool to change the color because I thought that, that will make it look like I have many different memories of it. I also put the thing that I used to like in the edge because I think that, that will make it looks more like its not that important for me anymore.
"億千万" is the song that inspired me to make a self portrait about this theme.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NonZNz_nhTc ←This is the song (It is in Japanese)
