(From Create a New You assignment: Take an existing photo of yourself, and edit in a way to give the picture a different look. Color your hair, change your eyes, whiten your teeth, get a “tan”, etc. 2-stars)

I’ve always wanted a different look.  For a while it was deep blue eyes, sometimes it was hazel, sometimes it was one eye as one color and the other eye as the other.  Recently it’s been red hair and freckles.  I recently scrapped the freckles idea because I like to be darker.  So, I re-primped myself in GIMP to give myself lighter hair (something I have generally always wanted) and more distinct skin.  There are other subtleties that are less obvious but they’re there!  I think I’ll stick with the normal me.

I simplified my colors to emphasize the emotions. At first, the Kicker is sick and green with anticipation, showing that he has no confidence in his kick, and then he misses and he’s blue with disappointment.

This is my buddy.  His named is Doggy.  He likes long walks on the beach, horseback riding, watching football, sleepings, and of course climbing trees.  My grandma gave him to me when I was a baby. Yes I sleep with him.  I DARE YOU TO MAKE FUN OF ME.  He has probably more sentimental value to me than anything else I own.

This is my masterpiece known as the Eric Lisa, modeled after the Mona Lisa.  When posing for this photo, I wanted to be sure that I had the nature in the back ground, the arms crossed, and most importantly, the half smile/smirk/facial expression/look thing.  I think I captured this element pretty well

Have you ever noticed how colorful drugs are? Very colorful… Which leads me to ask, maybe the unicorn exploded because of drugs?

Norman Rockwell is one of my favorite artists. In this painting, Rockwell is trying to imply during the early 20th century that the United States still is a strongly Christian country. This is evident, because all the shops are closed, and the family is in their “Sunday best.” On the contrary, this shows how much society has changed. Shops are hardly ever closed on Sundays, and seeing a whole family actually dressed up and going to church is almost a rare sight. I now apply this work to the change we see in American culture in just a century.

I remember doing those Album Cover you make from randomly generated things, a ton of different methods of doing this and getting the album/artist name and the artwork. I feel really lucking with the picture and album name I got I feel like the homeless man packed up with his garbage bag suit case moving away I feel like for him Life really may have opened before him and he is moving towards it. The band name Fontanella wasn’t that interesting which is part of the reason I put it up in the sky portion of the photo and got it to kinda look as if it were the clouds. The color and font of the album name “Life has opened before you” i tried using the redish orange lights reflecting in the trash bag and put that look into the text. the font I choose becasue it seemed like something you could find on one of those cardboard signs the homeless often use. i toyed with the coloring, shadows and lights. I made the portion he was walking towards brighter and the part behind him more shadowy to illustrate the moving forward to better options and opening up. I had a lot of fun with this assignment and was very pleased with how it turned out, even though it didn’t even take me that long to actually do. the Entire thing was done in Picasa by Google.