The Life of a Superhero

First visual assignment I worked on this week was The Life of a Superhero assignment. I really love the idea that superhero’s seem to live such a glamorous life of saving people all day, but in reality they have to do normal things too!!! For this assignment I decided to make an image of Batman playing catch with a puppy, because who does not love puppies.

First step I did was look for an image of batman that would work for the idea of throwing a ball, which ended up not being successful. None of the images worked well for cropping onto another image. I started with this image of Batman, which did not work because his lack of legs.

So then I moved onto a picture of Batman with legs! So for my final image I used this picture to crop on top of the image of the dog playing fetch!

But to get his entire body into the photo app editor Pasteify I had to scale the size down slightly and really used this version of the image. I love using Pasteify because it is really simple and easy to use which is awesome since I have relatively low computer skills. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for an app that allows them to crop and paste images together.

Then I added in the back drop for this image, which is of a cute little puppy playing fetch in the yard.

Then for the final image of Batman playing catch with his pup!

This was a relatively easy assignment to complete once I figured out the creative side and decided what I everyday activity I was going to have Batman doing. I now picture every superhero playing with their very own loyal sidekick pup!

A Day in the Life of Morph Shadow

Make an image of a superhero in an everyday life situation.

For the assignment, The Life of A Superhero, I decided to create an image of my hero Morph Shadow in a classroom. Because Morph Shadow aka Melinda is 21 and a senior at UMW, her everyday life is going to school to get a degree in criminal justice. I found a photo of a library/classroom at Unsplash and decided to use that as my backdrop. Then, I went to DCKids and created Morph Shadow the way I envision her to look. I took her character and put her in the classroom where she goes five days a week. Of course, she does not show up to class in her superhero outfit as she doesn’t want anyone knowing about her powers, as she fears they will think she is crazy. Maybe one day Morph Shadow will be brave enough to tell everyone about her powers so she can wear her super cool hero outfit to school because everyone would love it.

The life of a Superhero

What do they do when they’re not superhero-ing? Probably laundry, or getting the oil changed, or any of the other myriad mundane chores we all have to do. Make an image of a superhero in an everyday life situation.