Architectural Blend: Charlie Raggett

Dreaming of Home

At the beginning of last semester my artwork was consumed with images of London, but here I wanted to show a personal progression with both my homes feeling like they are equally weighted. Despite my American home occupying the foreground, London is still an important focal point; and I now appreciate that it's just a dream away.

Never Growing Up

Michael (static) Transformation

Michael Transformation

Retouching - Alexandra Lay

For my project I wanted to explore the idea of self and retouching. The colors look super funky because of saving it as a gif, and I now realized that I don't like the position of some of the Alex's in the image, but overall I thought that it was a successful project.

Here are the before and after images:

Retouch Project

For my project I wanted to retouch myself. I was playing with the idea of tattoos, it's not a very realistic tattoo to get but I didn't really want the final image to be realistic.

Portrait Retouch ( Before and After) - Danny Lizano

My concept is a narrative scene which depicts a couples dramatic journey. The style reflects the exaggeration of a soap opera and presented in a movie poster setup. The retouching approach I took for this project was more of hiding the "behind the scenes" that goes on in such an elaborate photo shoot. I tried to create a dynamic composition, and create an intense moment with the absent of color and high contrast with the textured background.

Retouch Project

Inspiration was The Scream by Edvard Munch. Below will be the start photo and the end result.

Project 3

For this project I wanted to create a small collection of portraits inspired by circus freak show advertisements. I researched many of the posters used by circuses and then attempted to replicate the "freaky" aspects of the individuals in three siblings from the same family. 

Project 3

Even though mermaids might not be "real," when someone thinks of a mermaid I feel like they usually think of a "perfect" and enchanting woman, or at least I do. I didn't want to only retouch myself like they would do a model in a magazine, but I wanted to add something more to it so I chose to make myself into one of the legendary, mythological creatures and show a fantasy of what our world thinks of as "beautiful."

Project 3- Retouch

For my retouching project I decided to do an image of what I look like when I wake up vs. what I think I look like when I wake up. 

Portrait Retouch

For this project I want to retouch my own portrait. I took this photo outside to get a natural light and then began to retouch. I also want to see if I could change my hair color in a natural looking way.

Retouching- Andre Powell

I decided for this project to do the "ideal perfect women" body that the media displays as natural. This was for me learning how to love yourself, and love what you were given. I myself had a hard time finding a model because of the concept that I was doing to them, when in reality everyone's perfect just the way they are.

Portrait Retouch: Elaine Phong

“얼짱 Ulzzang” is a popular South Korean beauty trend literally meaning “best face” or “good looking.” How to achieve the “Ulzzang” look is to emphasize the eyes by using many make up products such as eyelid glue, cosmetic circle lenses, eyeliner, white eyeliner, long fake eyelashes, etc. Ulzzang girls usually have fair skin, a small nose and small lips just like anime characters. The goal is to be incredibly cute.

I have always wanted to imagine myself as an Ulzzang girl for fun and thought this was a great opportunity to do so.

Eyelid Glue Video:
http://youtu.be/4SMPB3X5Osc

Ulzzang examples:

Brittany Little- Retouch

 

For this project I decided to retouch myself, I took the photo in my bedroom, where I normally do my makeup in the morning.  The retouching of this image is bringing light to all of the work they do after the makeup when doing a magazine photoshoot.

I really wanted to focus on the differences and similarities between photoshop and plastic surgery in this assignment. I see degrees of retouching as mimicking certain plastic surgery techniques. So I researched common plastic surgery procedures and determined how I could mimic results in photoshop. So before I shoot, I drew lines on my model's face that would dictate the areas that I would enlarge, push, pull etc. I also researched and applied commercial techniques such as airbrushing and selective dodge/burn.

 For this project, I gained inspiration from the theme of beauty standards of different cultures. In stories of non-fiction in particular Disney, a princess is usually regarded as the highest level of beauty. So going with this idea I wanted to portray a princess but I also thought it would be interesting and different to see her as a different ethnicity. I gained inspiration to portray a Disney Princess as another race from reading a particular article on BuzzFeed that re-imagined Disney Princesses as a different ethnicity. I wanted to show beauty from a different perspective and imagine what Snow White would look like if she were Chinese.