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When first looking at the instructions for this week’s sketch, I immediately thought that I would like to use nature as the background and another object as part of nature. So my first idea was to use a broccoli and an image of mountains as the head of the broccoli. However, I found it weird to have the mountains as the head and felt that it couldn’t show the beauty of the mountains. So I decided to keep the broccoli but not the mountains. Then I remembered the scene in Shawshank where Andy makes Red find a tree. That tree felt like a holy tree that helped Red let go of himself, so I wanted to make a combo-photo of broccoli in a beautiful background and appear as a sacred tree. When finding a photo of a broccoli, it was hard to find one standing, looking normal and was clean. When editing the two images, it took some time for me to get used to the ‘cut out’ technology, but after getting used to it, I enjoyed making the two photos smooth into each other as if it was a single photo. The final image conveys that many things come from nature and that nature has the power even to make a single broccoli seem to be holy.

Image Credit

• Broccoli: Uploaded by “Lux Obscura” found on Flickr
• Nature: Uploaded by “Steven Penton” found on Flickr

In searching for materials for this assignment, I was particularly attracted by the slender structure of my tripod. Like the legs of an iron octopus — this idea came to mind and inspired me to create an “industrial octopus monster”. The idea of octopus naturally led me to use my ink bottle as the head. Then, to create a sense of suspension, I found this place in my res hall that has an EXIT sign shining in bold red light and took pictures of the objects there. Lastly, combined the two pictures through procreate. Done! An elegant metal octopus lurking in the corner of the basement.

For this sketch assignment, I was confused at first. It was hard trying to think about what I could combine. My first thought was to combine an orange and the sun or an eye and coffee mug. However, that did not work out. Then I started to look at butterflies, but I could not think of anything that I could combine with it. Then, I started to look at fishes and I noticed in one of the pictures that the tail kind of looked like a butterfly wing. At first, I did try to combine it with another half of a real butterfly, but it did not look how I intended. So, I decided to combine two fish tails to create a butterfly. I think that combining the images to make it look realistic was pretty hard. In the end, if I were to look at my image as the audience and not as the creator, I would think that it conveys the connection that most things are very similar, but different. Yet, they still manage to connect with one another.

Link To Images Used

The process of creating this image took more brainpower than I anticipated. If it were not for my feud with technology, I am sure this would have been more smooth sailing. For the longest period of time, cropping the sausage picture proved difficult. I also used pixlr which is an editing application that I am quite unfamiliar with. At the end of the day, I gave up and used Word, cropped the sausage into an oval shape and placed on top of my fingers. Although the process was frustrating, I am satisfied with the end result. The inspiration came from the Shrek 2 movie with the insult, “Don’t you point those dirty green sausages at me!”. I don’t particularly think that this image conveys a message other than the limitations of my knowledge in a photo editing application.

Initially, I wanted to use a beach and substitute the sand for the yellowish frosting you find on cakes. While searching for pictures of beaches, I came across a picture of a blowhole and thought it would look cool if instead of the water being shot up into the air because of it hitting against rocks, it was shot out of a massive aerosol can.

With that idea, I got these two pictures and layered them on top of each other giving the impression of a large spray can spouting water into the air.

The hardest part of this project was the meticulous cropping of the spray can. Clearly, I didn’t do a great job, however, with the resources and time I had allocated for it, I feel I did a fine enough job.

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