digital painting

The Strongest area of my is is the face. I feel like it actually looks like Mario. You can see the shadows and the glare. It actually looks like the actually design of Mario. The areas that could be improved are the star. I thought I fixed it but i guess I didn't. The edge is all messed and it kind of makes me mad. The other part is one of the pant legs I missed a spot and you can see through the background and see the purple.

The easy part of this project was trying mixing the paint to make the picture look more real. This was easy because you just lightly go over the paint you want to mix and it comes together and even though it can look messy once you back away from it, it actually looks really good. The hard part of this project was trying to find the color changes and having to mark them. I missed so many of them, and had to go back and mark them which take forever, because one area can have like 4 to 5 different colors.The tools I used were the paint brush, mixer paint brush, magnetic lasso tool, and eye dropper tool. The paint brush tool was used to mark all the color changes in the original picture. It was also used to color in the new color changes with Photoshop paint. The mixer brush was used to mix different shades of color in certain areas of the picture, for example if you have red and maroon you would mix them together so it looks more natural. The magnetic lasso tool is used to select sections of the art so they can look neat with cleaner edges. The eye dropper tool is used to suck up the color of the original so you can paint over it when recreating the art.

I demonstrated the goal by recreating an original piece art by painting and making Mario once again with my own talent versus someone else's. If I could redo this I would've worked a lot faster and used the first image i chose. I would also stay after more often because this project wasn't as bad as i thought. I would also find a simpler less detailed image.