Tattoo

I believe the strongest area of my work is the tattoo itself. I really liked how it came out. The rose was the only part i had to trace but the cross and vines I did on my own which i was really impressed with because I'm not really artistic. I think the composition of my work can be improved i think the tattoo may be too bright in some places. And maybe too dark in the shadows. The easy part of this activity was being able to draw. It was also easy to just stick it on the image. Being able to draw and express something you enjoy make the project easier.

The difficult part of the project was coming up with an idea. I knew i wanted to do a cross but I did not know what I wanted to go with it, until I started looking on the internet. That's when I go the idea of the rose. Another difficult part was trying to draw something as complex as a rose, so I ended up tracing it. The tools that were used were the, move tool, dodge, burn, warp, and multiply, also the quick selection and blur. The move tool was used to move the scanned image of the tattoo on to the picture. Afterwards I used the quick selection to remove all the white from the outside of the image. Then I used multiply, that is used to remove the white from the inside of the tattoo. Then i warped the image so it looked like it was on my arm and bent it so it look as if it was stretched on my arm. Dodge was used to make the tattoo on the light parts of my arm look light as well. Burn was used on the shadows to make dark parts look darker. Then blur was used to blend the tattoo to my arm so it looked like an actual picture.

The goal was to draw a tattoo and Photoshop it onto a part of your body. I demonstrated this goal by drawing an original tattoo of a cross and rose. The tattoo was drawn and was completely my idea. Also I photo shopped it myself using all of the necessary tools that needed to be used. If I were to start over I would use the same tattoo but I would probably shade the cross and maybe add color to the the cross and vines. I might also add some more details to the tattoo. And I would take a picture sooner so I would have the project done in time.