First Blog: March 2012

My theme is the Light and Dark side of a game character "Arthas Menethil". He is a prince who wants to be the best king his kingdom ever had, and to do that, he wanted to power to protect people. He made some errors in his ways of gaining power, and used too much darkness to get that power and slowly turns more evil and becomes the most infamous, hated prince, the Prince of Darkness.

Hopefully the contrast is and folds are good enough to make his 2 faces visible. So, the blue is an image of him when he was the heroic leader figure his kingdom looked up to, and the red image is him after he turns dark and kills his kingdom. If you look closely, you can see the blue face has a promising gentle face with just a little smile, while the red face has really dark creepy eyes and a big grin.

But somewhere on the inside is a mental battle to do GOOD again. It's almost like he has a double personality and fights with himself. The colors seem to be showing that as well.

Jayan Saputra's Passion Fire

Done with photoshop.

This work looks expresses happiness/excitement to me, not just because the girl in the image is smiling, but because the fire she is emitting expresses her feeling of excitment. There is some really good constrast from bright yellow/orange to black. The black background is making making the girl the most dominant part of the image. The fire itself shows movement and the girl swinging he fire hair also shows movement. However there are also embers flying all over the black background which looks like they're flying off of her. In conclusion I believe this image shows excitement through the facial expression and the wild fire hair flowing in the wind, there is a lot of contrast, and movement with the embers and fire hair.

Here is the artist's photoshop tutorial on how to do this. ---> http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/photo-effects-tutorials/flaming-photo-manipulation/

#2 Perrier by, unkown artist (France)

Painting

Perrier is a French corbonated beverage.

The feeling I got from this image is thirst. There isn't too much contrast in this painting, but it does have movement with the Tennis player reaching for the drinks, and everything melting. I also believe that is the reason why this commercial makes me so thirsty, because EVERYTHING, excluding the drinks, is melting.

#3
Stairway, by Jean-claude Berens

This picture shows one of my biggest fears, vertigo. Although even though it's scary, it's also really cool looking. The way objects bend more and more into the focal point. The contrast in this image is from the buttom of the stairs haveing the darkest lighting, to the top of the stairs, having the brightest lighting. The movement is shown through the spiral stairs moving up, making the viewer a little dizzy. I looked at a lot of vertigo images like this one and this is the one that really made me feel like I was going to fall backwards on my head.

Arbeta pa Havet, by Erik Johansson

Photography and retouching

This picture is awesome because the first second I looked at it I noticed the blue ocean and the white clouds, and noticed the person painting the floor blue and that it's not a real ocean. However the Blue standing out from all the grey shades makes it give the illusion that it is an ocean. The way the edge of the blue paint it made, looks like waves, I think that's a cool example of motion.

But this is nothing, he has even cooler stuff. ----> http://alltelleringet.com/portfolio/personal/