A Nazi man receives a Raptor in-between giant flowers

That's not every day that I get to draw something fun. Firstly because I never draw. Secondly because I really never draw. My handwriting is awful enough to remind me to stay away from pencils and anything close to painting creation.

Which is why, when we get that assignment to create a photoshop painting from an idea generator, I freaked out.

But then, I have to admit, the fun of creating a nazi man receiving a velociraptor in-between giant flowers helped me a bit to reconsider my skills. So after finding references online, I started painting. And man, I really, really sucked. So much that if my computer was a sheet of paper, I would have throw it away angrily (instead I was only able to wave angrily my arms with sounds of frustration.)

But I knew we were allowed to do anything we needed to achieve the painting, so I found some nice pictures of a mountain, and I just draw on it. Yes, that's cheating, but seriously, I can't draw.

But after a while I realized that this method wasn't that bad. I was only using 3 colors, and it gave a style to the image, and at the end I was even a little bit proud of it.

Then I created a tree and made it a brush, which allowed me to create the forest. The grass brush already existed.

And finally, the two characters and the flower. I used the same technique as for the mountain, and it worked pretty well. I can't draw, but at the end, I created a composition.

Now it's definitely not perfect. I don't know how to make it look nicer, and not like an element on another. That will be for next time....

When I'll be old, I'll build cities...

For my first assignment on perspectives, I decided to choose the one that looked the funnier: the 3 points perspective. But after drawing my lines, I realized it was probably also one of the hardest. There was suddenly so many lines, everywhere! Especially when I started to build my city: it just became wild.

But after a few minutes (or more probably a few hours), my futurist economic center finally started to look like something... watchable. Probably only by me.

However, after a long fight with a stubborn scanner, and a dressing under Photoshop, my buildings finally looked like actual building. Painted by a 4 years old, alright, but still, they looked cool.

Memo for the next time: drawing a box.

A few months later, adding texture to the city:

May the force of Photoshop be with you.

Here is a nice picture of myself during my winter break’s road trip in Grand Canyon:

A few days later, I heard a Star Wars event would take place in the Grand Canyon too, I was going to miss it… but as a huge fan, I decided to go back, and take the VERY SAME picture, but with the millennium falcon at the back.

 

This is so much better that way. Now some people may argue that I used Photoshop for having this result… that I actually used a mask for getting the Star Wars ships into my picture, and then added the effect “screen” to the Death Star and Star Destroyers layers for giving the impression that they are far away. They even say that I used a drop shadow for the Millennium Falcon, and a slightly motion blur for making it look more real. Finally, they add that I probably spent hours just trying to figure out what to add to that big ship for making it look even more real, but without finding a solution. But those kinds of accusations are just stupid, it was much easier to go back to the Canyon and take another picture… tsss…

Soon they will tell me that the Death Star never went at Paris for the Emperor’s holidays, that I just used a mask on the clouds… well, they weren’t there the day I took that picture too.  

 

Unfortunately, I lost the picture of myself with Darth Vader playing soccer, but I don’t desperate to find it again one day…