Continuous Process

Progress in Destruction

I don't even know what's going on here, but I like it.

DESTROY THE ICON

Take an iconic photograph, destroy it and make it your own.

Just the beginning...

Reworking

So today I discovered the magic known as the "Mesh Tool". This has done wonders and is so much fun to use once you mess around with it for a bit.

Okay, this is looking a bit better.

Finalizing First Project

Okay, so in this version I added a little bit of my sense of humor. Put in the "dust bunny" for the vacuum which is being sucked up. And the eyes have a look of horror and stupidity. And the vacuum head has the little fangs for special effect. 

Composition

Trying to work with some suggestions I received in class, not really happy with the snake skin texture. It was hard live tracing it and trying to distort it without a preview of it on the snake. I want to try the idea of a "dust bunny" to go with the vacuum snake. Need to work on value, vacuum head of snake, and placement of the head.

Vectors

Live Trace did not work well with the snake so I needed to do everything by hand. It's looking more snake-like than it did before, even with its flaws.

Here one can see the different elements I am vectoring which will eventually come together, I need to now begin on the composition of the scene.

My first attempt of a combination of the household appliance and the snake and making it come together a little more in the big picture.

This time I remembered to expand the grass image to actually make it into a vector so now I need to work on my layering

More of a desert type scene