Chuck Close and Neil Duerden

CHUCK CLOSE

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Chuck Close appealed to me because I liked the way he displays his art through one image and can make a meaning of a person without to much elaboration. His big ideas that are presented throughout his work are taking a portrait of a family member, friend, or even himself and incorporating a pattern throughout the image to display a mysterious story of that person. His work has inspired me to take a self-portrait of myself and display my identity through my thoughts and to add a simple pattern to my art. A question that came about after reviewing Chuck's art was, why did he generally use such dark colors in his artwork? Was it beacuse these people brought about dark thoughts? Did he not like them or was depression involved? This artist will inspire my final project because I want to incorporate his idea of taking a self- portrait and display more meaning to it with the addition of a pattern that fits my personality. Styles I may choose that are different than Chuck's are brighter colors and focus the image more on what fits my personality in stead of just black and white photos. Also I would like to incorporate some images into the background that are representative of my thoughts and life. Chuck Close's artwork will greatly inspire my final project because I would like to add a pattern to my image and focus mainly on my self- portrait and not so much the background like alot of his artwork.

NEIL DUERDEN

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Neil Duerden is a well known photoshop artist that has alot of creative images throughout the media. His art appeals to me because the brightness and background images that are placed within the art all combine to describe the person in the picture. Neil's big ideas are to create photos that have multiple meanings and that are eyecatching to a viewer such as very innovative backgrounds that add more elaborate meanings to his work. His work has inspired me to add a descriptive background to my final project while incorporating the ideas of Chuck Close. After viewing Neil Duerden's work a question that arises is how does he create such  complex backgrounds while still keeping the original meaning of the picture alive? My final project will refelect Neil Duerden's due to his inspiration of such creative backgrounds. I would like to make a background in my final depiction that describes me but at the same time does not take away from the ideas of Chuck Close. My artwork will be stronger than Neil's because I want the main focus to be on me and not so much on the background so by using the background to display my identity to a minor extent will help to eliminate the distraction of a complex background.

Ohio State Practice Session

The inspiring link: http://www.worth1000.com/contests/26507/exaggeration-city-11

The Ohio State Universities, Terrell Pryor

The First Step that I used was to take the selection tool and crop Terrell Pryor out of a picture. The reason I chose him as the giant is that he is a player that Ohio State relys on to get the job done and in this picture he is the main attraction which demonstrates his importance. From the tutorial that was on http://http://www.worth1000.com// I took the idea on exagerration and applied it to the picture, only I feel that I chose a background that had less distraction and emphasized a direct meaning about the giant. The Picture above is a product of the selection tool technique which was then pasted into the picture.

Adding the michigan players was accomplished by using the magic wand and the freetransform selection. I made them small to show how unintiminating they are. They are placed at Terrell's feet to seem like it takes multiple Michigan players to take him down and it also shows a sense of defeat for the Michigan players. 

 I feel that Jim Tressel is a big factor to the success of our football team so I included him as a giant also to show his importance. This picture was meant to depict a practice session on Michigans Turf and also the domination of our football team. Jim Tressel was added with the selection tool and the contrast was changed to make him seem brighter than in the original. I also used the cropping tool to eliminate his hand motion of the right arm.

The text that is present in the sky was placed to make this picture seem like a poster. Posters made by nike and other athletic companies always seem to have a short saying that is blended in. I choose a color that I thought matched nicely but at the same time was noticeable. Overall I think that this picture represents the dominance that it was intended to display and also shows the rivalry between the schools. I applied many steps from the tutorial to this piece along with my ideas on a theme. The picture was meant to focus on the giant and the field only not neccessarily the background which sets my art aside from the others on the http://www.worth1000.com/ website.

The Blimp was added to involve the background more and show more support for the main theme. I used the magnetic lasso to outline the blimp so it could be pasted to the photo.