Avatar project (first Avatar creation)

Welcome back!  This week's project was to design an avatar from a portrait.  Here is the final submission, along with a before/after side-by-side for comparison.

First, let me show you the final version.

Here is a side-by side comparison (for some reason, the conversion process darkened the main image in this one - the final shows better colors - see below):

Side-by-side

Here is the final version:

Avatar creation

Here are the photos used in the final creation:

Credit: Beautiful Waterfall in the Jungle by iCandyGirl

Credit: "Elod-Eye" by Frédéric DUPONT is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0. 

Credit: Kutia kondh woman uploaded by Kitkatcrazy~commonswiki is licensed under GNU

Creation of an Avatar - Part one (sketches)

Welcome back!  This week's project was to design an avatar from a portrait.  Here are the photos that inspired this design along with the initial sketches.

I thought this background would work well on this project:

Credit: Beautiful Waterfall in the Jungle by iCandyGirl

The basis for my Avatar will be the following image:

Credit: Kutia kondh woman uploaded by Kitkatcrazy~commonswiki and licensed under GNU

Here are my initial sketches for this project.  In the interest of full disclosure, due to my lack of artistic ability, the first sketch shown (from which the modifications have been made) was a tracing of the above image.  I felt that was the best way to visualize the modifications in a discernible fashion.

Initial Sketch

Modified as an Avatar

David Garrett Book cover final project

Welcome back!

This week, our assignment was to create the finalized version of our book cover project.  Without further a due, here is the final version:

Final Book cover for David Garrett

In this design, I leveraged the concert set background along with the concert lights and "blue" color to help delineate David Garrett's violin genre from just being a classical one, to more of a cross-over feel to align with his musical styling.

Here are the sources used in this effort:

Credit:Illustration of a treble clef by zeimusu is licensed as public domain 

Credit: David Garrett - Rock-Anthems Tour 2012 by Sabrina Andexer is licensed by CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Man Candy Monday #228 by loreleijames

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Book cover concept sketches

Welcome back! This module has us creating a book cover for a jazz, folk, or modern classical musician. After speaking with one of my daughters, who is an avid violinist, I have selected David Garrett as the musician for this project.

David is a German Pop and cross-over violinist who has been playing since age 4.

As stated previously, I am not adept at sketching, please excuse the poor quality. I am hopeful that the design still shows through.