One image project

Younger me

For this project we all started with one image, being told we could choose any image we wanted to, whether it would be one that we have taken/ already own or one from the Internet. For the final outcome we had to create 4 different images.
Straight away I knew what photo I wanted to use and chose to use a photo of when i was a younger, all I remember about this photo is that i was at school in a p.e lesson. I look happy and excited to have a photo taken of myself.
I decided to choose this image because from where I see myself now a lot of things have changed including how different I look.

Experimentation

I started doing my experiments on small photographs to get an idea of things to do. This including drawing on the photo, ripping the paper off parts of the facial expressions and cutting bits out of one photo and sticking them on another photo but in the wrong place. This helped me choose what i wanted to pick as my 4 final pieces. I thought of other things to do and got an idea to take a photo of myself now using the same facial expression but i found getting the facial expression is really difficult to re do.

Final outcomes

First image

For the first image i decided to change the photo by drawing on top of it with pen, giving the image more depth and shadow, changing the look of 'younger me'. As seen in the experiments i tried out drawing on the image of myself now but i found it looked more like a cartoon where as the original image looks like added shade and tone.

Second image

Secondly I chose to paint over the top of the image to cover up that my brain thinks differently and i am a completely different person, I also used lots of different colours, starting off with bright colours because I was a happy person and was loving life, then i went over the bright colours with some dark colours because between then and now I had a lot of down days and wasnt really happy. Then I went back over with more bright, happy colours because now I have a more positive mind set.

Third image

For the third image I decided to chose the image where I combined the original image and the one of me now. The reason I chose this one instead of the half and half one is because i found it funny. Adding parts of the new image onto the new image changes the look completely.

Fourth image

For my fourth and final image i have decided to keep it plain and just use the original image but have four together. I like the fact that it looks like a collage without actually creating a collage and just printing it out like this.