Blog Entry 3: Completed Face Swap

This is my finished face swap! I swapped a selfie of me I took while running with the great “American Gothic” by Grant Wood. I choose this painting, because I thought it would be an easy face-swapping choice, due to the characters looking head on. Also, I have always seen this piece throughout my education, teachers have used it in my high school and middle school classes and I have always liked it. It is an accurate representation of an average farmer couple in the 1920s. To do this, I first took a cross section from the forehead on the man in the original painting, then copied it over to the picture of me running. I then took a cross section of my own face and blurred both of these cross sections so that they were one solid color. After this, I used the curves tool to edit the RGB channel outputs and created a new curve layer which masked the background picture of me running in a colorway that more cleanly overlapped with that of the painting. I then deleted the cross sections and combined the picture layer with the curve layer and took a new cross section of my face which I transported over to the painting. Here, I adjusted the transparency of my own face so that I could line it up correctly with that of the painted man’s face. Next, I made a face mask and erased all unnecessary parts of my face cross section, then put the transparency back up to 100%. Lastly, I took many new cross sections of the painted mans face and overlapped them onto my face, then stretched and morphed them to fit my face better, and I made them very transparent so that they would blend into the overall picture better.

Blog Entry 2: Color Manipulation

Greyscale: An image that has intensity but no color values.

Monotone: Only a single color is shown.

Desaturated: The intensity of color is lowered, however it does not have to be lowered completely. 

Channel Mixer: Editing the amount of red, green, and blue, within the red, green, and blue pixels.

My Personal Gallery of Art Elements & Principles of Design

The Elements of Art

Line – The path of a moving point.

 

Shape – The contour of a flat object.

 

Color – An object’s chromatic quality.

 

Value – An object’s brightness/darkness.

 

Form – A 3D object having depth.

 

Texture – The tactile quality of a surface.

 

Space – An object’s external/internal areas.

 

The Principles of Design

Balance – A distribution of equal visual weight.

 

Contrast – A juxtaposition that accentuates difference.

 

Emphasis – An accentuation of importance.

 

Movement – The directed path of optical motion.

 

Pattern – An orderly repetition of visual elements.

 

Proportion – A scaling of objects in relation to each other.

 

Alignment (Repetition) – An arrangement forming a straight line.

 

Unity – The harmonious arrangement of visual elements.

 

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Hello everyone and welcome to my digital art portfolio.

Here is where I will be posting all my material for the ART EDUCATION 2520 class taken at the Ohio State University.

I hope you enjoy!