For this project, I chose Yayoi Cusama, a famous Japanese artist. I chose her because she is a well-known, refined Asian artist who has a high technique of making art. As myself who is a student studying art, Kusama’s overcome of own trauma by making art moved my mind. Also, her aspect of making various, eye-taking patterns is something I really like. So I tried to face swap with her. I chose the image of Kusama with a fierce, vivid color of red, and I matched it with myself in a strong red makeup. As I went through the tutorial, those two matched really well, and I am really satisfied how it turned out. It was such a great way to make a spiritual connection with myself and this artist.
For the tutorials I have been using for this work, the first one with Mona Risa and Trump was helpful to me. I think it is because I am familiar with adjusting actual settings and colors with Photoshop, so It was more easy to place the face manually and make the color fit by myself. I was thinking that if I could make tutorial on top of this, I would add how to adjust the color balance, hue and saturation of the swapped face, and overall image. By telling people how to do that in step-by-step screenshots, It won’t be so hard, and this technique would make the image more actual and natural as we swap the face.