tattoo assignment

The strongest technical aspect of my tattoo assignment was the change in opacity and usage of the warp tool.  By bending the design to wrap around the body I was able to create a realistic tattoo for the girl's frame and body.  The opacity had to be adjusted in order to seem more worn in and natural. The technical aspect I need to work on is the burn and dodge tool.  I needed to highlight brighter parts of the body and darken the shadows so the tattoo would be contoured better. Then my work would appear to be even more natural as if i never even photoshopped a design on her body at all.

The easiest part of this project was desaturating the photograph and finding a part of the body to place the tattoo on.  The girl I chose had a lot of open skin to work with but the shoulder blade specifically had a highlight to it surrounded by shadows.  Desaturating the image was simple because it was just a matter of locating the tool bar and choosing the level of brightness and darkness I wanted by grey scale to be. The hardest part of the project was warping the tattoo to resemble an actual tattoo.  The way the skin bends and folds means the design needs to follow the natural look of the skin.  I struggled in dragging the tattoo around the shadows to look as if it was sinking into the skin.

I accomplished the object of the art assignment by selecting a picture, desaturating it and blending a tattoo onto the woman's back so that I successfully learned how to blend objects naturally together with the warp tool, dodge tool and burn tool.  Something I would change about this project is maybe I would have chosen a different design to work with that would have blent easier.