8 pannel project (Last assignment)

My inspirartion for this was a game a friend and I are wanting to create.
I have the character designs for the 2 main characters, Akira and Miyabi. I've included the 2 ages you see the characters in the game also.
Then I have the English and Japanese logos. The Japanese one says Monokuro No Hana wich translates to Monochrome Flower.
Then we have 3 of the backgrounds. These are all from the internet, but I retouched them, used the protocols and blurred them a little. I used the blur because the main forus will be on the characters, which I will draw and put in later to go with the story.
I've got the outside mansion and inside mansion shots. This mansion belongs to Akira.
Then the classroom shot, because this game starts with the 2 main characters meeting in the classroom.

This actually turned out to be more than 8 pannels, but I still like it. The more the merrier, right?

Newspaper-Final Exam

My inspiration for this project was school moments.

I thought of what I wanted to remember from the year so far.

I am gradding this year, so I picked things that I want to remember.

Picture choice:

Bears: Although I am not into sports I want to remember the sports teams because they are a part of the school and are important to school life.

Rodeo- Reminds me of Mr.Smith. He was my Japanese 10 teacher and he also runs the rodeo club.

Play- The School play practice because I was in the Drama club, but I dropped out. I do want to remember the fun times I had while I was there.

No-Shave November: Mr. Capmbell is the Anime Club sponsor and also my Japanese 11 and 12 teacher. It is nice that he did no-shave November to inspire students to do the same.

Soccer- I have a friend who is good with soccer and is in the soccer acadamy. Again, sports make the school fun for some people/

Terry Fox Run- The last one I will be in (Cause i'm gradding) and I walked with a nice group of friends.

Halloween- Probably the last one I will spend with all my friends because they will be moving away to go to school. Also, I made Shannon's costume and she looks amazing!

Winter Formal- I had fun at this and I really want to remember it. The first school dance that I actually had fun at.

Arts For Equador- I sang a song with a friend(who was playing the guitar). That will probably be the last time i'll be able to participate in something like this.

I want to remember highschool because it has really opened up the world for me. I was able to make many friends and even start my own club. I'll be sad to grad...and i'm sad to leave this class too. I really enjoyed this class.

Art In Action

My submission for the contest ^^

Snow scene

First off i created 3 layers. Light, Dark and Background.

Then i lightened the light later and erased the sky. Then i made the sku more blue. And blended the images together.

I dodged a few parts of the snow.

Then I saved it ^^

Art Gallery idea

This is the print I would like to put into the gallery.

For what I did, please see
http://sakuraelric.blogspot.com/2010/11/green-screen-work.html

Final Project

I chose to do the 8 pannel final project.

These are my first 2 pannels. The english and Japanese logo. They were both made completely with photoshop.

I plan on(at a later date) making this into a game walkthrough type of thing.

But for the project i'm am including my planning stages. The Charaacter designs will be taking up most of the project.This may end up being more than 8 pannels, i'm not 100% sure yet.

What I plan to include is:

1-Logos

2-Akira design-17

3-Akira design-19

4-Miyabi design-18

5-Miyabi design-20

6-Takeshi design

7-Miyaki design-16

8-Shira design-20

Mystical light

First off I darkened the image using the selective color tool. Then I created 3 layers and used 3 different lense flare effects. I blurred 2 of the 3 layers

Then I dodged behind the light on the original image to create more brightness.
I tried to make it look like there was a little reflection of the light on the water.

Then I made a black layer and changed the opacity so the image looked dark.

Then i did another black layer and erased the middle part and where the light was. This created a little darker Vingette.

Then I saved it.