This week's brief has me turning myself into an Avatar, you know, the blue kind. . 

In retrospect, the tutorial started out with a perfect model, flawless skin already tweaked to perfection. I jumped right in and it proved to be a mistake, but a good learning tool. I wasn't quite sure how the sketch process was supposed to work with this. Maybe it should have been about picture choice.

I say it was a mistake because, dang, wrinkles look SO much worse in blue! But I'm not here to be Christy Turlington, so I did not go wipe away my beautiful life lines. Also, the "roughing up" of her porcelin skin is a step I likely could have skipped.

My glasses were also a challenge! I tried several things, eventually, the process lessened the glare on my right side, but the left almost looks perfectly clear. 



 If we consider this my "sketch," then for next week's post I will go back in and smooth out the skin first and we can compare the two. 

 

 

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