This piece was done about a month ago, and is one of the projects I was most fond of. I improperly used a scanner to get the feedback effects found around the edges, and laid over that scanned pieces of a cd case (Portugal. The Man, which was very beautiful to begin with) in layers as well as a sunset from a polaroid picture of mine and a scanned image of an Om pendant. After laying them together I also adjusted the hue and saturation in different areas to increase and decrease emphasis. I really enjoy how this came out.
This was, in essence, my final project for the Electronic Illustration course. For the first component, I sampled portions from an image of an ocelot (it's fur) and human skin. I used and edited these samples using Photoshop to turn them into repeating patterns. I then formed this composition of setting, woman, and ocelot in Photoshop, and used various Transform tools, Displacement filters, Masks, and Retouching tools to apply the patterns to the woman and the cat.
The idea behind the image has to do with the human tendency to put themselves above other living creatures to the point of practically considering them furniture, when in reality we are all animals of the same planet. I chose the opulent background space because I personally have found this attitude to exist more frequently among the wealthy.
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