So for this project, I thought it would be cute to make a Kiwi living in a Kiwi house. I chose a green door and a green garage because it was the only color that made sense (besides the blue shutters). The story behind the garage is this: I found a picture of the perfect kiwi, but there was another kiwi covering it and I wasn't sure how I was going to get rid of it so I simply just made that part of the house. I thought it was a pretty clever idea(:. The difficult thing with this was that the beach picture that I wanted had a palm tree with a shadow so what I had to do was make a selection out of the actual shadow in the sand and copy/paste it into a different layer so I could warp and mold it on top of the kiwi house. The other difficult thing was making the shadow look legitimate. The garage/baby kiwi obviously looks like it's in front of the house so I had to make another layer of the shadow and move it slightly down. Then I made a few more layers and had that shadow darker inside the door. Overall, this project took me a while. I probably could have made it better if I took more time but I felt like a week and a half was enough for me.
The name of my article is Fab and Famous Magazine as Jenniferella as the cover photo. I don't really know why I named it this, but, if I had to guess, it's because Jennifer is fabulous and Cinderella is famous. Now for the story behind the article names....the ones I thought of were boring ones like "Cinderella's Ball Night" and "Did She Really Make it Back by Midnight?" and I'm pretty sure you wouldn't be hooked if you saw that on a magazine rack. I looked up Cinderella Magazine's on Google and it came up with a lot with so many good article titles. I came up with the Crystal Couture Slippers one though. As you can see, I spelled it wrong on the actual cover, but I left it for the reason that I've seen many magazines with mistakes.
I made Jennifer Lawrence look like Cinderella in this project. I'm actually really proud of this. I think I did a pretty good job with the hair piece and the dress, but I don't like the silver jewelry so much. I picked Jennifer Lawrence and Cinderella because, to be completely honest, I have never had a favorite celebrity until her. I didn't really care about anyone's famous life or who was who, but she's just a really amazing actress and person. She doesn't really care about what anyone spreads about her or if she looks/acts good in front of cameras. She's just herself and I really admire that about her. That's why she's fits in perfectly with this project. It's called the Barbie Project and she can't be a barbie-like figure even if I tried to make her one. She doesn't look or act like one. She doesn't have a pencil thin waist or arms as thin as a book's spine and that's what people like about her (other than her personality).
People are really affected by society these days. You do one thing that you think is right and you're labeled. You do another thing that makes you happy and you're labeled. We have reputations and groups and cliques and things that shouldn't even exist in a place that's supposed to be happy. For example, I can and like to crochet things and I honestly feel that if I sat down and did that with friends, I'd be labeled. Everyone is pressured to do things a certain way for the way people see them. Whether they think it or not, it happens. You go places with people while thinking of the fear that someone is going to call you a loner if you weren't with them. You go to class and make sure that you have at least one friend in there so you can act stupid because you think, if you don't, you'll be called dumb. You don't act your weird self around people because you "know" someone is going to label you a freak. The question itself, "Are you being pressured into being someone you aren't inside," is a stupid one. Of course you are. Whether you're thinking about it or not. I know I am. I don't care if I sit alone at a table because I don't care if someone calls me a loner, but I do care if I have a good relationship with a teacher because someone might call me a teachers pet. I don't mind acting weird in front of friends and strangers because I don't care if someone calls me crazy, but I do care about having friends because I'm scared, if I didn't, then I would be called all the things I don't care being called about and I wouldn't have someone to brag about it to. I don't care if someone calls me names that don't make sense, but I do care if it happens to other people. The actions you take don't label you. The people who see the actions you take are the ones that do the labeling. |