This was the image I used, my first job was to get rid of the background and try to lighten the image,

While trying to get rid of the background i accidentally used content aware which tries to fill in the selected areas with was it is surrounded by, in this case it was me.

after doing what i said i would do i also tested with the liquidise tool to stretch certain features

Inspired by a mixture of borderlands 2 and tell tale games just for a tester, it looks messy and interesting but i will not continue with this.

I decided to be different and instead of just trying to make myself magazine print-able i decided to become like the stories I write, a monster, in which i put my face on the balloon, though i could only get one of my eyes so i duplicated the same eye and flipped it round, it may not mean i can look in one direction but it certainly is eye catching!

because my comics are in black and white i thought it would be the best idea for myself to be black and white too, the way i did this was to go into image, mode then greyscale before putting it back to RGB, this is so that i can save it properly.

here was my first attempt at the cover, i think the cover itself is great but I needed it to be more extreme and scarier, so I went back to using the liquidiser tool an artist showed me in photoshop

Tested the tool out first, it was fun to use, and made it quite simple to over lap images, I morphed this image with my face.

I decided to mess around with my balloon face and liquidise tool to make it look more monster like and spooky! think I did a good job but if I were to do this again I would take more photos of my expressions so I could test them out!

Jewellery

I have plans of trying to design some jewellery or merchandise linked around the stories i am writing for my fmp, linked by the characters in the story, and seeing how they can be made.

I know from first hand experience that clay is tedious to work with but it can give a wide range of shapes and textures with the right tools, the only health and safety worries would be using the sharper tools such as knives which could cause injury if not careful as well as the use of a kiln, it is very hot and so the use of oven mitts or gloves resistant to heat would be advised when putting the clay into the kiln or taking it out.

For this I would need 3 things;

Clear tape

Double sided tape

My own designs

The only health and safety worries would be the sharp scissors could cause injury as well as tying long hair back so it doesn't get caught in scissors or tape!

I would like to try this out as it seems simple to do however it would not go down the jewellery route i first set out to make

I am also tempted to go back and make more teddy bears like I did did in the passed, however this video only shows heads which could easily be used as door stops or paper weights.

I did enjoy making the teddy bears so I would not mind continuing this instead.