Zack Smith, Student Work

3D to 2D Image

This illustration is to show just how far you can reach if you just push through the struggles in pain in life and just soar. This builds off the meaning of the Masked Identity project, this illustration shows how when you push through the sadness, pains, and struggles in life, you not only grow as a person, but you become so much stronger and how the sky is the limit. The illustration gives a sense of hope to those who are struggling in their life and encourage them to push past it to gain an inner strength and confidence that will make them soar.

For the process, I first took the original image from my Masked Identity project and took it to photoshop. In photoshop, I used the magnetic lasso tool to select the body, the inverted the selection as to delete the background and hair from the model. I then took the photoshopped image to illustrator, sized and placed it on the background layer, then locked it in place. After that, I started creating the basic shapes of the body and mask. Once I had the basic shapes, I then created shapes to go on top of the basic form that showed where shadows and highlights were on the body. Once all the shapes were in place, I used the eyedropper tool to give the shapes correct coloring. When the body was finished, I deleted the image from the background and was able to add the hair and background and edit as needed.

        

Making the mask from wire, masking tape, tracing paper, gel medium, ink and gold paint.