February 7, 2011

Today I had a major breakthrough that will allow me to speed up my process and create a much better image. I found out that in a Google image search you can select a specific color from 10 choices. As Google searches through millions of images, the ones with the most pixels of the specified color appear at the top of the search results. This tool will allow me to not specify colors in my text search and just use keywords like fox or watermelon, and then select the respective color I need. I can also toggle between colors using the same search keyword. This has also greatly increased the image library that I will be able to pull from for my piece.

February 3, 2011

I have begun rendering my face with images I have found on Google. I am starting with my lips and will build out from there The main features of my face (mouth, nose, eyes) must be rendered very accurately in order to capture a likeness to me. However, I figure after these are nailed down I can be much more liberal with images I use for the rest of the image. The process is extremely slow and tedious. I am using words like red meat and red pepper as keywords for my image searches. The key to creating the image I have in mind will be to control the blacks and lightest part of the pictures I use, just like in real painting.