Silly Photoshop homework

One of my classes at the art academy is digital techniques. At the moment, we're learning how to use photoshop. Our homework was to take a photo of ourselves and paste our image onto a new background with the help of the masking tool. I've never used the masking tool (this way), so I'm rather proud of the result. I added a shadow for good measure too ^^

Before

I'm at Campzone 2007, watching two members of the staf doing weird poses on the edge of the newly developed ocean:

After

I'm in Australia admiring a beautiful mushroom next to the Bibulmum track when it ran through some dunes:

After 2

I realised the shading on me is from the wrong side, so I mirrored my mini-me and switched her to the other side ot the mushroom.

24-hour comic - When Time stood still...

I did the 24 hour comic challenge last weekend in the comicmuseum in Groningen with a group of comic artists. I had a great time, even though I didn't get to 24 pages (ran out of time at 20)
I'm going to finish the story and ink the pages I had to leave in sketch. I might even colour it all. I'll post (or link to) the new pages on this blog.

self portrait in a window

Hello!
I've started a part time study Graphic Design and I thought it might be fun to show some of the things I've been making for the academy:

The assigment for this one was: "make a self portrait from the reflection in the window. I drew my reflection, but since the light came from behind my face and such can't be seen and instead I saw the tree and parked cars beneath is in my place ^^. I like that part of it. But the rest is too much detail perhaps. I'm planning on making a new one with just a part of the silhouet and only a bit background.

Oh, and I thought the painting looked a bit bland as it is now, so I upped the saturation in the scan to see what it would look like with some more colour:

I think this looks much nicer. Even though no one's guess it's a reflection this way, but that's not so bad.