Ok, last sketches for real. The bottom image (dress, clowns) were supposed to be screenprinted. Instead, I just printed it out with the digital part of the image (above, not primary colors). I also did one where I drew and colored the intended-to-be-screenprinted part with prismacolor markers. I think I like the colors of the digitally printed part better.

Anyhow, there you have it!

This was my final sketch. The colors of the children were reduced to the 3 colors of the dress in photoshop so my final image will look a little bit different than what you see here.

I'm pretty pleased with the whole thing, despite not getting to screenprint. I'll probably do that when I'm not sick/have more time. But for now, its all digitally printed. Oh, and I tried one where I hand drew/colored the parts that were meant to be screenprinted.

Yeah!

some more sketches

So heres the original image (left). Aren't they creepy looking???

Anyway, I outlined them in sharpie, then traced their body shapes and drew clown costumes around them. Hats included. I plan to overlap them onto the black and white image (only their faces and hands will come through)

Artist Statement-ohhh it gets ugly

The idea of manipulation can stretch far beyond more than one direction. It's used to trick, disguise, to attract attention or provide entertainment, awe, and criticism. It pokes fun, undermines or enhances, makes pure gold, shining brilliance. When manipulating images from the news, I turned to an activist, satirical state of mind. Here is a piece of information, now I must challenge why it is thought of as "news".

This is where The Duggars come in. They are a peaceful, god-loving (x 1,000) family of 20 - 10 boys and 8 girls, and Michelle and Bob- The source of all these children. They dress modestly, hardly watch TV, are homeschooled, never drink or perform any activities that might hint at unmentionable human desires. However, through all this devout behavior, Michelle and Bob don't know when to stop ... uh ... producing more prisoners to this liftesyle. They have left the growing numbers of children up to God's hand- Will they stop at 18? How far will this go, just because Bob and Michelle don't believe in using birth control? Hmm, seems like these unmentionable desires that God's children shouldn't desire have got the best of Bobby. Why would they have 18 children if he didn't like screwing so much?

And besides all this, which is just annoying, they're on tv promoting this idea that God should decide the course of our lives, which really only means: We don't want to use birth control but still want to fuck, so I guess we'll just have a kid everytime we have sex ... God will be pleased! I'm not a religion hater, though not religious myself, but this disturbs me. Who knows where this kind of thinking can go. Oh, I know: People who believe that that 9/11 occured because there are too many gay people displeasing God, therfore forcing him to punish us with thousands of deaths.

So, with all this disturbing information I cannot let the Duggars get off easy. I've decided to take a family portrait of them and turn it into a circus complete with Bob as the ringmaster, Michelle as the cross-bearing, bearded lady lifting up her overprotective and restricting skirts to let the little Duggar clown children play for a bit.

It's just one big circus to me- the cameras, the wedding of their oldest son at 20 years old. I'm not one to pass judgement usually, but all these things make my heart cry, and the only way to alleviate that pain is to make fun of them in photoshop.

manipulated images whooaaa

1. This is a completely ridiculous example of photo manipulation by Jerico Santander.
2. Michael Phelps seems to be on my mind a lot lately, so I like this image. Nuts. Its by Alberto Seveso, who seems to be very influential with this style.
3. Chris Haines is only 19 years old, and he kicks my ass in photoshop. This is bad ass.
4. Till Nowak created this last photo manipulation. Its hard to tell, but the little dots are satellite dishes overlapping ... kinda like ivy or something.

I like the idea that all these artists took something that was photographed, then added onto them, making fantasy worlds out of something that might not have been so exceptional without manipulation.

manipulated images: found!

The first image is a photograph using a paint with light technique by Michael Bosanko. I like the use of manipulation here to make something appear that was not there before to translate the images' message into something that wouldn't be possible without that element of light graffiti.

The second is nuts ... this girl was made in photoshop and some other 3d modeling software by Viki Yeo. Its completely ridiculous. Photo realism at its finest. I like the use of manipulation here, as it has not been used to manipulate anything existing. The manipulation takes place in the viewers, tricking us into thinking that this thing we're looking out is a photograph.


sweeeet

4 more sketches

So, these are some sketches i did using Photoshop. Since then, I've learned that I am NOT good with this program at all. But I'm trying. I think I'm just impatient...

Anyway, here we have michelle as a pregnant hussy. I'm thinking about giving her a beard so that she'll play the bearded lady in this little Duggar circus (see complete sketch below). We also have Bob, the ringmaster douche of the circus, an example of what a Duggar child might look like as a clown, and then the plan next to him. The parts that are drawn in photoshop will be drawn by hand, as well as the clown costumes that will be worn by the kiddies. We'll see how all this works out ....