Happenings: Shrouded Bell Crown

HAPPENINGS: Shrouded Bell Crown

I drew inspiration for this project from Hijabs worn by Muslim women. While my format is a bit different than the typical cultural and religious accessory, I tried to include the covering of the hair and shoulders, additionally including the meshed face mask often seen in Niqabs or Burqas, other forms of Muslim covering. I incorporated sound from the bells, as well as their dangling dimension, which ultimately gave a lot of movement to the piece. This movement paired very well with the movement from the red covering, and the mesh veil added a lot of character, making myself be more so a part of the art than the person wearing it. Finally, the golden marks and the coiled wire at the top of the piece gave a nice aesthetic touch, creating a feel of modest royalty. 

3D to 2D

3D to 2D

For my conversion project, I used a still image from my soap alteration. The color and varying texture made me fascinated at what I could do to change it. I started by taking a wide close-up image of the soap and highlighter blended together.

I then split them into 4 sections and layered them on top of one another in photoshop. I drastically adjusted brightness, contrast, and saturation for each independent layer, rotating them and mixing it up to allow variety. 

Next, I created an outline layer with a white background by drawing black lines to create triangles. All lines attach to other lines so that the entire page is filled with geometric outlines. 

After that, I erased some of the white within a few scattered shapes to allow the layer immediately underneath to show through. After I was satisfied, I merged it down to join the two layers and allow the process to be completed over again. 

I repeated this 4 times, with each layer. Ultimately, the totally merged and completed image came out like this: