Make up Tutorial

http://www.worth1000.com/tutorials/161629/make-up

Original 

Step 1: For this tutorial I first selected an image and opened in photoshop.  I chose this image because I wanted an older person with more wrinkles as more of a challenge.  It was difficult to make some adjustments because of how small the image was if I had to do this again I would of chose a larger image.

Step 2

Step 2: For this step I followed the instructions to press the Q key, then select Brush tool, usually round, with 0% hardness and desired diameter, depending on the picture. Then start ot draw the face, except the eyes, the nostrils, ears, and mouth.  This step was fairly easy and already made a drastic change to the original image.

Steps 3-6

Steps 3-6: The next steps were easy once I figured out the technical parts of layering and using the brush tool.  I just kept adding new layers for each make-up application and setting it to soft light.  For the eyes I  applied eyeliner with a small black brush.  For the eyeshadow I added an additional layer and used a darker color because anything light wouldn't show up.  This step was very similar to applying real make-up and I had to erase a few times.  For the lips I wanted a subtle change and just added another layer with soft light and decreased the opacity to make it look more realistic.  I used to different shades of pink and colored in the lips.  I then went to menu-filter-blur-gaussian tool.  I did this after each layer for a final touch.   

Steps 7-8

Step 7-8: For the next final steps I whitened the "T" zones and applied make-up to the cheekbones.  To do this I added another layer and started with the whitening of the "T" zones first.  I softened the layer and decreased the opacity first then selected a hard brush.  After I had the right size brush I chose a bright white and colored in the forehead, nose, under the lip, chin and cheeks.  Then I went to filter-blur-gaussian tool and increased the pixels to soften the white.  The next step is similar to whitening but instead its to highlight the cheekbones.  To do this I added a new layer and selected a hard brush.  After selecting the brush I chose a deep black and highlighted the cheekbones.  Then I went to filter-blur-gaussian tool and decreased the opacity.  This gave a bronze look to the cheekbones.

Step 9: This was the final step.  I went to menu-image-adjustments-color balance and increased the cyan blue to +18 and decreased the red to -15.  This was the final touch.  

Before

After

 As far as difficulties I ran into I found it hard to make some adjustments because of how small the image was if I had to do this again I would of chose a larger image.

Matthew Ritchie

Matthew Ritchie's installations of painting, wall drawings, light boxes, sculpture, and projections are investigations of the idea of information; explored through science, architecture, history and the dynamics of culture, defined equally by their range and their lyrical visual language.

                                    "The Universal Cell" Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 2005

                                     "The Universal Cell" Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2005

Matthew Ritchie's work takes a basic line and takes it farther in meaning, in space, and in motion. He is a lover of layers, both literal and conceptual. His art goes back and forth between computer generation and hand execution: Imagery is drawn, scanned, projected, traced, scanned again, and printed and animated in myriad ways. The large framed canvases build up layers of different mark making: stains, drips, loops, and squiggles that constantly play off the macro and microcosmic.

"Universal cell" represents how Ritchie uses animated imagery by  incorporating the computer into his work.  The denotation of "Universal cell" is a cell that was created as a module (a small piece of many drawings) using the computer.  The connotation of a cell being portrayed as a representation of how small we are in the universe.  This piece was created using several different drawings and the sculpture is only a small fraction of the image as a whole.  Ritchie wanted to sustain the drawing.  The structure built is a cell conveying how society imprisons us each individually.  We are locked in to a point of view; we build prisons.  If we do one bad thing, we go to jail.  Every crime has the same punishment.  The context of information we gain defines everything.  "Universal cell" characterizes everyone in their own prison and captures our biology, life, and social structure; both of which are challenges and opportunities.

Matthew Ritchie, Proposition Player, 2003, powder-coated aluminum, Minicel foam, rubber, adhesive, electronic components, one pair cast resin dice, custom-designed deck of cards, 42 by 42 by 98 inches

"Proposition Player" is an example of interactive art which is creating art using drawn imagery and the computer.  The denotation of this is five playing cards: Four aces and one joker.  The connotation of  the story being told in this fantasy world can be understood on a number of levels. For one, it recounts a scientific narrative of origins: the history of the universe from the Big Bang to the present. Ritchie also describes this history as a metaphor for the construction of art. He has, further, characterized his work as pictures of thinking.  The paintings most directly seem to depict consciousness itself. In the landscape of "Proposition Player,"contradictory ideas about the world appear and overlap on the same plane just as they often do in our minds. Scientific symbols are graphed alongside phrases from gambling and pictures from the tarot; human figures stand immersed in a murky atmosphere that could denote weather systems, technology or religious beliefs. The result depicts contemporary society less so than our condition of living in it. It represents the mental nude.

Ritchie's installations fuse unique narrative forms with our constantly changing factual understanding of our universe.

http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/ritchie/
http://www.artnet.com/artist/14305/matthew-ritchie.html
http://current.com/groups/culture/89742966_the-art-of-matt-ritchie.htm