Project Two: Idiom "A Chip On Your Shoulder"

This is the re-worked image after crit on thursday. I made the chip bigger and more rounded on the shoulder. It resembles more of the tattoo suggestion that Erin mentioned and I incorporated my original idea of the chip being a part of the shoulder but on a smaller scale than what I had in mind. I am not completely satisfied with this piece, I feel like it needs more work before I can say it is complete but I can't quite figure out what it needs just yet. For my piece of mind and satisfaction, it is a work in progress.

Best of the Week

This is a snapshot I took of my little brother at the boardwalk. I wanted to just get a portrait of him but he had to throw in his own little twist to it. I like how you can only see one of his eyes and he is directly confronting the viewer with a glare. I worked the image through camera raw to make it less blown out in the highlights and I adjusted the curves and levels in photoshop. I also burned the highlight areas in the wall behind him to keep the focus on his face rather than the background.