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Ok so we had to make three pictures in photoshop, or collages I should say, all some how related.

I did a fairy tale/ fantasy story type theme. I don't have the other two because I didn't do them yet.


I really feel like this isn't as good as I could have done, the cutting of the watch was literally done last minute and because of that the 'edge' looks horrible on that.

And it looks empty, I think I'll fix it up and possibly re post with the others later but until then this is what I got.



Uh random info:

This is really my first time using photoshop SERIOUSLY for an actual art/ project related thing, the most I've done in it before is draw random doodles and mess with the paint brush.

Uh, Basically everything in this picture was cut out from something, the mirror frame had the be cut, so did alice, so did the backround in the mirror, etc etc. I took the picture of the stop watch. It's mine actually. xO


Woo. So uh, be prepared.




Please tell me what you dislike/would like to see changed etc.

Perhaps with that, I'll be able to improve it when I get the chance to work on it again.

I basically ran out of time to do this, that's why it's not 'clean' in some areas etc.

Overall though this was fun to do. :3


Please post your thoughts, thankyou. :3

certain colors are clashing pretty hard. I have mixed feelings about the bright yellos and blue in the center of all those neutral colors.


And there's the font. sweatdrop heart
it might have been better to chose a red similar to the other red in the picture, the rose i guess.

But i dont know if that will help it.

I DO like the composition though. that's important i think.
Will you be showing us the others in the series?

i think you could have a lot of fun with this, and push the idea a bit farther. i agree that the text is really clashing with the piece, and part of that is from the red color you picked, and the other is the font itself. i think it'd be a lot more fun if you broke up the text and had lines of it skewed in every which way; like have some going diagonally and maybe even changing the color of certain words to get the point across. you could even play with having everything all lowercase or uppercase...or even changing the font for certain words themselves. like maybe alice could be a serif font that's a bit bigger than the rest.

i think another thing you could do is throw in a repeating texture to the piece and change it's layer to overlay to kind of blend everything together. it feels like there's too much contrast and that the different elements don't really mesh well together (kind of like a really bad collage) and throwing a simple texture is a quick way to round out everything and have the different elements have at least something in common.

maybe you could also add a bit of your own flair to it. since you're more familiar with photoshop when it comes to drawing you could always draw the different elements to make them fit better. like a splash of ink or something. or maybe taking the idea of the roses being painted and just have swatches of red paint streaking across the piece. or writing the words 'tick tock' around the watch to give it more of a surreal feel.

you could also feather out the edges of the different things you cut, since it looks a little messy. if you feather out the pixels they'll blend in a lot more easily (instead of having to blur them yourself).

cropping things is also a good thing. instead of having her in the middle, why not make her bigger and have her precariously cropped off falling down on the bottom left? it'll still make it feel like she's falling, and then you could always copy her a few times and lower the opacity on those to show her falling (maybe even put a little bit of motion blur too). you could even bust out your tablet and fudge with her hair to make it longer and have it trail behind her. truthfully i don't think having a centered image works best for alice in wonderland, since the whole premise of the story was that things were pretty crazy and skewed. you could use that to your advantage by rotating things around, maybe even using the transform tool to distort or add perspective to the various objects you cut out.

I have to agree with you there, I just don't care for it. I don't like that the text is in the foreground, it makes it the focus and takes away from the visuals. Art is about pictures, not text.

i think you managed to pullthrough. It's much more decent than the s**t that carrie girl had. not to be mean. ninja