Photo Manipulation?

Some manip. I made yesterday and today. What do you think of them?

Watching : True Blood.

Nature Photoshoot

I spend A week at my granparent’s in El Cercado, San Juan, Dominican Republic, and I went to my other granfather’s (they live like 20 min from each other) and while I was there my family and I decided to go to a river. I found pretty good things to take photos of, so here they are (click images for bigger size on my dA account):

Twilight Notebooks

I bought some notebooks, actually 9, cause I need them for school and the only ones I found had some weird design in the cover so after hours of thinking what to do  with them I decided to make the cover myself. I wanted to make them Twilight related (I don’t care if you think I’m a psycho or if I’m obssed with it) so I went to the store bought some cardboard and glue and acrylic paint. I spent hoooourrrrsss painting, folding cardboard and cutting and still I have to make I think is 4 or 3 more >.< so yeah, photos of the ones I made so far:

Listening to: That’s what you Get – Paramore

Murderer’s personal agenda.

One day I was infront of my computer and I was desperatly wondering what to do, so I have no idea why I decided to take a piece of paper and writte on it a ”Note to self”. It only started with the note and after I saw that the photo looks kind of boring I have an imagination rush and I said to myself: ”I should make this a killer note or a murderer” so I went to the kitchen grab a knife and put it in the photo. I wanted blood so I grab some ketchup and used it as blood (Epic fail). It looks awful! Like some kind of I don’t know it just don’t look like blood at all.

After I saw this horrible result, I remembered that I have some acrilic crimson tube that looks more thatn blood thatn ketchup (anything looks better than ketchup as blood) and used some to make the blood effect. I was ok with the photo but I just isn’t enough. After wondering what to do I put the knife again and put some of the paint on it as well as in the umm background, not really background but the ground and over the note.

So in my last try I just let my hand play with the photo. I started putting my hand under the knife, beside it, above, or just as a part of the background, I got a lot of photos with the hand but, as always, I just pick a couple of them. After deciding what should I post, I tittled it: ”Murderer’s personal agenda” because when I first thought of the idea of some killer that just murder a woman or a couple in which the woman cheats on her husband and he finds out and decided that he was going to do something for revange, so one day he woke up and saw his wife laying on the bed by his side and he thought: ”It’s time” so just simpy he took a knife and murder his wife.

– Melissa M.

Listening to:  Figure.09 – Linkin Park

Got Shades?

”It’s edward with the sexy shades” – Spider Monkeys

This is how it goes: I was in my brother’s bedroom (as usual) and I saw some sunglasses that I like so after weeks of I-don’t-know-what-to-do I decide to make a little sunglasses photoshoot with themes I feel like they match the sunglasses. I’ve took so far two photos one (Left)  is a beach theme with shells and

rocks and a palm in the back, the things that makes you chiiiillll. The other one (right) is one of my favorite pair of glasses, black sunglasses with a Ray-Ban wayfarer style, it’s like a night out should I say? or something like that with cocacola keychain and popcorn and all the stuff.

My next photo I think will have diamonds and sparkle and those sort of thinks but I’m thinking about the background. I don’t know is it should be black or white, I prefer black though. So if you have any idea or theme I should do let me now in a comment, or let me know what you think about the photos in general.

Melissa M.

Watching: The Simpsons

The Vampire Diaries

My latest book addicting is: The Vampire Diaries series. so this is how it goes:

During the time of the Italian Renaissance, brothers, Damon and Stefan Salvatore fell in love with a beautiful young vampire named Katherine. Though Katherine’s heart was big enough for both brothers, each of them vied to make her his own. The battle for Katherine’s affection led to her eventually death, and left the two boys immortal, heartbroken, and

forever quarreling.

Centuries later, Damon and Stefan are destined to repeat the betrayal that led to their vampirism. They descend on the small town of Fell’s Church, Virginia, where their paths cross with Elena Gilbert, a beautiful and popular high school student who bears a striking resemblance to Katherine. . . .

So After reading the first 4 books (right now reading the last one published) I decided to draw something realated to it and I saw the front covers of the books and finally draw the Fury and the Dark Reunion cover. I SUUCK at drawing faces and after I finished it I was pretty surp

rise to find out that it didn’t look that bad. I started with the eye, then the eyebrow, the nose and finished the face with the mouth, neck and skin. Today I started the hair and it was a living nigthmare, and finally the tittle of the book (the original cover has the name of the book The Fury and Dark reunion but I didn’t put them in the draw). My favorite part of the draw has to be the eye, I love how it truned out so ! And well that’s it, if you ever feel like reading it well READ it. The CW is actully going to make it a TVserie airing this fall !!  Let me know what you think of the draw in a comment or if you already read the serie what do you think of it.

- Melissa M.

How to Be

”Sometimes we all need a little help” – How to Be Tagline

Hello again. It’s been a while since the last post but here I am. Over these days I’ve been feeling kind of weird and sad and depressed (I don’t know if that’s the right word to describe it but whatever) and I don’t have idea why. It first started when I decided to enter to a contest in deviantArt in wich I have to take a photo of something sweet, cute and stuff like that or draw it or any kind of art. So I send my entry and after I send it I started thinking that my photo actually sucked. I’m always thinking that I can take good photos and bla bla but now I feel like I can’t do anything right, no craft right, no charms right, even no good at all. A living social bummer. Mmm maybe now I understand why I never meet new people after all, I mean who would like to be with such a pessimistic person but whatelse is to do.

My friends said I have to change the way I think cause it does any good to anybody including myself but I don’t really know, I was ok a while ago and know back to the same thing. I just wish I can change the way I am, be more outgoing or social, talk more, be the way I am here. Let my feelings out whenever I want and not be ashame of what others might think of me when I do something I like. The only real thing is that I’ve changed a little, at least I talk a little bit more and sometimes let some feelings out ignoring the fact that people called me antisocial.

So this is it, just be who I am but better, if I can…

- Melissa M.

Listening to:  La Plage – Yann Tiersen

Message in a Bottle

Oh well, I finally found a little bottle (well Emely give it to me but whatever) and I can’t be more glad. I was trying to find these little bottles for too much and yet can’t find a place where to buy them ! But here’s the thing, after I passed all day wondering what to put inside in my soon to be charm I saw my Twilight book (not really the book, a pdf format book) and remembered the Be SAfe note Edward left Bella in her truck. So I grabbed a piece of paper stained it with instant coffee and wrote Be Safe in the same font that is in the book. First I put some escarcha (mm glitter?) in the bottle but then it looked weird so I changed it and put some of the little balls that come in a pack in the shoe boxes for the humidity. Then I made a polymer clay heart and well that’s it. Oh I made a little loop to be able to use it as a charm.

P.S.: mm I don’t have idea why I take a picture of the charm with my hair but I liked it !

- Melissa M.

Self Portrait

- The other day I was wondering “umm what should I do?” ao I saw that my dA ID was really old and that I needed a new one. SO I remembered the time I made a grunge portrait with a exelent tutorial for my art project and said why not doit it with my photo and used it as my new ID and, yes, I did what I say. After a long time of working on it I finished and I came up with this (The photo up there). I used as a reference a photo of myself that I took months ago and I have to say I’m happy of the result (of course it’s not something WOW or else but hey I just use the knowleged of my photoshop experinces). I used several brushes for the hair and the “grunge” effect of the skin and some round brush to the eyebrows, nostril and mouth, oh also the glasses. The background was quite simple just found a simple bloud stock image and put some colors.

-I titled it “Face is not Important” because when I finished it I thought that many people just care too much about looks and don’t really see the person itself. I know the first think you notice about someone is how they look or dress but some people are just too much. Only that matters is how you dress, where do you buy your clothes and I’m personaly not one of those. I don’t really care where people buy clothes or the brand of it. If I like or love something I just get it no matter the brand. So what is your opinion about people that only like someone because of the looks. Leave a comment bellow.

- Melissa M.

El Engaño

Quién pensaría de tí así

Diría que jamás yo fuí

Se termina mi ilusión

Termino yo en el mismo callejón

Sin salida y sin lugar donde ir

Tus defectos y errores han salido a relucir

Acaban mis sueños y mi vida en fin

Pero ya vi quién eras al fin

Ya veo yo cuánto te importé

Al final mira todo lo que aguanté

Aún así lo echas todo a perder

Vaya cosa la que he llegado a ver

Tu mentira y tu engaño

Jamas pensé en llegar a reconocer

Pero lo noto en cada instante

Te agradezco por un momento tan apremiante

Aprender a no confiar mas en el amor

Haciéndolo lucir el peor error

Un cualquiera, uno más en tu vida

Y no te importará ni mi ída

Subirme al cielo

Para caer de golpe al suelo

Vaya engaño que me ha dado la vida

Me has dejado sin ninguna otra salida

Acepta tu vida sin mí

Pues jamás logré hacer un cambio en tí

Puedo ver lo ignorante que fuí

Debí notar el error que cometí.

- Gilberto C.