Facebook Profile Cover

Danielle
“Facebook Profile Cover”
Made in ­­­Photoshop CC
Mar 8, 2016

Technical
For this project, I used all my own original pictures and preset brushes in Photoshop. I took the mandalas I had created during the mandala project and made it look like they were hanging from strings. I did that by using the Single Column Marquee Tool and selecting just that, a single column. I then painted it white with the brush tool. For the background, I used a preset leaf brush and left many different coloured leaves everywhere. I then experimented with the smudge tool and created the multi-coloured background I have. I also added shadows to the mandalas and a small stroke around them so they stand out a bit more.

Idea or Concept
At first I had no idea what to do since I had to use only my original pictures, nothing copyrighted from the internet. I then remembered how I had created multiple mandalas and came up with this.

Influences
I did not have any influences for this piece.

Composition
I feel that the background merges together nicely and doesn't attract too much attention away from the mandalas. For the mandalas, I feel like I placed light one's together with a dark one in the middle, and vice versa. This helps keep the eye moving around the piece.

Motivation
Beyond fulfilling the requirements for this assignment, I wanted to make something cool that I thought of, not something I went searching on the internet for. Of course I'm sure I've seen stuff like this, but this time, I thought of doing it. I wanted to see if my idea of the mandalas hanging from above would look good, and I think it does. I'm surprised how well it turned out as I honestly did not expect it to work. With additional time I would have experimented with more things to see if I could make it even more creative and interesting or see if I could create something else.