My motivation for this assignment came after reading that we should make a “character or thing”. I knew I wanted to create a real person in box form and Lenny Kravitz is such a character already, I knew he would be perfect. I really love Lenny Kravitz. I love his style, attitude, music and everything else about the man. He also has many unique things about him that I thought would make a really cool cube character. He has tattoos everywhere, pierced ears and nose and nipples, unique clothing, crazy hair, and fun sunglasses in most of his pictures. I took time to find the perfect pictures to use for his face, body, arms and ears. Even the tattoos on his arms are his real tattoos, as well as the ears I used. I knew I would have a lot more fun making a real person as opposed to drawing out some random thing. When I actually printed out the template and put the toy together I could not stop laughing at how ridiculous it was to see Lenny Kravitz as a cube person. I think this class is way too much fun! ;)
I used the eyedropper so much in this assignment! I actually use it quite often when creating in Photoshop. It is a great tool to help make everything flow together and look appealing to the eye. I use it to keep every shade within the same colour range and also to use exact colours over and over again. Lenny Kravitz is known for his outrageous clothing so I decided to give him purple pants. I actually sampled the purple colour from the purple in his sunglasses. The flat colour I used for the majority of his body and sides of his head was a sample from his actual skin colour in the picture of his body. The picture I had of his ear was in black and white so I had to change it to colour using the sample of his skin colour. His beard flat colour was sampled from his actual beard in the picture also.
My approach to creating Lenny was to start with a game plan! I figured everything out in my head and got all the pictures before I ever started the project. It was tricky to figure out a way to make a picture of a round head and body look decent in cube form. I started with his head and worked my way down. I think my approach of figuring it all out ahead of time really worked because it is definitely a bit of a challenge to imagine how everything will look once the cube is made. The template is so upside down and backwards it isn’t easy to envision it. I knew after all that work I was not going to leave it in template form. I was excited to make the actual cubed Lenny and it turned out way cooler once it was real!
*Below are the images of my actual cube, the template and the photos i used from the internet to create my cube Lenny.
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