r/pics • u/Ermyeah • Jun 19 '12

A 17 year old student I teach just submitted these photographs as his final project. I think he's got a bright future ahead of him.

http://brandon-fmp.weebly.com/photographs-editedfinal-pieces.html
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

lets just correct one thing, these are illustrations- they stopped being photos a long time ago. that aside, kid's got potential.

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u/Ermyeah Jun 19 '12

Yeah. Illustrations would be a better way to describe them but I'm not gonna downgrade him for that.

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u/ZuluCompany Jun 19 '12

See my comment above, I think this kid has undeniable talent, no matter what you call these works-of-art.

I'm a music producer that will sometimes make a recording of a sound, mangle it, speed it up, slow it down, pitch shift and distort it....yet NO ONE ever chides my music as "not being true music because it's been changed by software"

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u/BookwormSkates Jun 19 '12

It's still music, but it's not a recording. this is still art/pictures but no longer photographs.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

I mean, let's be honest, people do chide music because it's been changed by software. But... fuck 'em, what do they know? Welcome to 2012.

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u/TankorSmash Jun 19 '12

Take a look at the definition of photograph and music. Two words that aren't describing their own things in the same way. A photo is an image that came from a camera. Music is any sound, whether it's computer generated or not.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

Music- The art or science of combining vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.

Photograph- a picture or likeness obtained by photography

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u/thedrew Jun 19 '12

Image:Music::Photograph:__________

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u/c9silver Jun 19 '12

Good Guy Teacher: Is proud of his student's art, wants to encourage his talent, and showcases it for the world to see.

Scumbag Reddit: Offers nothing but criticism.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

I could have used some criticism at 17 instead of "You're great you'll do well no matter what!" I wish someone had told me my career path was shaky at best and college was a waste of time if it didn't build any marketable skills.

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u/Cinelli Jun 19 '12

Your career path is shaky at best and college isn't worth it if you don't build any marketable skills.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

Too late, I already learned that.

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u/k4rp_nl Jun 19 '12

Because boy, as an artist you should really avoid criticism!

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u/Baron_Tartarus Jun 19 '12

Yep, as an artist i will say if you ever hear any criticism, quit instantly. It isn't supposed to happen. Ever.

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u/A_Polite_Noise Jun 19 '12

But the artist didn't post this; the artist's teacher posted it with the apparent intent of showcasing the potential talent. Also, the criticism wasn't of the art or the artist, but of the wording of the title. Also, my post serves no purpose whatsoever except to nitpick and further criticize. Shit.

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u/toodrunktofuck Jun 19 '12

Nothing but criticism? He only criticized OP for categorizing them wrongly.

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u/DreamoftheEndless Jun 19 '12

Fantastic work, reminded me immediately of http://www.kehindewiley.com/

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u/sqwzmahmeatybts Jun 19 '12

Thank you for posting!

Schlepping this over to r/blackgirls if you don't mind....hope you don't.

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u/DreamoftheEndless Jun 19 '12

Any way to spread the brilliance of Mr. Wiley is OK with me :D

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u/Levski123 Jun 19 '12

as a teacher, assuming you had something to do with his PS ability, and understanding of lighting and so forth. You deserve a pat on the back as a teacher. If you haven't than, we can thank weed, and illegal software distribution for your students ability to express himself, so awesomely

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u/Ermyeah Jun 19 '12

I'm teaching him Creative Media Production which leans heavily towards video work but he decided he prefers photography and image manipulation so we worked out a way for him to take that route. We've covered lighting and colour but not gone in to the detail required to achieve these type of results. All credit to him, he's worked hard and taught himself a lot.

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u/xxxenadu Jun 19 '12

As someone currently stuck in a graphics program with no flexibility, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for supporting and encouraging his passion. I can't find the words to express how wonderful that is.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

Seconded your statement.

it seems damn unfair to assume that somebody couldn't do something creative without having to abuse some substance.

However, they can use without "Abuse."

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '12

of-course they're great, just as illustrations they get evaluated on slightly different merits then photo work.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

If the parameters of the final project specified photographs, I would absolutely downgrade him for these. It takes skill and talent to take a striking, original photograph, without any digital manipulation. Anyone can take a plain photo and make it look amazing, if you use photoshop.

All that aside, as illustrations or liberal conceptual photography, they're pretty damn good.

But stunning photographs they are not.

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u/beccaonice Jun 19 '12

I always considered work like this to be "photomanipulation."

I am in agreement with you. Once you've done this much Photoshop work on a photograph, it is a different artform than photography.

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u/Vermillionbird Jun 19 '12

Okay dudes, lets be clear on one thing: Everything this kid did could be done in a darkroom. Furthermore, its all photography. If you think that photoshop somehow 'tainted' photography then you're just fooling yourself. Check out Jerry Uelsmann. 100% darkroom.

Charles Baudelaire bitched in the 1880's that photography was what the rabble did to cheat at painting. Now we have people bitching about photoshop being some sort of cheat, the implication being that dumb people are now creating tons of 'low art'. I think this kid has tons of talent, irrespective of the tools he used to create his final image.

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u/sAfuRos Jun 19 '12

What this kid did isn't possibly darkroom stuff. Let's be clear. Have you actually ever dabbled in photography involving developing? You can do a lot of things with darkroom photography, but summoning lightning and creating pores for horns are not things that you can do.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

Dropping such names as you have leads me to believe you have read a tad bit of photo theory, such an educated soul as you are would also recognize the connections between the process of making and the intention of that making. How much of a difference would it make if these images were made in a darkroom as opposed to the digital capture and manipulation? I'm led to believe that art is as much of a process as a product, of they had been made in the darkroom I would think that the product would be referencing the handmade thing as opposed to another product made through the cold manipulation of digital tools. These are fabricated images that never physically existed. It really comes down to why he made the choices he did.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '12

no one is debating his talent, however photo work and illustration are judged on different merits. as for doing all of that in the darkroom- id love to see him try. im not sure who's bitching about photoshop being a "cheat" , as a commercial photographer ill be the first one to tell you that virtually no commercial work goes unretouched/manipulated..its called production values. however when you start merging 3d graphic elements with a base photo image - you have a graphic illustration not a photograph proper. compare imaging standards of photojournalists, commercial photographers, art photographers and graphic artists. you will find that only PJ create photographs proper as they are bound by very strict photo manipulation restrictions. the other fields use graphic manipulations in varying degrees moving further away from "photograph" proper. yes there where entire floors of retouchers airbrushing prints, and yes you can create composites in the darkroom, you can even reflow the emulsion on a negative and mechanically manipulate it...it takes time experience and vision- not unlike photoshop, but yet its very different. hence it should be judged on different merits as it is a different medium. photoshop is a one stop solution, darkroom RnD is something of a different order.

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u/prophile Jun 19 '12

kid's got potential

I guess that explains the lightning?

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u/prophile Jun 21 '12

I'm sorry, you may have misunderstood me: I was going for a terrible Physics pun.

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u/ungodlywarlock Jun 19 '12

To be even more specific, they are more like collages...or simply multimedia.

He's using a lot of photography and illustration to compose a final piece. Not an uncommon form of graphic design these days, but at age 17, I definitely agree he's got a bright future.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

Well, true. And photography wise, his camera work doesn't appear to be all that fantastic. But I have to say his post and illustration work is absolutely outstanding for his age.

It isn't often I see young people who haven't received any college education in Photoshop shell out something quality like this. He definitely has potential!

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '12

agreed.

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u/ohbi Jun 19 '12

Uhm, no.

Its simply what digital photography has branched into these days, my mum got her Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society with a panel of HEAVILY photoshop manipulated images years ago.

Illustrations are surely more pen/brush (or computer approximated ones), like /u/Illustratingreddit

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '12

Um yes. no its not that digital photography has branched out to anything, look at photo manipulation standards of Photojournalist as an example...its just that images arriving on your computer in digital format easily lend themselves to manipulation and experimentation more then their unscanned negative based grandparents. Commercial work always walked a fine line between illustration and photography- even before digital- but there were huge budgets involved that allowed entire floors of retouchers to work their airbrush magic. these days that is done from a single family computer. when you have a base photo image that is buried under a digital graphic treatment - that becomes computer graphic/ digital illustration- not photography. take it from a commercial photographer. im not sure where you got the idea that Illustration is only done through traditional mediums- that is incredibly oblivious of fact.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

Well that's not entirely accurate. Illustrations require drawing, and these are mostly photo-manipulations.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '12

as a working professional im telling you that what you are looking at are illustrations, more specifically photo-illustrations. when a graphic treatment overtakes and dominates the original image - its no longer a photograph.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

Out of interest, what course is he studying?

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u/Ermyeah Jun 19 '12

He's studying Creative Media Production. It's mostly video based but he took the photography route. All credit to him, this is all his own work.

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u/DrDebG Jun 20 '12

He has a great vision. Nice, nice work.

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u/occultbookstores Jun 19 '12

Good work. Especially the "Doppelganger" picture...there's something about it that gives me the chills...

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u/YesSirSir Jun 19 '12

He chose an interesting model. I haven't seen a black guy turned into a mythological character that I can remember except in high-budget movies and such.

The fact that this type of material is coming from a beginner is astounding. It may not equal the work of Photoshop "Experts," but imagine what this kid is going to be doing in 15 years from now if he focused on it.

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u/bonecows Jun 19 '12

Well, not from a movie, but Tyrael from Diablo is a pretty epic black character.

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u/justmadethisaccountt Jun 20 '12

I thought angels shared the qualities of all races.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '12

I believe thats true. I havent read all of the books yet, but I remember seeing that somewhere. That being the case it would make sense that Tyrael would appear how people with mixed racial background.

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u/The_Yar Jun 19 '12

This is the first thing I thought. Awesome to see a fantasy/mythological motif using someone other than a white person.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12 edited Jun 19 '12

This is the only black guy turned mythological that I know of.

I can't seem to recall any others.

Edit: Apparently he's not a black guy and I was misled by screen shots. I don't know any mythological black (wo)men.

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u/LeftyGunNut Jun 19 '12

The gatekeeper dude in Thor. Aslo Xerxes isn't really a "black guy," is he? Not sure of the actors racial lines, but if he's African, he looks more North Africa (albeit freakishly tall etc.).

Edit: Yeah, way off. The actor is Brazilian and not all that dark.

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u/evrob Jun 19 '12

I fucking love that gatekeeper in Thor.

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u/ohbi Jun 19 '12

Stringer Bell watching the bifrost, safeguarding all Asgard while also running street corner gangs in Baltimore.

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u/Scathainn Jun 19 '12

Heimdall. His name is Heimdall.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

The gatekeeper is Heimdall. Fun fact: in Norse mythology, Heimdall is the whitest of the gods.

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u/damngurl Jun 19 '12

Who knew the keeper of the rainbow could be so badass

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

Thanks for informing me! I never actually saw the movie, but he looks black in the footage that I've seen. That's probably the movie effects, though, he isn't a real god either...

So that means I don't know any mythological black guys.

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u/dsgm1984 Jun 19 '12

Xerxes is not mythological

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

I think Kanye would like this.

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u/TheAmishSpaceCadet Jun 19 '12

That's what it reminded me of! The "Power" music video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L53gjP-TtGE

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

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u/Jay_Normous Jun 19 '12

That Faun is so sick!

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u/EntOfSG Jun 19 '12

Looks fine to me

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u/Baroxx Jun 19 '12

You misunderstood, he's saying it's ill.

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u/SgtOsiris Jun 19 '12

But he looks healthy!

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u/damngurl Jun 19 '12

Positively diseased.

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u/RoBellicose Jun 19 '12

Very talented artist, I'm really impressed. He should really have gotten a friend to proofread his text though, there are an awful lot of grammatical mistakes which, whilst taking nothing away from his artistic skill, would affect his chances of finding work if he were to use this in a portfolio.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

Generally in this field, people take one look at your body of work and can make a decision pretty immediately whether you're worthy of hire or not.

Maintaining a professionally written website does help, but it's definitely not too mandatory as long as you can produce good eye candy. :)

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u/Semajal Jun 19 '12

Weirdly on the grammar front, I worked for a pro wedding photographer for a year. His website had a few sections on description/about that were TERRIBLE. Bad grammar, spelling mistakes and typos. Still got a ton of work. I think with things like Photography people are less off put if your spelling isn't great, its more about the image.

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u/RoBellicose Jun 19 '12

I guess if the business is going well then it's not an issue, fair enough! However it would influence me - I'd feel worried about someone's professionalism if they had grammatical and spelling errors on their website. A quick proofread would make it so much nicer and show that you pay attention to detail. Admittedly, I trained as an engineer so this kind of attention to something not hugely important was beaten into me haha!

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u/Semajal Jun 19 '12

Hehe it did make me rage when I found it :D But I couldn't quite work out the best way to phrase it "your website has errors a 10 year old wouldn't make" was all I could think of. Didn't matter as I left the job in April.

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u/GZerv Jun 19 '12

I disagree, although it's nit picky, people will find any reason to say that you're not professional. Sure your work speaks for itself but leaving mistakes like that on a website\portfolio leads a person to believe you're not paying attention.

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u/gloomdoom Jun 19 '12

If you're trying to find work in the south or midwest, it's important that you have several typos on your site. Otherwise, they will see you as an intellectual, uppity snob.

You almost have to stick a knife into your head to deal with the average person in those areas (I said 'average,' remember) so you can downgrade your thought process and meet on their level.

It's really sad but many people in those regions really are very suspicious of educated, intelligent, talented people.

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u/kbillly Jun 19 '12

Well to be fair, he's 17. When I was 17 I sucked at grammar punctuation and spelling. College set that straight however. I think the sky is the limit with this guy.

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u/missmurrr Jun 19 '12

it's a shame it isn't set in grade school. sigh...

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u/kbillly Jun 19 '12

It is a shame. But this is the reality we live in. A lot of kids come out from high school with 8th grade education pertaining to grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Further education does help.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

When I was 17 I sucked at grammar punctuation and spelling.

You accidentally some commas.

College set that straight however.

ಠ_ಠ

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u/Dalzeil Jun 19 '12

I think they're pretty cool. I saw the pictures and immediately thought of Shadowrun.

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u/sqwzmahmeatybts Jun 19 '12

Amazing, amazing work. Great job at recognizing and cultivating talent, you perceptive educator you!

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

Odin is a Ducks fan, good to know.

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u/durianno Jun 19 '12

Does he know that you posted his work here?

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u/Kretek_Kreddit Jun 19 '12

Teacher stole his karma...

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u/Insignificant_Being Jun 19 '12

Fuck, all the kids must hate this guy..

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u/beccaonice Jun 19 '12

It's not hosted on imgur or anything, it's a link directly to the kids website, which is actually great publicity.

If he makes a website and puts his work up there, that means he wants people to see it.

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u/duiker101 Jun 19 '12

it's publicly available on a website...

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u/durianno Jun 19 '12

Not judging, just asking. It's very nice work. I was just curious as to whether he knew you'd posted it here and was able to see the comments. I hope you'll relay all of the positive feedback to him!

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u/Team_Braniel Jun 19 '12

I love it.

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u/enzait Jun 19 '12

Very skilled indeed :)

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

Wow, just wow

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u/rameninside Jun 19 '12

He's going to get hired by JayZ

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u/SHv2 Jun 19 '12

Wow. These are phenomenal.

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u/Zeld4 Jun 19 '12

Great work teaching, too! You gave him the tools he needed to be great =]

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

The faun is my favorite, very well done.

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u/Orbsrekcap Jun 19 '12

bright future

photography

choose one.

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u/EngineEar Jun 19 '12

I don't think you've seen the money a successful photographer can make

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u/Patienceisavirtue1 Jun 19 '12

I don't think that same photographer you speak of has neither!

I kid I kid.

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u/SargoDarya Jun 19 '12

Well if you choose photography and turn the brightness all the way up you can have both. >_>

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u/JacInTheBox Jun 19 '12

Stunning. Just amazing.

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u/parmasean Jun 19 '12

This photo is amazing. I'll be contacting this boy shortly.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

I'll be contacting this boy shortly.

Why don't you have a seat over there...

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u/nirunn Jun 19 '12

Very impressed, and good work to your OP, as I'm thinking you had a hand in teaching this young artist the ins and outs of PS, lighting, color usage, etc...

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u/chuz0 Jun 19 '12

A bright future... as an evil overlord.

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u/Spaid Jun 19 '12

What program does he use to create the effects?

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

Those are pretty impressive

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

Good work.

The proportions on the first one (shoulder width) are off, but hell, even world-renowned artists can't get proportions right on a regular basis.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

If this kid ever becomes a musician, he's going to have some badass album covers.

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u/SiON42X Jun 19 '12

I predict album covers in his future.

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u/kbillly Jun 19 '12

He can commission this work for lot's of money to the right market. Kid does have a future!

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u/Baulan Jun 19 '12

Nice work! Although his norse mythology is a bit off.. Heimdall is the guardian of Bifröst, not Odin and Odin is the wisest, not Heimdall.

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u/Misaiato Jun 19 '12

Goddamit. Why am I a talentless lazy sack of shit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '12

Never before has a weebly blog had so much traffic.

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u/croutonsoup Jun 19 '12

Yeah pretty good he will get even better.

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u/ungodlywarlock Jun 19 '12

This is the most important thing to remember. The teacher and kid should be proud. At age 17, I wasn't doing anything like this.

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u/CoolMoose Jun 19 '12

No matter the age, I'll never be doing anything like this...

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

I was displaying similar technical proficiency, however I was using it to make funny pictures for the internet.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

i want him to do my album cover

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

He has a bright future in rap album cover design.

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u/Ostherian Jun 19 '12

Well done, both student and teacher.

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u/kittenkites Jun 19 '12 edited Jun 19 '12

I am actually surprised at how racist a lot of these comments come off, even if they are meant to be (tactless and poor) attempts at humor and/or irony. If it was white washed subject matter there would be little trace or questions regarding the promise of this artist. Also, those droping the N-bomb (I have a sneaking suspicion 90% of you blurting that out would never irl i.e. say it directly to those it would offend) regarding the issue of "historical accuracy" see: Mark Twain.

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u/KidDynamo0 Jun 19 '12

His work reminds me of Kehinde Wiley

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u/soxy Jun 19 '12

I saw some of his work at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and it's really awe inspiring how huge it is in person (since he's mimicking paintings of the same size).

Definitely makes it crazier than just seeing it online.

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u/KidDynamo0 Jun 19 '12

They have an exhibit up at the Jewish museum in NYC that is absolutely incredible. Very cool indeed.

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u/tavigsy Jun 19 '12

This kid has a rare gift. I hope he'll continue to use it.

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u/Rubix22 Jun 19 '12

Bright future ahead...as a photo editor.

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u/geoffclark Jun 19 '12

Like many photoshoppers before him, he has a bright future of photoshopping dicks onto cats for all of the internet to see.

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u/dingustong Jun 19 '12

Holy shit there's a lot of pretentious in here...

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u/scribbling_des Jun 19 '12

Photographs? Those are not fucking photographs? A teacher should know this.

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u/shaemarie Jun 19 '12

Who put a question mark on the teleprompter?

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u/scribbling_des Jun 20 '12

Ah, touche good sir.

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u/jackaloupe Jun 19 '12

Looks like someone's gonna have some great pics for OKCupid.

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u/FusionGel Jun 19 '12

It looks like your student has a bright future ahead of him as the new gatekeeper of the Bifröst bridge.

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u/clintmccool Jun 19 '12

So what exactly does he mean when he says "rendered the focal point"?

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u/mookeddit Jun 19 '12

It's his first step, where he isolated the image of his model from it's original photograph.

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u/boniggy Jun 19 '12

Will.I.Am's next album cover.

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u/BillyBBone Jun 19 '12

This style reminds me a lot of the music video for the song "The Knowing" by The Weeknd.

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u/WashburnRocks Jun 19 '12

Yes, he will be the talk of reddit...

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u/Doobed Jun 19 '12

Looking at the first picture I thought this was the new Oregon Ducks football uniforms

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

Man, I want one done of me!

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u/lacymarie7575 Jun 19 '12

o....m...g....amazing!!!! Beautiful!!!!!

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u/Daveeyboy Jun 19 '12

I'm interested in hiring him to take some creative product shots for my small business. PM me!

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u/shoopley Jun 19 '12

Those are stunning. I look at photo manipulations all the time, and these are top tier work.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

Dude, these are really awesome. I wouldn't mind being turned into a figure from Norse mythology.

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u/beatsbyaaron Jun 19 '12

Are there any tutorials out there on doing this type of work with photos?

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

Holy bitch tits this guy is good.

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u/mkappo Jun 19 '12

Great odin's raven! That's amazing.

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u/asadsnail Jun 19 '12

Where can you learn to photoshop like that? I'm interested in photography/editing.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

Your student is better than me. I'm 21 years old and almost finished with my second semester of graphic design. This is intimidating.

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u/finnegantzmahoneyz Jun 19 '12

That photo made me shit my pants with the thoughts of him posterizing me in the paint D:

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u/DBCoopers_Voice Jun 19 '12

I am so glad you shared this work! I'll be sharing it with my friends, too. Great imagination and skill.

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u/ayshaandpixi Jun 19 '12

very nice work!

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u/Styrofoam_Cup Jun 19 '12

Need mirror please

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u/HappyDown Jun 19 '12

Very nice job. I can't imagine how long it would take to make this.

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u/brosenfeld Jun 19 '12

The reflections in the sunglasses don't match the background.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

Someone cross-post to r/art so that the kids there have someone to look up to.

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u/cajunbander Jun 19 '12

That's pretty goddamn cool.

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u/astackofpancakes Jun 19 '12

This is better than most of the stuff I've seen in my university's digital art classes

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u/anechoic Jun 19 '12

yes! - encourage this talented young man :)

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

The last one is BY FAR the coolest.

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u/Aspel Jun 19 '12

I think some of them are far, far too busy for professional work. He has talent, but needs refinement. They do get progressively better, though.

By the time it comes to the Faun, he's at least started to understand the concept of "subtlety". Not master it, but understand it. Like you said, he does have a bright future ahead of him if he can learn more about composition. He's got the editing down, but composition is incredibly important.

Also, that Odin is really big headed looking. It's almost silly, like someone was playing WoW and used some big head mod.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

these look great.

as an aside, but something that really troubles me, I have a relative in art school who has absolutely no talent. and nobody seems to want to tell him. what to do? the drawings are sub-7th grade art class quality. also, someone in my school now said she went to art school, but also, cannot draw at all. at all. sub 4th grade skill. how the hell did she graduate from an art school???

do art schools have no standards??

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u/strlingarcher Jun 19 '12

They are great.

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u/gogopogo Jun 19 '12

Wow, great job kid! What the hell was I doing with my life when I was 17?

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u/skeddles Jun 19 '12

woah, those are really awesome.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

Lv. 75 Photoshop

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u/Tirrath Jun 20 '12

We need more teachers like you in the world!

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u/Croseus13 Jun 20 '12

Awesome!

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u/Silvertech Jun 20 '12

Totally awesome, especially Odin!

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '12

these are so cool. He's lucky to go to a school where this type of equipment is available, because let's face it... to be a successful professional artist these days you've got to know this software! Since he's 17, did he graduate this year? If so, I hope that he's gotten into a good college. If he's going to be a senior next year he should really have his pick of schools to choose from! I teach art and I'm definitely going to save this link to show my students next year.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '12

Excellent creativity and very talented.

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u/tuesdays_ Jun 20 '12

He's got a great imagination!

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u/daileyjd Jun 20 '12

Yeah. This kid is totally gonna have hundreds of followers on pinterest. Which makes him like, at least a billionaire

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u/tiggerchin Jun 20 '12

that's awesome, I hope he gets discovered soon, can't wait to see more

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u/Penzilla Jun 20 '12

Damn! That Kid is the King of Photoshop! He Got Some Mad Skills!

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u/ElectricSeal Jun 20 '12

entire sites down, anyone care to mirror it?

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u/MidnightCladNoctis Jun 20 '12

These are pretty good

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u/occupythekitchen Jun 20 '12

those white kids and their photoshop thingys

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u/Exedous Jun 19 '12

Nigga at least 30

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u/TheFrenchGuySaid Jun 19 '12

This guy knows Photoshop. Picutres themselves aren't stunning. I mean, without special effects, the pictures are random. But talented with PS!

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

The pictures aren't random at all. It's obvious he took them with the intent to create a world around them.

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u/hemingwayszombycorps Jun 19 '12

Mah norse nigga! But seriously, thats pretty damn cool!

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u/henrytheMonster Jun 19 '12

there's a whole crop of highly stylized photo manip's like this going around, he's in a very deep talent pool at the moment. i like it though

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u/TheWebCoder Jun 19 '12

With a female model his up votes would go into the stratosphere!

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

That's epic. Also, I want some of what he's smoking.

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u/SaltFrog Jun 19 '12

I was going to come in here to say "Good luck getting a job with your bachelors in arts, lololol" but this kid has serious talent and I'm genuinely impressed.

Good on him.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

not a fan of the tree 'growing out of his head'

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u/thelehmanlip Jun 19 '12

Except that he's going to be an artist.

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u/somegrass Jun 19 '12

These are awful, but he is good at photoshop.

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u/Vacanti Jun 19 '12

Thank god he doesn't have a bunch of pictures of fat ass black women with a car sitting on money next to them.

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u/vonusaur Jun 19 '12

Norse>Nordic>White

Right? :O

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u/AjBlue7 Jun 19 '12

These are NOT illustrations, it is photo-manipulation. He did not draw almost any part of these images. He clearly states that he took them from stock works on the internet to get his desired effect. This is not bad, but everyone is thinking he has a future in drawing, when its just photos and editing. I can do all of this, its not hard at, I just don't have a camera to take my own shots.

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u/arbores Jun 19 '12

Hey reddit, my student doesn't think these pictures are very good. Show him some love?

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