I just submitted my first assignment to DS106!
It’s a Nickname/Catchphrase poster: “Make a poster for any one of your friends using a catchphrase that is associated with them. Bonus points if you get them to look super badass!”
This is a poster for my suitemate Karen whose nickname on the UMW Women’s rugby team is Karnage. I made this poster in honor of her awesome rugby skillz! (Although she currently can’t play since she broke her leg during a rugby game a month ago :/ )
The Creation Process:
Last semester my suitemate Elena and I were really bored one night and decided to do a crazy photoshoot with our other suitemate Karen (this happens a lot to Karen actually where we make her put on a ridiculously crazy outfit and I take photos). Then after the shoot, I was playing around with the photos in Photoshop and decided to add wings to make her look even cooler.
I decided to add a background to make Karen pop out of the photo because the original background was just a white wall. It looked rather plain just with the black and white and so I decided to make Karen her own poster complete with a catchphrase that makes her seem totally bad-ass.
This debuted as Karen’s profile pic for a while before she decided to change it back to something slightly more professional.
This is awesome, I love this assignment. And the poster you made of karen is remarkably good. She is becoming a kind of larger than life persona for me given how much time and artisitic attention you pa to her. And “The Karnage” —what a nickname!
haha yeah, it’s going to be funny when you finally meet her! 😛
also, not sure what the video assignment is going to be, but I have an idea which involves her once again as the star character 🙂