ALIEN CRITERIA
Have one on a space image and one on a white background with a shadow.
The shadow needs to be gaussian blurred and transparent to around 50%
Your alien should have smoothly integrated parts with several patterns incorporated into it.
Edges should be clean, smooth and crisp without random and unwanted artifacts hanging out.
TECH LEARNING GOALS: On this project we have the opportunity to learn:
Basics of Photoshop
How to blend pattern
Use liquify
Work in layers
Burn & Dodge tools
Resize images
Adding a border
Download fonts
Mirror images
Selecting & Masking
Smoothing selections
Healing brush tool & Clone Stamp tool
How to draw
Refine edges
Create shadows.
The above pictures are examples of the Alien assignment. One way to get a feeling of depth is to just make the foreground colors more vibrant and contrasty and add a layer of textured or colored blur behind the foreground layer.