The False Mirror

Creativity: I think the idea of using a real eye to re-create Magritte’s “the False Mirror” is pretty unique. To be honest when I slid down to where the two pieces are aligned together, I couldn’t tell the difference.
Execution: I am truly amazed by your ability to change the texture of the skin and add shadows here and there. This is very high quality work.
Context: Overall the work is pretty informed. It shows a lot of connections to the artist’s original work, and the original artwork’s style is precisely captured.
Documentation: The documentation is very easy to understand.
Overall I really like this piece! If there is any improvement, I suggest that you increase the portion that the sky takes in the picture. To me the importance of the artwork lies in the sky, so making it bigger might be a good idea.

Creativity: This was a really cool idea! I especially liked how you started from a picture of a real eye, as well as how it turned into something very much resembling an actual painting. Your product was a great reproduction of the original piece, and it's nice to see how two very different creation techniques led to such similar outcomes.
Execution: Your reproduction showed a lot of technical skill and is really appealing to look at. I loved the the brush stroke texture of the eyelids, as it's really hard to tell that it was done in Photoshop. As someone mentioned before, the shadow work was excellent. I was also really impressed by how you took off the eyelashes from the original picture of the eye.
Context: The work is well informed, and you definitely connected a lot of the original artist's style and themes.
Documentation: Great documentation, and I loved the specifics on how you began adding more once you finished taking off the eyelashes and changing the iris. I also really enjoyed reading you step through your Photoshop process as you created this.

Great start to Photoshop. This is visually interesting, and the research, process, and reflection are very well documented. I would like to have seen a bit more of a re-interpretation as opposed to a reproduction. The idea to use the photograph of an eye was great, but whose eye and why?

Hi Almeda,

Thank you for the comment!

My idea to use a real eye photograph came from the artist's style of mixing the reality and illusions. Therefore, it doesn't matter whose eye photo is used. The point was to combine a sky scene as the iris into some real eye photo. However, as I mentioned in the Approach section, it seemed to me that the combination did not create a satisfying effect as the original work did (mostly because of the difference in background shadow I guess). Thus, I repainted my combination and tried to imitate the original artwork to achieve the ideal effect that I want.

Btw, do I need to revise the documentation to reflect this point? Thanks!

Thank you for your clarification. You don't need to change anything, these comments are just to help you on future projects.