Saturday, June 13, 2015

Hambone, fishing, and hunting

This is a week I have made and rediscovered some projects.

Up first is my character crush, Hambone.  This is a montage I made months ago at ABC Adult School, but rediscovered only this past week while searching for something for other (and I do wish I could remember just what I was seeking).  Anyway, this shows an interesting, informal battle for cow-milking supremacy between the beauty queen Brandy and the redneck woman Hambone.  To gain milk and other dairy products, the Barefoot family maintains two cows, whose names I've prominently placed in the montage below.  What I did was download an online picture of a dairy farmer who lives in Minnesota, then used an expanded canvas, duplication, and a horizontal flip to make a mirror image.  The faces of Brandy and Hambone then replaced the original ones.  Of course, the line at the top paraphrases the nursery rhyme "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary."


Up next, the pretty childhood face of Hambone's dad Popeye shows up again, this time in a promotional announcement for an event that would take place this coming Saturday on the pond named after the clan engineer, Oliver.  There are literally hundreds of father-son combinations in the extended family, and all are invited to a contest to determine the best pair of fishermen.  (Popeye and Ralph are annual contenders, of course.)  This project was created by combining Photoshop and a preview feature at the online store Shindigz.com.  The store sells fishing-themed invitations for birthday parties.  I used the available text layers and a picture upload to create the preview; however, when I tried to add another graphic I was not allowed to do so.  As a result, the preview had to be saved to my hard drive, then taken to Photoshop for the addition of the footprints I found on the Barefoot Chiropractic & Wellness page.  Those prints were isolated from the frame, colored black, and scaled to fit the circle.



Finally, 'Bone's brother Ralph is the featured character in my second movie poster.  Or more accurately, a "nested character" I created by the name of Buck Hunter.  He's a "superhero" for the outdoors community as big game doesn't stand a chance.  I was inspired by the "Duckmen of Louisiana" videos which are referenced in Duck Dynasty star Willie Robertson's book The Duck Commander Family, in which the hunters have larger-than-life portrayals.  I also wanted to create an old-time feel, and that explains "the star is the character" phrasing.  The bow and arrow set came from a sporting-goods store website.  To the rasterized text, I added two simulated sets of deer tracks.

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