Over the past couple days I have been working on the 'My Shining Body' section of the workbooks. If I think about the one thing I have consistently wanted to change throughout my life it is my body, especially my weight. Even when I was a healthy weight I was never really comfortable with my body, and then I had two kids. I've tried losing weight in the past and like all things that you lose, I found it again, and it brought friends. So starting this part of the workbook was hard. I didn't want to start writing negative things. I know that isn't going to help me and is only going to make me feel worse about it. I also didn't want to put too much creative effort into how I feel now, but preferred to focus more on how I want my body to feel this year.
So this is how my body feels now. I am wearing a potato sack. I made my arms and feet bigger to show I am bigger than I should be. The lines near my shoulders are supposed to represent being dragged down. Feeling heavy. And of course I'm not so happy about it hence the unhappy mouth.
And here is what I drew for how I want to feel this year.
I'm channeling a bit of my Xena/Amazon/Goddess power and I'm wearing high heels!. And I've always had an obsession with gloves although I've never worn any.... and of course the dress is red! The lines in this picture represent me allowing myself to shine, being a light in the darkness or a light that eliminates the dark.
While I'm very happy with the picture how it is, This gave me the perfect opportunity to mess around with Photoshop and revisit some of the things I learned in the Photoshop Tutorial I completed yesterday. Here is what I came up with!
I like how it turned out although I'm thinking as I learn more about Photoshop I could probably do a better job so maybe I will revisit it again in the future. I took some pictures of the process as I added colour and highlights and shadows and more highlights and as I fiddled with the background.
Let me know what you think in the comments below!
Bye for Now!