UPDATED: Look Mom! I Got a Tattoo!

          Creating this Photoshop assignment was extremely fun. This was my most confident project and I am very satisfied with the outcome. Creating the tattoo by combining two existing tattoos was very interesting as I had the flexibility to arrange the tattoos any way I wanted to, so this was quite easy. The most difficult part was painting the tattoo because watercolor paint is easy to mess up and my brush did not allow me to be precise, so it ruined the sharpness of the tattoo. But after letting it dry and going over it with a thin sharpie to clean up the lines, I was able to get the result that I wanted.
          The mediums that were used in the program Adobe Photoshop C6 was the move tool, the magic wand, the warp tool, filters, the layer mask and paint tool, the dodge and burn tool as well as the blur tool. The filter was used to remove the white in the tattoo. The move and warp tool was used to place the tattoo on my arm and make the tattoo appear to be more dimensional. The layer mask and paint tool was used to get rid of any of the tattoo background that remained. At lastly, the dodge and burn tool was used to add dimension to the tattoo, so it would seem like it was actually on the skin.
          My strongest aspect of this project was painting the tattoo and arranging it on my arm. I liked the color schemes that I chose for my tattoo, and it made it seem like a genuine watercolor tattoo. I also traced it with a sharpie afterwards, because after conducting research on watercolor tattoos, I learned that black skeletons are needed for watercolor tattoos to last, so I did the same on mine. I also liked the way I sized and warped the tattoo. It did not look awkward or flat on my arm, it was an appropriate size and it looked somewhat real. My weakness in this project was the finishing touches such as utilization of the dodge and burn tool. The finishing touches were difficult to master because I wanted the tattoo to look absolutely real, but there were some errors such as the line in the middle of the tattoo. Overall, If I could do it over again I would do a more drastic tattoo and do a better job at the finishing touches.