♫Low Low Low Low Low Low Low Low , Poly Poly Poly Poly , BATMAN!!!♫

If Bruce be told, this whole low poly project has gone on Wayne too far.. this was mainly because of the numerous times where the computers in the Mac Lab decided they should all chill out with Mr. Freeze, and while they where being fixed, i was Netflix n' Chillin' with Dylan The task was simple, get a picture of a humanoid figure and use the polygonal lasso tool to trace the figure with triangles. the reason i said humanoid figure is because there was one point where i asked if i could use Jar Jar Binks, the worst character ever made, from Star Wars, but i decided to do Ben Affleck's portrayal of Batman from Batman vs. Superman. I decided on Batman because last year in studio art when we had to draw someone, i drew Heath Ledger as the Joker, and felt it wouldn't be right if i didn't give Batman a shot. before i started i made sure to make a copy of the background layer i was working on, so that if i messed up, or wanted to change something, which i did, it would be possible. To make it easier i set up an action with the ever so cool Ms. Turner. what the action did was it applied the filter of "average-blur" which combined all the colours inside of the triangle you drew, into one colour, and then the action copied and pasted the new triangles you made onto separate layers, so not only they would be on the background copy layer, but also their own. i then set a keybind for the action as ⌘G so that i wouldn't need to keep moving my mouse to click "play" on the action after every triangle. To make it look less complex and to make photoshop run faster, i then started to merge the layers every 100 triangles or so. after i finished the triangles, i realised that you couldn't really tell where the batman logo was, because i didnt use small enough triangles. this is where the copy layer came in handy as i was able to erase and delete the logo, and redo it. i was able to copy the original background again, and then merge it with the first background copy in order to fill the big white gap with the image again, so i knew where the triangles went. once i was done with that, i started my fill-in layer. What the fill-in layer was, was a layer you made behind all your shapes, that you would use to fill in all of the gaps created between the triangle. If i didn't have a fill-in layer, there would be random white lines between some triangles and it wouldn't look good. if you want to check out the picture taken by Ms. Turner about halfway through completion, you can find it here

https://www.instagram.com/p/BL9HO9ghUZe/?taken-by=turnersartclass.

it's the one in between the unnecessary not one, not three, but two pictures of Kobe Bryant. Any how, that was my low poly batfleck. stay posted for my next post when i take about ten years off the way Christopher Walken's face.