Digital exquisite corpse.

I decided to create a digital exquisite corpse using photoshop, my own photographs and found imagery. To do this I first collected a series of imagery that I felt would be relevant to my chosen theme. But before I created my workshop outcome I created a piece exploring the techniques I was going to use in order to learn how to use the different tools on photoshop I hadn't used before, the imagery was provided by my lecturer and included found imagery.
After I had created a mock up digital exquisite corpse I started creating my own sample. To do this I first selected which of my own photographs to use in my workshop outcome and changed the image saturation so the image became black and white.

I used the magnetic magic wand tool on Photoshop to select the area I wanted to use in my digital collage. Once I had selected the appropriate areas I then inverted this selection to only select the areas I did not want, I then deleted this selection.
I repeated this with each image I wanted to use in my collage.. Once I had removed all of the unneeded areas and empty space I then copied all if the images onto a separate photoshop document with a watercolour background.
I arranged my imagery in a way that was relevant to my exquisite corpse theme and in some cases I changed the opacity and filters to create unusual textures.
My final image was then group together to merge the layers to create a flat image.
I decided to create two of these digital collages to experiment with the theme of exquisite corpse, my first collage was using an image I had found on the internet of a Chinese style bonnet, I placed this on top of the subjects head. I chose this image as I felt it would work best with my colour scheme due to the pastel shades of blue and pink within the piece.

I felt that the chosen imagery did not appeal to theme of exquisite corpse as well as I would have liked so I decided to remove the bonnet and add two curled horns on top of the head. This would allow me to create a hybrid anthropomorphic form in my collage. Combining animal and human components.