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so in order to keep up and in with our increasingly technological era, i've been learning Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign. in college, i foolishly saw graphic design as a very black and white thing; maybe i was surrounded by too many people creating their 'artwork' solely through use of filters and clone tools, etc..
i was only familiar with the bare minimum as a tool for creating transparencys for silkscreen, and even then did the majority of my transparencys by hand (including the one's for my thesis- intense. also, will have pictures/info regarding that soon).
anywayys, here's my first attempts at photoshop, kind of a self-portrait. although, besides the hair, the facial features aren't an accurate likeness. but can ya dig?