PAtty Ho: Copied her right side of the face and pasted it and flip it horizontally and put in place..i used the dodge tool to make the skin tone even out.and for the ripped part on the side i took pieces of the full paper from the top left corner and copy pasted and put in a proper alignment.

Popeye: i copied the right eye and pasted it and used the free tranform tool to rotate it in to the right position.

  

What happens when you paint part of the layer mask…black?…white?…grey?

Black: Fully Transparent

Grey: Half Transparent

White: opaque

this is what i had observed.

What really inspired me was the picture itself…i hadn’t really decided what my story was going to be but when i took a moment to just stare at the picture of the lonely and upset boy..i thought and questioned myself…”why would i be upset ..what can someone say to me that would really hurt?”…and then shazam! loll ..i came up with a brilliant story that had everyone feel sad when they read it.