Unit 1 section 3

Source Images
3.2.1

This image I found on google, Then I selected the man with the quick selection tool, then flipped him.

Here I found an image of a spray can on google, then used the magic wand to selected the background and deleted it. Then dragged it into my image.

Here im flipping the image once it was selected.

This is what it looks like once I put it onto my image. Then I had to make it look like a stencil on a wall, so I followed the instructions on this website below:

http://www.melissaevans.com/tutorials/stencil-art-creating-stencils-with-photoshop

After I applied this I then made a copy of that layer and change the opacity of the layer below it. Then took the brush tool with a low opacity and started making parts more see through than others making it look more real against the wall. Then took the blur tool to blur certain area's to also make it look a little more real.

3.2.2

Here is my final result. I decided to change the soldier because I didn't think you could tell what the original one was, so I went for this image because I was able to put a spray can into his hand to make the image more  realistic. I also added a cast shadow of the sign to make the image look more real.

2.2.4 -Health and safety 


I worked safely because we took regular breaks every couple hours, where we would have something to eat and drink, also walk around. Our computer screens are not in the way of windows so are eyes don't get affected by the light. Our chairs are adjustable so we don't get back aches. Our screens can move to are liking and be adjusted. As well as the brightness and resolution. Also our screens are touch screen, so we don't have to use the mouse in case of RSI in the wrist. were not allowed to drink near the computers so we cant get an electric shock or damage the equipment. Bags are kept under the tables so we don't trip over.

http://www.learninglink.ac.uk/keepfit/index.htm
Link to a Health and Safety quiz which I took.

3.1.1- Time Plan

Research 4 digital artists and analysis
12/09/11-

Nico Di Mattia

Adolfo Correa

David Fuhrer

Miss-Valence

Ideas and concepts:

13/09/11

Create 3 ideas, thumbnail sketches of ideas.

Present ideas and concepts:

14/09/11 – 20/09/11

Present our ideas in groups, get feedback from people and make changes.

Experimentation:

14/09/11 – 27/09/11

Experiment in photoshop using different tools. Show using screenshots how you used these tools.

Print final output:

27/09/11

3.1.2

Here is my layers development, showing all the layers i've used and what orders i've had to put them in  to make my image look right.

3.3.1- Evaluate the creative process

I think the creative process went ok, I struggled to think of a third thumbnail because I figured out what I wanted to do when I drew the second thumbnail. I think the development of this idea went pretty well as well, I got good feedback from other pupils which I took there advice onto my work to make it look better.




3.3.2- Craft making process


The craft making process went well i think. There was a certain part where i just had to play around with one of the images to make it look right, also I changed the image in the end because the new one was easier to make out what it was. In the process of all of this, I had to experiment with certain tools like the eraser and brush tools using different brushes, also playing around with the layers to get everything in the right place.

3.3.3- Action plans for future development


I think if I was to do this image again, I would try to make look a lot more real. Because I spent a long time trying to figure out how to make this image real and I still don't think it looks real enough. I think maybe if i was to do it again, I would maybe have an image of a whole street with some people in it maybe, and then have the painting on a wall with some people looking at it. I think this would look a lot better because you would be able to see the surrounding area and maybe cars, and people in the image so it would look more real. Also I think the message of my image is still hard for people to see what it is, so maybe if  I did this again I would put the words 'peace' onto the wall as well, under the peace symbol, or behind the army man stencil to make it look like he was already painted it.

Unit 1 section 2

Experimentation - with photoshop 

For this image i used the pen tool to create the lines around the person then added a glow effect onto that. the background was just the brush tool with different brushes. Then it was just up to the position of layers to get it all to look right. ( I forgot to do a screen grab of the original image, then couldn't find it online ).

Source image

Edited

 on this image i have used the brush tool to give her some eye shadow, and the burn and dodge tool on the eyes. Then some colour variations and other lighting tools like contrast and highlights. I've also changed her eye colour from the original image, to do this I used the quick selection tool to select her eye, then I went into image, adjustments, then into Hue and Saturation and played around with that to change the colour.

Edited

on this image i have used the liquify tool to drag her face around. Then the brush tool with a really low opacity  and a green colour to change her skin to more a green'y colour.

Source Images

Edited

on this image i used a picture from space and a picture from a park then placed the space picture over the top of the park picture and used the eraser with a low opacity to blend them together. The monster coming out of the water was done by selecting the the original image with the quick selection tool and dragging it over to this image. After this was all done I flattened the image and applied a filter over the top to make he lighting look the same over everything.

Source Images

Edited

again with this image i extended the sky in the volcano with the free transform tool, then placed the planet over the top of the volcano then used the eraser tool with a low opacity to blend them together. 

this is a flag we made in photoshop. to do this we used various shapes using the shape tool ( just rectangles at first) then used block colours to fill them in, after that we applied different shapes e.g. stars. after that we applied a texture from the internet which was fabric to give the ripple effect over the flag and then played with the opacity of that layer so we don't see the fabric show through on the flag.

this is a shape outline i made with the shape tool, then i selected the text tool then clicked on the edge of the shape and it allowed me to then write around the outside of the shape.

here i used the text tool and then highlighted all the words. then i used the little box on the side, to then move letters up and down, change the spacing and the angle of words.

Here i used the shape tool to make this shape, this time i clicked on the text tool then clicked inside the shape and it then allowed me to write things into it while keeping the words in the shape.

 on this i selected the text tool and created the words. Then pressed control and clicked on the layer the writing was on and it selected it for me. Then clicked on the warp text tool so that i could bend all the the writing around. Once that was done, still selected make a new layer and hide the original. Then i got the brush tool and found a colour and painted the test. with this image i used a low opacity so i could get the faded look.

Unit 1 section 1

Artist Research

Nico Di Mattia

I have been a really big fan of Nico Di Mattia ever since I started digital art very much like his (year and a half ago). He was one of the people who really inspired me to start digital art after watching a few of his speed paintings on YouTube. I was so fascinated by the whole drawn a computer thing and how real they looked and really wanted to give it a try. I really like Nico’s work for how real he makes his artworks look and the whole fact that he records the process and uploads it onto YouTube. The picture he has used is from transformers and is of the actress Megan Fox.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssOJQXdwmrI

There is the hyperlink to the video of nico drawing this image, I really do like the way he records his drawings for people to see his technique and also aid people for the progression of their work.

I think Nico gets a lot of his realism through things like the shadows and how detailed the lighting is. I like in this image how he made the background blurred so that the drawing stands out more, and also make it look like a photo with depth of field. I think the way he has textured the skirt is really nice and makes it look really real, and the same with the skin, he has made it look soft while the colour fits the image perfectly. Also the texture on the car to make it look old and banged up is done very well. But I think the most detail comes from the hair in this painting, it is so detailed that he has done every strand and put in different colours and lighting to make it look really real.

Adolfo Correa

I picked this artist because I really liked how he could just take an ordinary image and just transform into something completely different, maybe from a not so good photo into something that is just truly interesting. Even though he is a young student to graphic design he shows some amazing talent into his work. He almost brings his images to life by over doing the colour and things he puts into it.

What the artist has done is taken a photo of rocks on a beach/shore and photo manipulated things into the original image like, planets, light beams, stars and over the top colour.

I think the use of colour in this image is really clever and draws you into the image and make you look around to see what is happening. I really like the whole idea of the planets in the sky, it makes a sense this is from another world/ galaxy. I also like how some of the rocks are different colours too, maybe reflections? Or just generally different colours. I think the light beams give a really nice effect; I think it gives it a happy sort of feeling to the image, or maybe peaceful. I like how the light source coming out of the cliff is multi coloured, I think it makes the image a whole lot brighter, interesting and makes you look more into it.

I think the fact that the cliff with the ricks is on one side of the image and the sea the other, also the sea has all most of the colour and everything is happening in the sea or in the sky like all the light beams, and the colour. It makes the sea look more interesting compared to the rocks, makes the image more alive.

David Fuhrer

I chose David fuhrer because I think his work is really clever and interesting, I like his vision of what might be happening out in space because space is so undiscovered, he shows his view of what it ‘could’ look like. In this image there is a lot going on, you’ve got the countries with long roads looking like motorways, the things flying around in space, the explosion coming out of the planet on one side, and a lighter side on the other. This could suggest a good and evil side, or a something to do with the climate or poverty, or with wealth.

The things flying around in space look like bits of rubbish, maybe suggesting how people have polluted the world, or the world has eventually ran out of space for rubbish and now started putting it into space.

I think the city in the top right of the image is really cool; it looks sort of like a funfair. I think the darkness around the image then a little lighter towards the planet makes you focus more on the planet itself. I think this image really makes you focus on what is going on in each of the countries, it makes you look around the whole image to try and discover what everything is.

I think the roads all over the countries could be suggesting that eventually be no countryside left on the out planet and that everything will be taken over by concrete and buildings. I think you could back this up by looking at South America, this is generally quite a poor country compared to North America, and in this image it is showing that it is covered in roads. Overall I think this image is trying to show us what we’re doing to our planet and trying to make us realise that. 

Miss-Valence

In this image you can see I man sitting in a chair at the end of a pathway surrounded by floating mountains and a jungle sort of look. I think the path way is a really good idea because when you first look at the image it makes your eye gradually move up to the man sitting on the chair. Also the rocks on the side of the image look sort of like pillars which blocks your view slightly but makes you focus more on the man sitting in the middle of the image which is I think is a very good way of drawing you eye into this picture.  Then when you get to then man you see him looking up to the side of him at the floating mountains. This shows that his is thinking about something because people tend to look away or stare at random things when they think.

I think what this image is trying to show is the man dreaming or maybe imagining things in his mind, maybe everything you can see is what is going on in his head. The mountains look like the floating mountains from the film ‘Avatar’. I think the chair and bench that the man is sitting by could be showing that he is sat in his bedroom, or somewhere, and is daydreaming or thinking about something and everything that is going on around him is what he is thinking about. I think the clouds give a nice depth to the image, making it feel really high up in the sky there is this really relaxing place to be, almost like a heaven.

I think this is a very good way to show someone’s imagination and what someone could be thinking. 

The concept our ideas have to be based around is 'I demand'. Revolutionart magazine have said that they want the image we are creating has to be:
- High quality image, 300 Dpi, RGB, JPG
-No self promotion or spam
- just send artworks as requested, other sizes cant be accepted
- The use of our logo in our art is welcome, but not mandatory.

revolutionart's covers tend to be very basic, with basic colours. they dont like to go into to much detail, block colours, stencil look.

there title of the magazine is always the same font just in different places around the page each time.

There covers are much a vecter drawing style with block colour's

Revolution Art Research

While looking at the Revolution Art Mag's on there website, I noticed that There covers are really basic, basic vector drawings and basic colours. They haven't included a lot of detail in there images. So when it comes to making mine, I need to take into account all of this, Also there logo is the same every time, so I would need to include this as well.

Mindmap of ideas for magazine 













Thumbnail Sketches

Here is my thumbnail sketches I've done for my project using photoshop.


Chosen Idea

This is my chosen idea. This is because I came up with the idea of a painting on a street wall in a banksy style, the painting is of a soldier that has painted a piece sign. My original idea was that it was going to be someone painting the piece symbol, but whether it would be someone poor or a soldier, something like that, but I chose the soldier in the end because soldiers are always fighting, whether it would be for there country and for piece or not. There wasn't any specific tools i really used to do this, it was mostly layers and the free transform tool to arrange everything into place.

Inspiration Images

Source Images

1.2.1

The people I presented to liked my ideas for my work and suggested that:

The soldier needed to be more faded,

Maybe have a sign in the image, to make it more realistic,

Make it more real,

This is what I've come up with, I've changed the pavement into something a bit more real with weeds on and a  drain pipe. I've also added a sign into the image, to make it look more like a street. Also I've put the revolutionart logo onto the sign and made it look like someone has spray painted it on. The tool I used to put the sign in was the clone stamp tool, then to put the logo in I used the wand tool then deleted its background.