Evaluation.

Overall I think this project went okay, I wouldn't say it was my best project but I mag aged to finish everything on time with some results that I am Happy with. I quite like my three finals, especially the one of the car and the one I printed. I learnt alot of new things on photoshop, mainly downloading brushes ect, but I am now more confident on photoshop as a whole. I took the approach of learning new techniques first, then finding artists that I liked and trying to recreate and take ideas from their work. For example, the final I printed was heavily influenced by an Jeff Finley's work. If I were to do this project again, I would have spent less time messing around with brushes at the start of the project, and concentrated more on finals, as I had to complete one last final on the last day. Also, I had to print on the last day as well, which was risky because if there had been a fault with the printer, I wouldn't have been able to hand in on time. Overall though I think this project didn't go too well, and I didn't particularly enjoy this unit.

FINALS

This is my final that I am planning to print off. I chose to print this one becuase alot of photoshop work went into making it, and I got the idea from artist research, which shows good contextual research. I like this image overall and think it looks quite professional, similar to the image I got the idea from, yet very different at the same time. The details on how I made this image are in the first post about it.

This is another of my finals that I am not printing. I chose this one as a final because I like the simplistic look of it, and the way you dont associate headphones and cars, making the audience look twice to find out what its about. I also like how well the headphones have been edited to look like the wheels, at a glance you may not notice, and I definitely think that if the wires of the headphone were not there, it would be hard to notice the strange wheels. The details of how I made this are on the original post.

I chose this as a final becuase I think it shows alot of different techniques. It involved photogaprhing, printing, tracing, scanning and photohoop skills, with a slight bit of hand drawing in there aswell. It is not my favouite image but I think that I achieved what I wanted to quite well.

Ekhornfoss creation

This is my version of Ekhornfoss's work. As I have already said on the original image they woul'd have taken a photo and scanned then digitally cut it out on a programme like phtoshop, overlayed it onto andother image and 'brought the outside in'. For this image I found a picture of a conservatory on the internet, printed it off and taraced over the important lines in the image. Then I scanned it in and cut out pieces of the image, overlayed it onto the image I took of my old diorama and this is what it looked like. I dont really like the final image but I think it shows a good process. 

Arthur Mount idea

This is my creation, inspired by Arthur Mounts work, mainly the urban scene from above. I took a photgraph of my shed, traced over it using a ruler, scanned it into photoshop and added the colour, which is how I would imaging Arthur Mount created his images. I like this final image and I think it shows good technique.

Kaycee

I also found this girl on Deviantart, her full name isn't mentioned, just the name 'Kaycee'. She is under the catagory 'photo manipulator' which helps when imagine how the artist created the image. I think that this image will probably be two or more separate images, the girl in blue and the background at least, because the lighting on the girl isn't the same lighting that the surroundings would have given her. The colour of the image has been changed drastically, to give the image a different feel than it would have straight out of the camera. I also dont think that the clouds are real, they could be from a different image, hand drawn and scanned in, or a brush possibly. I am not really a fan of this final creation.

Mark Brooks

I found this artist, Mark Brooks on Deviantart. He is an illustrator by profession, and draws his basic images freehand in pencil. I assume he then scans them into a computer and fills them with colour and makes small alterations. Both the sample images I have here also have the original pencil drawing with them. The top left image is the original hand drawn pencil illustration, then the bottom left is the next stage after he scanned it into the computer, and the image on the right is the final creation, having been filled with colour on a programme such as photoshop. I like Mark Brooks' work, but I think if i tried to do something similar it would turn out very badly, as he is a talented illustrator in the first place (whereas I most certainly am not) 

Heres another image with the original hand drawing on the left and the finished image on the right, Mark Brooks would have used the same technique for this one as he would the top image.

Arthur Mount II

 This is another Arthur Mount illustration, I really like this image and had to do another post about it. Im going to try something like this as well. He would have made this the same way as his other images, but made some of the woman's clothing the same colour as the background, making it blend in and give the strange effect that she is wearing her surroundings.