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. 

Arthur Mount

This is an Arthur Mount image, I think that a lot of his images will have been real photographs, with the outlines traced and scanned into a computer, then filled with colour on a programme like photoshop. I like how these images turn out and Im going to try that myself again, only using thinner lines than a felt tip pen than last time.

I think the same has been done with this one, this is my favourite of the two images.

Ekhornfoss – Kjell Ekhorn and Jon Forss

This Ekhornforss image will have been hand drawn and digitally manipulated. I think that the image of the car on the road would have been taken using a digital camera, and perhaps the image of the house interior would have been traced, or drawn over, then scanned in to a computer. The walls and floor will then have been removed and edited to look different, bringing the outside into the interior part of the image.

This would have been an original image, manipulated digitally. The walls and other things in the image may have either been drawn around on the computer, or hand drawn around and scanned in, then block filled digitally, to give the image a cartoon like feel.

This final image will be many images. The buildings in the foreground will be several images, layered over each other, drawn around, scanned in and filled with colour to make it look cartoon - like. They then would have been layered onto the background image of the clouds.

Finley recreation

This is my recreation of Jeff Finleys concert advert, all of the images used in this ad are from the internet, none of my own photgraphs. Alltogether there are 2 different imagews, the background and the little girl with the umbrella. The image consists of 11 layers, and 5 colour changing layers such as 'brightness/contrast' and 'hue/saturation'. I used the background layer of the hills, then used content aware fill tool to add nearly all of the sky, from the girls foot upwards. Then the scond layer was the girl holding the umbrella, which I cut out from another image, then I added an old film layer and changed the blending mode to overlay, to give the desired effect, then next two layers were the blemishes on the image, the circles, which I added with a brush and changed the opacity. Then the other layers were for the text. I quite like the way this image has tuned out, I think that I recreated the feel of the original advert well and used alot of my photoshop skills to produce this.  

These are the two original images that I used for the final image. I flipped both images, I think that it is hard to tell that the final image is composited from these two images.

Jeff Finley

Jeff Finley has been designing since 2004 and has now started to design for a lot of punk rock bands and indie clothing brands. He also is an award winning t-shirt designer and has written an e-book on the t-shirt designing industry. I like the indie genre of these manipulated images and how simple the images are, I would like to try and recreate an advertisement like this possibly as a final as out the artists I have researched so far, Jeff Finley's work is the most appealing to me.

Advert

I saw an image similar to this on a leaflet on my way out from the self service checkouts in Tesco after buying a roasted hog sandwich. I thought I would try and recreate the photo becasue I quite liked it, After making the headphone into the wheels of the car, I deceded to make it into an advert for free iPods with the car. T made the image using the two original images above the finished thing and printscreened the writing from DaFont, as you are not allwoed to download fonts on the college computers. I quite like his final image!

Grunge

I made this on Photoshop using a set of grunge brushes, and a set of gory brushes for the blood splatters, and another set of brushes for the hand. This is the last image like this I am going to make for this project, Im not going to focus on artist resarch and find the kind of image I want to make for my final image.

This is another quick iamge that I mde on Photoshop with scanned in resources, I scanned a leaflet for the pokadots and the outline of the UK, I drew around a weather forecast in the newspaper, then scanned that in and erased the country and sea.

THE SUNrise

This is another version using the same resources as the image before, however I made 'The Sun' rise from behind the building.

The Sun

This is an image I created in Photoshop, I'm not a fan of this particular image but I think that it is important to try out different techniques and ideas before starting progress on the image manipulation that I am interested in. For this image I scanned in the background newspaper, copied an image of a cityscape from google images, erased the sky on the image and pinned a black layer over the original cityscape to make the silhouette. I copied the logo of The Sun from google images and warped it on Photoshop to make it look circular, then turned the hardness of a circular brush to zero to and brushed behind the sun to make it glow, then brushed lines using the same brush to show the heat of the sun and turned that layer to 8% opacity. All together this image is made from 3 images and one brush.

Apple.

This is another play around on photoshop using brushes, I used two different downloaded brushes for this, the first for the circles on the background (which change to differnt shades on their own) and another light streak brush for the lines behind the apple. I saved the apple logo from google images and then in a seperate photoshop document removed the white background it had, played with the hue and saturation to give the apple a blue colour to match my background, then copied and pasted it onto my background, them resized and positioned it. Im quite happy with how this turned out, but dont think I will be doing this style of image manipulation for my final image.

Random play

This is one of the first plays on Photoshop to do with image manipulation I have done. I only spent 15 minutes on changing the bottom image to the one on the right. I'm not really a fan of the image I made but it was just to see what is possible with brushes. I like using the different brushes and I think ill definitely use them in my final image.

Kid Spaniard

Kid Spaniard is an illustrator who also uses graphic design and photo manipulation to achieve her images. Her images look airbrushed and fake, although they come from a real image to start with, these two do anyway. Im not a fan of these types of imaging but i thought it would be good to research to show how diverse digital manipulation can be.

Patrick Morgan

Patrick Morgan is an illustratior who illustrates very accurately drawn, yet cartoon-like style images, based on real life images. I like his style and think that images like these could be quite easily made from real photographs using digital image manipulation. From a distance the second Chanel illustration looks quite real, however the colours show that it is obviouly not. This loks to me like it could have been made on Photoshop, Illustrator or something similar.

This is the same Banksy image that i have quickly edited to show the difference it can make, they no longer look like the same image. This one loooks as though it could have been hand drawn and scanned in, or made from scratch on a programme like Photoshop or Illustrator.

Banksy art is interesting, it looks like it could have been made digitally and could be good to edit on Photoshop.