Evaluation

Final Piece

Making my Final Piece

I started by drawing each of the parts to my drawing separately. After that I took each drawing, altered the levels and got rid of the background (some drawings I coloured in their separate photoshop documents). I then took them into one document and started placing the in the appropriate place. I first placed in the person and the coloured him in in a basic way. I then went on the add the stage in his head and arrange everything in the place I wanted it to be. I then added the crowd by using 5 different models and then colouring them differently and moving them into each individual place.  After that I added a few small details to the man and took this piece into indesign to create the magazine cover. I started by placing the drawing and I then used the typeface I made, to make the title. I added all the text, quotes, bylines and necessary parts to the magazine to finish my final piece.

Final Draft

So this was my final draft with my ideas almost finalised ready to create my final piece. I drew the two main parts of it separately and then put them together in photoshop.

Colour choices

For my colour choices, I decided to use my second experiment and change around the colours to see what it was like.

 This is my analogous piece, I feel that it is nice in an understated way and that it kind of represents depression with the reserved colours and fits well with the theme.

 This is my monochromatic piece, I don't like it very much as the lack of colours doesn't suit it and makes it look bit silly.

 This is my triadic piece and although i think the majority of the piece works well with each other, some of it doesn't work and it would be nice to have a few extra colours to make it looks more suitable.

This is my complementary piece, I think that the bright colours are quite nice and do suit the overall piece family well however the contrast between the two is large and therefore means that it's too bubbly for the piece.

Experimental Drafting 2

This is my second piece of experimental drafting.
I started by sketching an idea of what it would look like to give me an idea of what to draw and how to draw things (to be in perspective etc)

I then inked all the pieces I needed and added them to photoshop.

I arranged the objects to the place i want it to be and changed a few positions for certain objects. 

 I then added all th colour to these objects in photoshop.

 And finally added all the walls and the floor using a colour overlay on ink texture I created to make my finished piece.

Case Study

Experimental Drafting 1

This is my first experiment of one of my ideas I had in my scamps.
I did it all in ink and started by drawing the artists and the scenery separately for the image.

 I then added colour in photoshop to the artists.

 I placed all the parts in the correct areas for them to go, to do this I had to reverse one of the artists (Syd Barrett) so that they were both facing the right way.

I then added colour and texture using photoshop and the texture of ink to the other parts of the scenery before adding the background of the wall with another coloured texture to get the finished piece.

Drafting

These are two of my drafts of how I should arrange the magazine.

Analysis

Handdrawn Type

For my hand drawn type, I emulated the style of Jonny Hannah's type on a book of jazz artists. To start with, I copied the text from a page in the book to get an idea of the style and process of making it.

 I first drew all the words out in ink on paper, I then scanned it onto photoshop and changed the levels. I then arrange and coloured the text appropriately.

Then I wrote out the title of the article i'm using 5 different styles, which I then matched together and coloured them.

Digital Type

For my digital type, I found two different typefaces, I then changed them to look battered and rough, as it fits with the lives of the artists that I am using for my work. I then laid out the two types as the title of the article I am illustrating for.

For my first I used a brush on photoshop and brushed out parts of each letter to make it look scratched and worn.

                 

For the second type, I cut up parts of of the text and shifted these parts, it was to make an effect that looked a little like smashed glass.

Artist Emulation

For my artist emulation I decided to use Nick Drake, one of the musicians I am using in my piece. I used his hometown Tanworth-in-arden, which is a traditional English town. This meant that in the place of the lines used to represent the wood around the house on the original, I used patterns of brick in some places.

Artist Copy

I copied the front cover of Little Wolves by James Hindle.

I started by drawing the image in pencil, I then inked it. I then moved it into photoshop removed the white from the background and used the brush tool for the colours of it.

Photos of Subject Matter