Studio Brief 2 - Visual Thinking
Your Initial Brief - Photoshop
Before using work from my initials brief I scanned in one of my sketches and started to play around with using layers on Photoshop to add colour. I learnt that I could create lots of layers for different colours and change the opacity and brush strokes. I also learnt that I can add texture to my image by scanning in a piece of clothing or a ceiling or floor to add more depth. This is something I will definitely experiment with in the future as I have had quite a lot of feedback advising to use different media and textures.
I scanned in one of my images from the 'History of Rap Music' brief and opened it onto Photoshop. I went onto adjustments and levels playing around with the white's and darks of the image to make the lines clearer and the white background stand out more. After doing this I created a white background layer and created a mask. This allowed me to use the magic wand or quick selection tool to select areas of colour I wanted to fill. I erased any unwanted marks and lines to clean up my image. I figured as I already had bright red sharpee colour on my piece, and black, that I would make the piece quite bold and use bold and contrasting colours. I chose grey for the skin to represent a quite dark skin tone but also age. As this is the 'history' of rap I wanted to show rap at an age, but bold colours to also represent a sense of youth and how rap is still very much current. I found it quite time consuming picking out areas with the magic wand and to quick select it all I was colouring over my lines. To overcome this difficulty I created a new layer, and clicked multiplyer which allowed me to then colour areas and still keep my lines. I could also play around with the opacity of this if I wish to and add more layers for different areas of colour which is really useful. I enjoyed playing around with this and eventually started to add some tone to the piece but I'm not sure if that ruined it a little bit - I maybe got a bit carried away with it. To try something different I played around with the colour of the lips also to see which was most bold and contrasting. Another problem I faced is when I coloured the background in black I knew that I would lose most of my lines like the chains around the neck and would need a lighter colour so I added a lighter grey to still reflect the face which I think works well.
I will now begin to go back to my initial drawings and scan those in to play around with.
Adding textures - encorporating images of actual bubbles into my drawing
Adding colour layers
Blocks of colour
Working colour into an image more - tone
Composition
Self Evaluation
I feel that I have progressed with Adobe Photoshop well since starting the course as I had no previous experience of it (only Adobe Illustrator) and so the sessions have been useful for me. To be honest, I felt a little lost in the sessions at times things moved too fast for me and I had to ask a lot of questions in order to keep up and get my head around things. However I do feel I have learnt the basics pretty well. I am now able to scan in my drawing, successfully colour it, and kind of add textures to it but I am still getting the hang of that! I can crop my images and play around with the adjustments and levels to enhance the white background and make my lines more black. I can add layers, set them to multiply in order to still colour over my image without losing any lines. I learnt a lot of Photoshop short cuts including zooming in and out and making my eraser bigger and smaller which was useful. I also learnt how to print screen in order to blog my process too! Overall I feel I have made a good start and will definitely continue to practice more in future briefs. Something I need to work on is scaling my work to A5 before I actually begin to draw because I found with all of these pieces I coloured them starting at A4 size and in the end had to crop them to A5 which meant I lost most of the image. Sometimes this could work to an advantage and make a more interesting composition but I feel my images do look as though they have just been cropped down.
Final Outcomes
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