The Final and reflection.

Displayed above is my final artwork. I decided to not use photoshop in the end as I felt I didn't have to, likewise I felt it would be fun to try seeing what the I-pad could do on its own. I am satisfied with the result, although there are some elements I would change if I went back and redo some areas such as the buildings. They were meant to be dramatic and non detailed, however a bit of refining in hindsight would not hurt.

An area I really liked however was the sky. it was very similar to how I remembered the actual sky, but this time a bit more fantasy like. In comparison to her environment, the woman stands out in my opinion, which is good as that is how she interacted with it in real life.

I like how it looks like she is either in deep thought or is just gazing into the distance, which is another part of her surrounding environment.

The technique for shading her face came from my fairly recent portrait of my friends face, which I feel has worked well, I also used this for the jumper, and I like the blending within it.

In conclusion I feel this final has been the end to a good learning experience for me.

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Quick sketches for final

Quick sketches and brush tests fir finals. I play around with mark making quite often before actually having a dedicated plan for any given area or texture.

Visuals and more development

Displayed in this post are the development for my planned final.

 

The image on the left was a sketch over of the original picture, to check the anatomy. the other 2 were painted a bit more for 5 minutes and then resized to try different perspectives. I am happiest with the 3rd one as with the addition of the sky I feel the final will be atmospheric. The original pose was fine but i like it as a scene more now.

I plan to do the majority of the painting, as always on the brushes app for my ipad. The nearby fence however, as well as elements of the buildings in the background, will be taken into photophop for the more linear parts.

For the color pallet I shall be using cool colors, as the original scene was during a really cold day.

Plans for my final/ Proposal

After looking back at all of my work the above observational drawing was my favoirte. originally drawn through a caffe window, it depicted a young woman resting on the edge of an ice rink on a cold icey day. I really liked the direction she was looking, and the composition in general. As such I plan to develop this image into a final, as it will both focus on a person as well as their environment.

Before I put all the skills I have learnt for my I pad to use, I will do some visuals to play around with the composition some more, as there may be more still I can do for this image.

Success and Failure, experimentation.

As promised the other day I tried 2 different styles for the same image. I drew one of my friends, although I loosely drew the structure lines for both images quickly so i didn't have to worry about the expression being held.

The first image I spent an hour on. I used much bolder and solid colour than normal, and with minimal blending. I really like this effect, and feel I will develop this way of working for the final piece as well.

The actual peice itself is not perfect, But I feel it is defiantly an improvement.

However the next image is not successful at all in my opinion. I tried drawing my friend again in 15 minutes, like the traditional artist in my last peice did, however the anatomy is off and the shading no where near the traditional version. It was fun to try, however I now know it will be colour like the above I shall be attempting for my final.

Research part 2

2 more thoughts about my digital work hit me recently. Trying new things and getting inspiration from traditional work. for most of my studies and sketches I have used low opacity brush marks to help speed up the process of sketching, and I tried it once with an earlier image, however I plan to now try it again.

The above image is a 1 hour speed painting on photoshop from http://aurora-stylus.deviantart.com/
The artist here has used solid colour and a tight palette to blend the co,lour in her image, instead of using the same colour but at different strengths. I really like the effect it has on the characters hair and the skin on the face.

The traditional element I was talking about earlier was inspired by this. it has a great feel and mood, and the mark making is great. I'm not sure how I can recreate such an effect, but with I-pad and photoshop I intend to give it a try and see what I get.

By artist María Emegé

over at http://emege.deviantart.com/

So now all that remains is to go down town and try these ideas...

Recent Updates

Hi again all. Now 220 and the essay are out of the way I can start uploading work I have been doing for this module again.

For todays post I decided to show 2 quick Ipad drawings.

The first is of 2 people at pizza hut. Creating shapes like tables is harder to do on an I-pad then photoshop, so I decided I should be merging the use of both programs more.
I did like the mood in this quick 5-10 minute piece though, from pizza hut.

 The next I-pad sketch is from my house. we were watching TV the other day, so I did this in 10 minutes. The faces are sketchy, but I like the colour pallete used. It feels slightly organic to me, like the colours I could see then.

Although I plan to go back and redo the faces on photoshop with my tablet, I did have some quick fun with filters and overlaying texture, to see how they effected the mood of the piece

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Although not perfect, these do indeed add some interest at least. My next steps are to finalize ideas and techniques for my project, and start getting to the final.