Final Major Project

For the next step with my images I started filling a sketchbook with ink painting work in order to create a variety of elements to be used in my arrangements. I started with purpose-drawn features to work with specific surroundings, like this piece:

**PLEASE NOTE THAT THE COLOURS ARE UNFORTUNATELY CHANGED WHEN UPLOADED HERE, AND DO NOT APPEAR AS SUCH ON THE ORIGINALS**

The crack in the earth was drawn at a perspective matching the environment photo, and then photographed at a correlating angle, to add depth of field.

Another example of specific elements added in:

This piece depicts a biblical-inspired plague, a means of adding action and motion to a piece in a more subtle form than the first piece with the obvious giant demonic figure. It was constructed by combining two different city photos. I chose angles that slightly mismatched to give an uneasy feeling for the viewer. The following are the individual drawn elements: 

The swarm was cloned and layered multiple times, with appropriate motion-blur added to different areas. The large individual insect serves in illustrate what the swarm implies, while adding another moving element to draw the eye. 

In addition to specific features, I then started to fill the sketchpad with random mark-making to generate texturing and detail for use within the digital composites, based on feedback and suggestions. The process of adding in and freely-arranging textures to images worked successfully for the Age UK brief, so I hoped to further this technique. The following are some examples: