omnomnicon art: digital manipulation

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Tuesday, 4 February 2014

Tom Lind

Tom Lind is an artist featured on Behance. What caught my eye was the thumbnails of his moleskin sketchbook drawings, because they looked very interesting in terms of the mark making and technical elements of the sketches.

In the sketchbook it looks as though he's used a combination of ink and marker pens, doodling across the pages. The drawings have been given a flowing composition across the spreads which is something I really like about these sketches.

He also leaves a lot of white space around the images, but I think this is a good thing in that it emphasises the clean, neat edges of the drawings. A lot of the lines are marked in short, quick strokes, sharp and angular, as seen in the above detail shot of the second spread. Most of his tonal elements come from the cross hatching method, which is something I haven't really experimented with but could definitely try to develop in the future.

These two spreads were from his Bauhaus sketchbook. The sketchbook itsself is almost like any other except the bottom edge is cropped at an angle, giving it an odd overall shape. Again the sketches in these spreads flow across the page, leaving a lot of white space around, again adding to the odd composition. In the first one I really like that he's added a splash of cyan blue because it really draws the eye to that specific focal point and then allowing the eyes to wander over the rest of the image.

The second spread I like because it's very different from the first three spreads presented. Although there are of course similarities, like the page composition and flow of the piece, in this one there are no solid blocks of black ink to contrast with the rest of the work. However because there's so many different images within to look at, I think it works equally well and shows off his technical ability to another level.

The white space left around his work reminds me of my own submission for the Digital Manipulation unit in Module 1. The white space directs your eye right to the main focal point of the image and emphasises the strength of the line and the bright colour used. I also think there's a similarity in the atmosphere of the images- my horse possesses a lot of momentum and impulsion whereas Lind's spreads flow easily along the page, like a cloud across a summer sky.

all images for research purposes only

Friday, 3 January 2014

Digital Manipulation- final pieces 3 & 4

The second half of my submission for Digital Manipulation were two mixed media pieces. They both started off as digital sketches, and then I printed them and painted over them to eventually edit them in Photoshop.

This was my favourite piece out of all of my final images. I used a mix of watercolour and brusho paints to apply the colour and then edited and cleaned up the image in photoshop. This is my favourite because of the momentum and flow in the image- I feel like it has a big presence and a lot of energy which is something I admire in other equine artist's work.

As my fourth and final image, I thought this was a good attempt at changing colour and playing with contrasts in Photoshop.

Digital Manipulation- final pieces 1 and 2

For our Digital Manipulation unit we were to produce 4 final images.

This was my first final image for digital manipulation. I spent quite a lot of time on this image, digitally painting it by starting with one base colour and then building up the shading and highlights from there. To get the white patterning I used a clipping mask over the colour layer and added the white where I wanted too. I locked the layer when I was satisfied with the shape of the patterns and then shaded them according to the rest of the body.

My second image had a similar approach to the first, although I specifically spent a lot less time on this one. I began in the same way by drawing some lineart and then colouring in the base. However this time I only added light shading and highlights, and I tried a different technique of colouring the hair all together. Instead of building up the hair with lots of layers of separate strands, I instead coloured different 'chunks' of the hair in different shades. I prefferred this image to the first one, mainly because I think the colours are a lot more complimentary to each other and I liked that I didn't have to slave over it for hours on end to produce a good end result.

Tuesday, 19 November 2013

missmessymess

Another deviantartist, missmessymess has an eclectic collection of works, ranging from digital illustrations to reportage done in pencil and other works in acrylic on boards.