Updated Concept Boards

Here they are, the concept boards with changes made to them..

 

Surrealism

In class we began a new project a few weeks ago on Photoshop... we were to create a surrealistic landscape through juxtaposing images. We also required to play with scale and to be sure to include a foreground, middle ground, and background.

This is the composition I came up with....

 

Abstraction of an Object

Recently in class we were working on a new assignment that has to do with abstraction. The objective was to choose a small object and to draw it realistically on an 8x8. After that we were to choose a smaller section of that drawing with a viewfinder 4x4, then we placed tracing paper on top of the drawing and beneath the viewfinder to then trace the section that we had selected. We were encouraged to find an area of the composition that showed figure and ground relationship. Then, we made a grid on the tracing paper and also on an 8x8 to then enlarge the selected area of the piece making sure to abstract it. We were also to mix three different values of tempera paint making sure that there was noticeable difference between the colors. Once we had the paint mixed and the new 8x8 composition we began painting.

This is a snapshot of me tracing two other 8x8 compositions of the abstracted drawing.

We are doing three compositions and reversing the color of the first.... so for example whatever if painted black in the second composition will be painted white. Then the third composition will be textured with real and or implied texture.

 

This is the first painting I did of my abstracted object but in the end I had to re-do it because I painted on drawing paper which caused the paper to curl a lot. So next week in class I re-painted it on Bristol paper which is much thicker and as a result I had less curling which made it easier to paint.

I will post the three finished compositions once they are done and mounted.

 

Concept Boards

A recent assignment in this class was to create concept boards using Photoshop. I believe the purpose of this assignment was to introduce the class to what a concept board is and the purposes of making one. As well as to enable use to practice different tools on Photoshop and to introduce us to new ones. I also believe we were given this assignment to reflect subjects we have covered in this class.

The assignment was to create three boards on Photoshop with one about an artist, principle, and element. We were also encouraged to use new techniques and tools that were taught to us such as changing color by using color range and using bitmap to abstract a picture. 

This concept board was a snapshot I took while working on it in the computer lab. I had abstracted the main image through bitmap and then changes the color by selecting the color range. I have changed the colors on this concept board and have added more to the composition.

This is a snapshot of all three concept boards I created. I plan to go back an add more contrast to the center picture on the line board because the image is washed out by the blue boarder it is placed on top of.

For the concept board below on Gustav Klimt I am pretty satisfied with but my professor suggested I add a black boarder around Klimt's portrait to emphasis that the board is about it. I plan to go back into Photoshop and see how I like it and decide if I will keep it without or with the boarder.

Then for the last concept board on that I did on contrast I felt there something missing but was unsure how exactly I wanted to resolve it. I thought about adding text below the image in the center to balance the composition better or my professor suggested that I enlarge the photo. Again, I will probably play around with both possibilities in Photoshop and then decide from there which one I prefer.

After I have made adjustments to these concept boards I will print them out again and then they will be mounted on poster board flush to the edge.