Sunday, 6 July 2014

Aspect to aspect page

Because I am focusing on music, I decided to do my piece using images from the music video Paradise by Coldplay. I played the music video and screenshotted parts of the video that I would find suitable to ink.



I then opened these images in photoshop adjusted the sizes so they fitted nicely alongside each other and printed them off.


Here is the montage of pictures I would ink. 

Using the light box and three sheets of paper, I inked different parts of the images on each different sheet of paper. I then scanned these drawings into photoshop.

After scanning the drawings in, I adjusted the threshold on each scan so it gave me pure black and white. I then changed the colours of the drawings to light blue, dark blue and black and placed them on top of each other.

After editing them I realised that I hadn't done enough ink and that my design looked quite bare so I used another sheet of paper and added more ink to the design.


This is the amount of ink that I added to my drawing.

I opened the scan in photoshop and did the exact same process as I did with all the other drawings (adjusting the threshold).

I changed the scan from black to a light pink and placed it over the other drawings.
Here is the final piece. I feel that I could've added more ink but I do like the fact that the colours are more simplistic.

Here is the piece with more ink added and some of the detail darkened.