Wind Up Doll

Starting to get used to editing in Photoshop a bit more now... this is part of a project I am currently working on, the theme is everyday objects and under this theme I decided to chose Trafficking and how children and older females are used as objects being resold and abused rather than real people. I am trying to demonstrate this through the characteristics of a doll to make the victim appear fragile and innocent, this will also relate to people more as most people had their own doll that they cherished so by making a person like a doll makes the urge to protect stronger and that is what I am trying to do with this project, get people to want to help her.

Inky Life Drawing

For this piece I used mainly charcoal to get more of a feel for the shading on the woman's body, I also found that the use of charcoal adds to the appearance of a soft skin texture. I then added the orange Ink background to give a more 3D look to the piece as warm colours create depth, it also brought out the contrast within shading on the body as it wasn't just being compared to white paper.













For this piece I started off with ink of a stick to find the proportions and shape of the body without having to be too precise. Then for the shading I used various other colours of ink combining cool and warm colours to create depth and a delicate feel to the piece.

Everyday Objects

Here is an observational drawing I did of everyday objects (my current project theme is everyday objects). The original contrast didn't come through very well on the scanner so I took it into Photoshop and adjusted the white balance to darken the lines more and make it more contrasted to give more definition to the objects.

'Logical Flow'

I made this in response to Michael Busselle's 'Logical Flow' piece from the book Creative Digital Photography by Michael Busselle. I chose three unrelated pictures just as he did for his piece, his piece seemed to evoke the idea of a memory or time pass, so I thought I'd follow that theme but using my own images (only the clock face is from Google, the rest is my photography.) I chose to respond to Busselle's piece because I really liked the dream-like/ghostly effect it gave the image, whilst also widening my knowledge of photo manipulation on Photoshop (even though this is very basic).

Digital Wolf

Still continuing on improving my digital painting skills, I also decided to give myself a harder task of digitally painting a Wolf. This challenged me because this is the second successful wolf I have drawn the first being in pencil which I will upload soon. I decided to draw most of the attention to the eyes as they are usually the most popular thing about the appearance of a wolf in paintings and photos as their eyes tell you a bit more about their characteristics which is something very important. I tried to make this wolfs appearance differ from the first one I drew to show different gender maybe, characteristics,etc because I feel this is important to make something your own.

Red Indian Digital Painting

I have been given a summer project about every day objects and I am associating my piece with Red Indians and the object it shall be about is a flute from their time as music is timeless and can tell any story. So to meet my own personal wants to improve my digital work and to produce something to help me achieve something toward my summer project I produced this Red Indian. I am proud of him as I've never successfully done a portrait in colour well on Photoshop before so this has made me happy!

Christopher Walken

For the digital portrait I chose to do Christopher Walken as he is amongst my favourite actors. This portrait is slightly off (mainly his right eye and the proportions of his face) ,however, I feel proud that this is my first 'free hand' portrait that I have produced on Photoshop. However now that I have done this I want to extend my 'personal project' and produce a more realistic and detailed digital portrait and hopefully work my way to producing a photo-realistic piece.