Evaluation
When I received this project brief I was excited, I really enjoyed the research part of the brief, I also liked the idea of creating my own images based on the seven deadly sins. I liked looking into different artists and designers because their work really influenced me in my own work especially the work of Illustrator Craig Shields - If I hadn’t of looked at his work I probably wouldn’t of had one of the final images of my own work and the style it was.
The images I had to create had to be based on original source material which I found at first, a little hard, but as I started to take pictures around my house and various places, I started to come up with ideas that I could potentially develop further.
I also looked into the seven sins a little bit more because I had to pick three out of them, I did mind maps and various idea-generating techniques into some of the deadly sins to research further. To improve on this part of the project I could of used more techniques for more of the sins to get a wide range information.
Google was my main source of research, as well as looking at artists who had done pieces of work representing the sins. At first I started to experiment with a few techniques in photoshop that I had noticed other artists had done in their own work and how it could be incorporated into my own.
My three sins that I eventually chose were; Pride, Wrath & Greed. For pride I already knew what I wanted to do. I wanted to use the same kind of styles that I had seen in my artist research, I started to play about in Photoshop with the glow effects and various other tools until I got where I thought was a complete piece. I think my pride image was the best out of all three, probably because of how influenced I was by my artists that I had chosen.
For Wrath I experimented with various photoshop brushes, I had seen a previous image created by a student that represented Lust and I wanted to try the same technique - Slightly different on my own work for the sin Wrath, but I didn’t feel that it worked as well as I thought. I tried a few various styles for the sin Wrath until I finally knew which Idea I was going to go with.
I think for this project I did alot of research into artists and I found it really benefited me when I was coming up with my own ideas for my work. What I was looking for was images that looked contemporary but still had that digital effect. I even created some A3 sheets using paints, inks and pens etc to try to work with my own images, And I used two of them faded into my final pieces at the end of this.
I feel I learnt a few skills in Photoshop from this project, I learnt a lot more tools on creating effects on images that I didn’t really understand before, I feel more confident using these techniques for future pieces of my work. I used various brushes on my pieces and also the eraser tool to create effects how I wanted.
I have enjoyed this project, I enjoyed using Photoshop as this is what I use mainly anyways, I feel I have produced some nice pieces of work which possibly I couldn’t of done before without understanding the tools more. I have learnt about new artists that I won’t forget anytime soon such as Craig Shields, David Waters & Jonathan Foerster. I think I will try to use their style of work in my own work again sometime.
