Body Parts: Experimenting with Photoshop.

As part of my brief, I started looking towards recreating a collage but in a kind of more illustrative/graphic style. It started just from some observational drawings I was doing of my hands, which I then decided to scan in! 

I haven't used photoshop properly in a long time, but I do have a basic knowledge of how to work it. So I decided to try and teach myself how to colour in drawings using photoshop. To begin with I was doing really simple ones, playing around with the sizes and areas of colour. I liked how these looked, however the lines are a little sloppy (and are throughout!).

You can see the heavy lines around the fingernails below, I think this is mainly to do with the original drawing, so if I do more I will have to be more careful.

After this, I learnt how to rotate the brushes! This gave me much more options in terms of placement and composition, which I then started to take into more consideration. I made the images busier this time and tried to create connections within the image. I think the use of colour is more fluent too and they look more like a set.

For my last two images I wanted to be a little more experimental. Finished you can see that it was less about the drawings and more about colour blocking and experimenting with overlapping the images. I think the last two look great and I'm happy with how the idea evolved as I was working through it. (Again, I apologise for the really close up shabby lines in the second image!) I think this was a great place to start in terms of trying to work within the pathway I'll hopefully be moving on to! Re-training myself in photoshop was frustrating but fun too, I'd like to come back to this way of working at a further point and experiment with more possibilities.