Evaluation

I am quite pleased with the outcome of my collage, however I would have liked the images I collected to be better quality, I did my best (at the time) to fix them together but some of the larger drawings I feel should be sharper and more prominent as if closer to the foreground. I like the message I communicated however I think that not everybody will pick up on it, Although this can be said for any image depending on personal views and creativity. I would have liked to draw all the creatures digitally but would have been entirely time consuming and my skills are not quite up to scratch at  the moment but I am looking to improve greatly, Having said that I like the original drawn characters and brings a personal note to the piece from me as I draw a lot in the same way as the theme. Also drawing is the most common element in creativity so becomes more recognisable.

Image breakdown

A breakdown of my image layers (not in order of completion)

 I photographed the drawn images and then selected the are I wanted without white space, then positioned/ transformed them into the position I wanted so they would fit together, then I applied a texture and played with the opacity and erased some sections accordingly.

 I arranged the images into an army collective style, I then added the photo of my young brother and gave it a red hue, later I erased some sections to create a complimentary pattern of an image to go beneath my drawn version

 I added a cosmic overlay to give the figure an interesting colour.

 I drew a version of the face using a graphics tablet and gave it dark colours which bring out the other two sections of the image.

I then gave it a black background with a blue streak to create a eerie mental landscape.

Final collage

This is the final outcome, many classmates have told me it looks like a similar scene to 'Pokemon' or a number of creations that include a large collection of characters or monsters. It is good to combine my drawings and actually do something with them.

Image Explanation

The adolescent, growing up and becoming the person he will be for the rest of his life, is creating his own expressions from things he sees uniquely. This image includes surrealist styles, such as the un-natural colours and forms that could not physically exist, this suggests that this is an astral plane within the mentality of this individual, there are mental connotations such as the cosmic colour he sees himself as shows his importance within the image. The characters are formed from his eye representing his expression (the theme of the collage). The black space represents the space within his mind soon to be filled with his ideas and personality. I arrived at this Image with reference from Salvador Dalis' 'The Dream' because of its surrealist representation of a thought (below).

Early Stage

I was originally going to draw all of the creations using a graphics tablet but I then decided that I liked the rawness of the drawn images, plus my skills with pen and pencil are more developed than my photoshop. This is a stage that I quite liked the look of so I saved it for documentation.

Building the collage

Subject and Message of Art Collage

·      Reality

·      Sub-tones of the real world- relationships- mathematics

·      Personified visuals- images that relate to perception

·      Intricate, non-face value existing elements

·      Parts of a whole

What kind of visuals, Ideas or graphics are you inspired by?

·      The matrix trilogy

·      Science fiction

·      Optical illusions

·      Salvador Dali- Surrealism

How are you going to produce the visuals, photographs, graphics, etc?

·      Photo manipulation

·      Graphics

·      Collating imagery of my own drawn fiction

(This was not drawn by me...pretty good if it was) This is a picture of my brother at a younger age, I want to include this to represent a young, pure and youthful outlook, the developing stages of growing up where you have to take in and understand the world and become an individual creation and express yourself through who you are.

These are a few of my drawings I have produced in my own time and for my concept art for my story development unit, these are all an expression of myself at the time I drew them in one way or another, I hold drawing quite close to me because it lets me communicate a very prescise emotion that would take many words to describe. This is what got me onto the track of 'Expression' and 'expression of reality'.

Speedy image experimentation

This is a quick Image I put together shortly after aquireing some of the skills I used in the tutorials. I tried to create an abstract meaning that others can draw their own meaning from, for example the way I see it, the roundness of the orange represents the roundness of the moon, a symbol for a beastial being such as the wolf. The animal nature of the wolf looking upon the man with an orange for a head is being teased, this represents the subtext of an office relationship, the suit character is offensive to the wolf representation and brings out a side of him and he is ready to attack. I chose an orange for the head because it has skin, and flesh and represents the absense of a brain or any higher function, it becomes a vegetable character (although it is a fruit).

Photoshop Tutorials

Merging 3 images using 'Feather' between them and adding a letterbox black boarder plus the logo.

Colour overlays and experimentation with layers.

A combination of 3-4 images to create a kind of film poster, all I did to this was apply gradient masks and warp and change the opacity of images such as the forks.

Masking on a picture of an aircraft to seem to be reflecting from his glasses, magic wand used.

David Julian- Artist critique

http://www.davidjulian.com/

This is a piece on 'Transformation', this includes relevent images such as butterflies (transforming from a caterpillar) and a fully grown woman (transforming from a girl into womanhood- puberty)

Why is his/her work topical? 

Because it is an exaggeration of reality and representative of ideals and events such as Female transformation.

What ideas, both through form and content, are they exploring? 

Relationships, issues and occurances in life such as buisness conquest and equalibrium shifts.

What techniques were employed to produce the selected work? 

Overlaying image textures and blending a formation of images successfully in a desirable composition, certain segments can be more prominent to draw focus.

How does their work relate to traditional art forms or the works of earlier artists? 

These works could be seen to relate to surrealist such as Salvador Dali because it amplifies on the real world and embodies certain details of the many aspects making up its theme.

How does it define, critique, or embrace the future? 

Society is becoming more expressive and people have many outlets for their opinions and expression, these images hold a certain ammount of propaganda because those who understand the image themes will then understand their own views because they understand them. The future is full of many people creating and venting ideas, this falls in with the way of the future but stands out as a good example.

Do you respond (or NOT respond) to its content, its construction, its aesthetics, or its storyline?

These images represent something I want to capture in my image, I feel that images can communicate a point far better and more personally than any ammount of words as long as the content, message and soul is actually there.