Experiments inspired by Initial Designers

Initial Idea 1

Here is my double exposure type experiment inspired by Rowan Stocks-Moore. How I created this image was by using my own photograph of a pair of shoes, tracing the image with a black pen, then scanning it into the computer. After that I then used an image from the internet of 'Cinderella', and used that as the background for the double exposure. Then using the magnetic also tool, I drew around the image of the girl in the shape of the shoes which underneath the tracing of the shoes. I added a blue background to make the exposure seem more dominate on the page. I like this technique a lot because it might seem quite technical to achieve but it is actually really simple to do.  

Initial Idea 2

Above is my next idea, inspired by Lynn Buckley. Her concept of design is combining drawings and photography together. I firstly started off with a photograph of my self that I made slightly bigger to fill an A4 piece of paper. My next step was too trace lightly around half of the face, exploring all of the detail in the picture. After I scanned the traced imaged into the computer, I then used Photoshop to create two layers; the bottom with the original photograph and the top layer with the drawing. I made sure that I placed the drawing directly on top of where the original image was. On the drawing layer I used the paint brush and fill bucket tools to add the right colours to the image. I liked the process of this experiment because it was a step by step guide which was pretty easy to follow. If I had to change anything about this experiment it would be to use different mediums, like paints, pencils, chalk. The reason why this is to get different textures and feels of the image, instead of relying on the digital effect.          

Initial Idea 3

My final experiment that I created in photoshop was inspired by Christian Jackson's minimalist illustrations. Again I used an picture of a pair of shoes that I photographed, and traced around them. I scanned the drawing into Adobe Illustrator, and expanded the image so that the lines would be more neater and cleaner in appearance. For each section of the shoes I added different colours into the area making the image more illustrational like. I added a blue gradient colour into the bows, a grey/silver into the side of the shoes and then a darker grey into the shoes itself. I like this type of experiment because it is really simple and can transform any image you want to create into a great illustrational image.