Monday, 31 March 2014

Lino Print + Photoshop (Experimenting with materials)



 Once I'd combined the two layers I then changed the Hue and light levels. (shown above) 
Once I'd printed the first lino, I then worked into it again and  re printed it, adding it to photoshop and colouring it.
Because I had never used the material 'lino' i thought I'd experiment by drawing the mad hatters hat out, however instead of adding the '6/10' card I added a heart playing card which is and has been a big part in my subject matter and also familarised with Alice in Wonderland.  
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Thursday, 27 March 2014

Colour Schemes


Colour Schemes

M O N O C R O M A T I C 
Within this monochromatic I have used different shades of purple, I chose this colour as Alice's dress is blue, and I feel the colour blue allowed me to use a range of different shades to contrast monochromatic. 

I feel this looks slightly odd as having blue skin isn't exactly socially acceptable.. or realistic.

 However, If I was designing an all blue/monocromatic book cover, It would fit in well as it gives a sense of trippyness the idea of wonderland being in a different world/dream.


C O M P L E M E N T A R Y 
By looking at the colour wheel, I chose two colours which complemented each other - YELLOW and PURPLE.  

When doing this I used a range of warm and cool purples and yellows to give the image more depth. Before doing this colour scheme I automatically thought it was going to look awful, However I quite like the complimentary effect.

 The downside of this is that the two colours don't really have relevance if i used them for my final piece, and I feel they limit my design.


A N A L O G O U S 


For my analogous colour scheme I decided to use the colours blue, yellows and greens,
I chose this colour scheme as I wanted to get a good range of different colours into my colour scheme to help me figure out what colours worked well together. 


T R I A D I C 

The colours I used for my triadic colour scheme were green, pink and blue. I didn't really like these colours together and fond it very difficult to try and make it look appealing.



Tuesday, 25 March 2014

Polystyrene Print + photoshop (Experiment/Drafting)

I Decided not to further this book cover technique as I was not happy with the effect or quality for something suppose to be on 'the shelves of today' despite this I liked using polystyrene as it was something I hadn't worked with before. 
I then decided to just see what it would look like if I was planning on making this style into a book cover sleeve, I added more grass my lino print and the pocket watch also a polystyrene print.

This is a screenshot of both layers merged together.Once I had done this, I then came to a holt, as I was unsure how to get the detail onto my print, as making facial features proved extremely difficult. Therefore I crew out the outline of my polystyrene print and overlaid it with what I had already done.

TI then built up the layers - colouring them as I went.
Once I'd scanned them in, I then put them together in photoshop and coloured them (shown above)
Firstly I got some polystyrene, drew out the individual parts of my front cover and then cut them out and printed them.
          

Monday, 17 March 2014

Typography - 'dreaming'



From taking inspiration from my mood board, I designed a simple yet 'wonderland' like typeface, using black ink.