With that said, there is something really important about taking a digital picture to the 'next level'. More over, to not be afraid to pull it from the digital world and make it something even more powerful than what a singular tool can do.So I thought that might be nifty to show, since a professor at ARC is teaching a class with this mentality. I feel a bit dorky posting up a school project, but it came out well enough.
So here is an example of what the digital artworks looked like at the end of the computer process:
A decent composition. Three of my friends were awesome enough to pose for me for the series of these. This is Brick. She is powerful to me, and shows that through the initial pose.
All of the gears and such are originally vector graphics I created on my own (There was a tutorial that I grabbed one kind of gear from and then went hog wild. Made about 25 different kinds of gears.) All of the textures are from my own personal stock as well. I feel it is extremely important to use your own stock. It is the very best way to get exactly what you want.
Now, it is a nice image and all, but it looks Photoshopped and in the end, there are hundreds of thousands of people that can this kind of thing. It just takes some decent knowledge of the program.
That is where it comes so important to go back into the traditional world. You can add depth, meaning, concept. While you could do this in Photoshop as well, you have to stop and wonder how strong would the impact be after it has all been printed out?
Here is a picture of the completed pieces - or nearly completed.
From top to bottom, the models are Brittany Baskerville (Type geeks, I know, right!? XD ) , Amanda Johnston and Clair Fischer. Each model was able to bring their own unique energy to the camera. And while I am most certainly no professional photographer, I had a lot of fun pretending I was. And got a lot of amazing photos of all three of them.The images were transfered onto 8x10 canvases that had already been treated with a paint and had gesso cover on parts of the original canvas and paint. Texture was created by scratching away the transfer itself. Then multiple glazes cover each canvas. The border was hand made and custom fit to each canvas. To which two more glazes were used to incorporate the frame into the rest of the artwork.
I had a story in mind for them. But that is the personal side of me. I hope that you can see these - even tiny ones - and get a sense of relation to them. It is always a bit difficult of course because in the end, this is the internet. The color on your monitor is terrible. We both have eye strain from reading things from failblog, I can has cheezeburger, and being rick rolled all night long.
At least this added a bit of variety to the night. :D
~Jess
