week 7

Craft: First I needed an object or objects, so I choose a iron. My rules were to use lines, using the dry brush 7 tool. This brush stroke gives it a waxy look to it. Also I used the same object for every illustration. But I positioned them in different ways. With these three illustration I used similar colors to the actual iron, but I did change the colors in the other two illustrations. My stroke thickness was at times a three but in other times a two. In every illustration I started from the bottom up.

Composition: I arrange my illustrations the way I did, because I wanted to make it look some what like an iron. I worked bottom up so some of the colors can over lap each other.

concept: To be honest I don't have a concept I needed something to illustrate, so I looked around the room and I found an iron. But with the new version of our style illustration I was able to add things to the illustration, which gave me a concept, but in order to understand the concept one must see the updated versions.

Week 6

With this illustration I just filled in everything with white and I gave it a thick Charcoal stroke. To make it look like a sketching. Lastly I filled in the background black. I choose only the two colors to give it that plan and sketch look to it. I call it Vanished.

This being my favorite reproduction. I Changed the background to a purple. Than I used the pen to make the thunder bolts. To give it more light I used the gradient on the purple background mixing it with a white. So the white part of the gradient is right in the middle of the thunder. I changed the backboard, because the thunder would reflect off the metal board. I believe this illustration made my concept stronger, because this hoop and shoes don't look old and rusty to give it that abandonment. So the thunder does because it will keep the kids off the court. I call this one Thunder!

With this one I changed the composition the most. I just wanted to make it fun and colorful. I didn't used a specific color scheme. I just used bright colors. When it came to the shoes I wanted to make them the same but different at the same time. So I just did everything opposite of the other shoes. For example the sole of the bottom shoe is orange so for the top shoe I made it orange. I call this one High Hoops

Week 5

Craft: When I was tweaking it, I smoothed out the circular shapes. Like the rim and the lace holes. I also used the gradients tool on the backboard. Also on the lace holes to make it look more shiny. As the professor suggested I added some clouds to the background to give it a background, not only a gray color. I used the feather tool on the clouds so they can fade into the gray. I like how that turned out.

composition: When I used the gradient tool on the backboard, I made it lighter on the bottom, because the light from the camera hit the bottom of the backboard. I place a couple of clouds throughout the picture to show that that is all sky behind the hoop.

Craft: Its shoes in a basketball rim. Which is trying to say abandonment, that people haven't been playing on this playground.

Week4

Craft: I worked from the back to the front. Doing the background first the sky than the backboard after that came the rim itself and the things that attach the rim to the backboard. Since the one shoe is in the net I did that shoe next and than came the toughest part. The chain net consisted of the most layers of the whole picture. I did each link of chain individually, which took a lot of time. Lastly I did the lower of the two shoes last. I traced everything with the pen and tried to use the same colors as the real picture. To do that I used the eye drop tool which worked pretty well. So I tried to make it as identical as I can to the real picture.

Composition: When I took the picture I put one shoe hanging in the net and one out of the net, so it can just freely hang there. I took the picture from that angle so I can just get the basketball hoop and the gray sky.

Concept: That it's a abandoned playground, that kids don't play there like they used to. The gray colors I feel really give it that feel of abandonment.