Evaluation

Evaluation

 I originally was going to create a Andy Warhol style portrait of myself but I got half way through making it and really didn't like it. During the project I did struggle a lot because I had never had any previous experience with Photoshop and I found it quite confusing and difficult to figure out. But after a few weeks I got enough basic skills using Photoshop to figure it out. When I came up with my book cover idea I thought very simply because I didn't understand Photoshop very well. Mandy had previously taught us how to use a brown paper effect which is a image covering another and change the opacity so you can see the photograph underneath. I used this technique but I made my own overlaying picture. When making my overlaying picture I found various different photographs of things I liked I changed them all to black and white because I prefer darker colours. Then I cropped them into different sized triangles and fitted them together like a jigsaw and I used the brown paper technique to change the opacity of my overlaying picture so you could see a photograph of myself underneath.

Action Plan

Action Plan

If i was to continue this project I would totally change my book cover even though I really like my final on. I would take a more artistic approach and use my artists research more to achieve this. If I did a second book cover I would want to make it more artistic. for example I would use the portrait of myself in acrylic paint and scan it into the computer and merge it with a picture of myself to give it more of a painting feel instead of mostly been done with Photoshop. I think I would be able to complete a good second book cover within 4 or 5 weeks in the graphics class.

jonathan yeo

 In the early 1920's while recovering from Hodgkin's disease Yeo taught himself to paint. He became know in the 2000's because of his lifelike portraits of famous actors, comedians and politicians. People like Dennis Hooper, Rupert Murdoch and actress Minnie Driver sat for Yeo.
In 2005 London's National Portrait Gallery held his painting of Erin O'Conner. All Yeo.s paintings look very lifelike this is why I like them.

Rosa Fedele

 Rosa Fedele
Fedele does her work in many different medias such as pencil, charcoal, conte crayon and pastel. But she prefers to do most of her work in oils because she thinks they are more classical.