Anastasia Developmental digital paintings

Photoshop Digital Painting - Tonal Value and Perspective

For today's lesson of Digital Painting. we focused on the impact of tonal value and how it helps judge perspective through colour and detail. We also explored how creating abstract concept work helps rejuvenate any creative block. We also worked on warping and remoulding our Digital abstract work in order to test how altering the shape and focusing on certain segments of work may allow the viewer to see something that is recognisable.

Tamara Thumbnails 

Abstract experimental thumbnails 

Warped thumbnails

Photoshop planning techniques for Invisible Cities

In our photoshop class we learnt learned about the importance of planning in terms of creating digital artworks for our chosen cities. We watched a series of short films and animations that portrayed the approaches of using techniques such as:

• Value perspective and tonal range
• Balance and stability
• Symmetry
• Composition and framing
• Points of interest using rule of thirds 
• Leading lines

Our task was to first to create a note page based on our task to create more thumbnails for one chosen city. The city that I chose to use was Anastasia, as due to still being unsure of my final chosen city, I wanted to see whether the city of Anastasia would allow me to come up with more ideas and variety than the other cities available.

Anastasia city description

Visual Library research page

Drawings based around the concrete description of Anastasia 

Thumbnails based on the environment 

We first had to create a word stack, which meant that we had to write down the initial key words that provided key details about the city. We then had to find imagery as a source for hand drawing and digitally drawing our thumbnails to create a visual library, along with create a selection of digital thumbnails as a form of practice.