Final reflective statement on “Invisible Cities” project

Overall I think that my experience with this project has been extremely challenging but also extremely rewarding. This is due to the fact that it has allowed me to work on my time management skills through completing other tasks alongside the project such as the film reviews. It has also encouraged me to develop my skills further within Photoshop and digital painting through creating concept art and it has also taught me on the many ways in which to follow a brief, which involves a balance of creating artwork that is interesting and artistic but also relies on the words of an Author, with our Author being Italio Calvino. What I would like to improve on next time is working on producing work faster now that I have a better idea of how the course works as a whole. I would also like to work on being less resistant to dive into our given work and work on being less anxious about our given tasks which will be beneficial to my overall working practice.

Art of Anastasia - Invisible Cities

Art of Anastasia by Evelyn Irwin on Scribd

Anastasia - Invisible Cities crit

Anastasia Crit by Evelyn Irwin on Scribd

1, 2 & 3 Point Perspective Excercises

Response 1

Example 1

Response 2

Example 2

Response 3

Example 4

Online Greenlight Review - Invisible Cities by Evelyn Irwin on Scribd

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.

Research on my chosen Concept Artist for the "Invisible Cities" project

Donglu Yu Research by Evelyn Irwin by Evelyn Irwin on Scribd