Friday, 2 December 2011

Well I certainly hate Photoshop sometimes

It's official, years ago I used to love Photoshop, illustrator and dreamweaver now... Pfft

Wednesday there were the strikes meaning college was closed, it didn't phase me because I worked away in my sketchbook getting some drawing done.
On Thursday I spent the whole day getting frustrated over Photoshop and illustrator trying to replicate a concept which would be digitally easier to increase in size. Tried out 4, 5 different ways and I hate the end result. I'm so much more happier with my hand made piece where I cut and reassembled pieces of my texture recording to create a visual piece.
So with the wonders of photocopying I managed to clean up and increase the size of my collage piece. I can then add more detail, more hand drawn elements and more tonal work even. Before photocopying again to acetate.
The reason for this is so I can see how my piece will look on a very large scale by projecting it onto a wall. I also want to make the piece as a screen print which I can then work on some more.

The whole piece of work is building layers all these layers of processes modern and handwork can be thought of towards alloa. Years of handwork, hard graft and work using some modern techniques with historical ways as well. It's what gives alloa its wonderful history of textures which I'm loving.

As of today folks, another day off as our tutor has personal matters to attend to so I'm reading as much information as my brain can handle. Whilst cleaning up after my nightmare of a dog who, within the time its taken me to type this lot up, has destroyed a stuffed toy leaving its fluffy guts everywhere. Time to crack out the hoover again...

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