Evaluation

Final Piece

This is the final piece for my as graphics exam. it is a much more detailed and perfected version of my draft, but it as created in much the same way as my copy, emulation were. throughout the design process i used different sheets of paper to draw on in order to give me some more freedom of the positioning of different features e.g. moving the hobbits to a place that worked better with the proximity of the titles and graphics.

Colour Schemes

these are 4 different colour schemes i have re-coloured my draft with in order to see which one is the most effective....

Analogous.

Complimentary.

Monochromatic.

Triadic.

Draft

Tis is the draft for my final piece,have based it on one of the scenes from the lord of the rings movies and books. the scene is where the hobbits first see the ring wraith for the first time and hide under the root of a tree. in my draft i wanted to show this sense of fear and worry in the hobbits faces while also  making the scenery of the picture seem erie and uncomfortable.

Emulation

This is the emulation i have created which is a piece that i have created in the style of the artist that i copied. This emulation was created much the same ways my copy.

To begin with, I drew the main outline of the picture on a sheet of A3 paper in pencil...

The next  step was to trace the pencil line using an ink brush pen and the light box. I decided at this point to ink the fire and the main body of the creature (Balrog) seperatly onto two pieces of A3 paper...

once i had completed the ink trace, it was time time scan it into photoshop and get colouring. i started off by using the paintbrush tool to colour the wizard Gandalf first, mainly because he was the closest to the foreground of the picture and it gave me a good idea then of how to colour the Balrog...

after finishing Gandalf, i moved onto adding colour to Frodo on the back page of the cover...

Then, I created a new photoshop document and edited the fire that I had inked separately. I altered the threshold and got rid of the white background, then i hit command on the keyboard and clicked the thumbnail of the layer the fire outline was on, this highlighted the black lines with a dotted outline which then meant i could use the paintbrush tool to directly recolour the back line to red, yellow and orange, and make it look more like fire...

It was then time to add this new fire to the real image..

After adding the fire to the image, i then needed to the same process of colouring the lines on the whip...

Now, for the bridge and jagged cave wall that Gandalf is on, i wanted to colour it a dark brown colour   with a shadow being cast from gandalf but i wanted it to make the colour fade into the background. so i decided to use the polygon lasso tool to draw a shape for where i wanted colour, and then used the gradient tool to fill it with colour that faded at the edges...

once i had completely filled the bridge and wall with colour, and was happy with the result, the picture was beginning to take shape. so now it was imd to add colour to the Balrog its self. I did the same as i did to colour Gandalf and the hobbit Frodo, and used the paintbrush tool to add in different layers of colour to show shading and light...

At this point i added a black background that would make the fire and characters stand out and show off the whole images dark and car like feeling that i had been aiming for...

Then, for the last part that was needed to do, i needed to colour the "The Lord Of The Rings" text at the top of the image. i decided to go with the classic golden/yellowy colour with a outer glow to make it stand out from the rest of the page...

And after completing the text, the picture was finished...

Copy

This peace of work is a copy of a piece of lord of the rings art that I found on the internet. The picture is of the entire fellowship of the ring and was originally created using digital art software.

For my copy, I started off by drawing the characters in pencil on a piece of A3 paper...

After drawing the copy in pencil, I took it to the light box and traced the pencil lines on another sheet of A3 paper using a ink brush pen. The ink brush pen gave a brilliant cartoony effect to the lines of the drawing which was what I wanted to achieve ...

Once I had finished the Ink lines, I scanned the picture into photoshop for partial editing and colouring. I coloured the ink lines by altering the threshold on photoshop and then deleting the white background. then i created new layer underneath the line drawing and used the paint brush tool to add colour...

 As I coloured the copy, I started from Frodo at the bottom and made my way along the page to Gandalf at the top right... then moved on across the other half up towards Aragorn in the top left...

after the characters were coloured I then needed to colour the ring in the middle and the text inside the ring...

Once I had finished the inner circle of the image, I had finished the main colouring of my copy. All that was left to do at this point was the background. I added a blue piece of sea just behind the main characters, and a red to yellow gradient to simulate a sun setting sky...

These last two photos are the finished result compared to the original piece of art...

(original).

(my copy).

I am Happy with my finished copy, and I am going to use the same style of drawing and colouring in my emulation.

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