Composition - 3 Elements

COMPOSITION: 3 Elements task

Create an image with the following...

1. Figure

2. Object

3. Landscape

I also had to position each of these elements in the fore, mid or background of the frame.I produced initial pencil sketches within an A7 frame, then developed the one with most potential into a final A5 format.

INITIAL SKETCHES

Featuring Woody (a famous cowboy) and how he has been 'dispatched' 

by a native american indian (not shown but possibly famous).

After working on a set of rough potential compositions,and getting fairly far into it i decided that i should create something that was actually by me - as Woody was created by someone else i felt i was cheating or taking a short cut somehow. It was looking quite fun, so i may pick it again in the future as a personal project.I was also putting pressure on myself to make him look realistic. He's a friggin' make-believe CG cowboy,man?!

I opted for a less busy composition this time - and as i'd made the design u-turn quite late in the day it would also be less time consuming in order to make the deadline

After producing the final layout i inked my line work, scanned it in and coloured it using panels of brusho paint texture (see below).  A rookie at using it,I'd been experimenting in the studio after-hours to see what random patterns i could produce and also to how much i could control the paint flow. Turns out its really hard to stick to specific line work and even with masking tape it was getting a bit messy looking for what i had in mind. So i scanned in several squares of Brusho and used it them to make a digital collage. 

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Texture & colour test

Finished versions

I was pretty happy about how using the brusho layer had turned out, within the the mask in-particularly . As it was my first time using this paint for anything i was worried there might be a bit too much texture happening. Looking at it after completion it turns out I'm not too happy with my line work - the hair feels a bit static and heavy, like wind would struggle to blow through it.I should've noticed this at the pencil stage, but it became much more noticeable after the colour was added. It still turned into a bit of a drawn-out process in the end, putting everything into photoshop and working on it from there, without a definfinate idea of how i wanted the final result to look.