Brief Two: Opposites

Ready for the second session, in our brief we were told to draw sets of opposites, things such as fire and ice, cat and mouse etc. As well as this we were also told to bring in various collage material to help not only inspire us for design ideas but to also give us more material to use within our final outcome. here are a few scans of both the drawings I created of opposites and a few of the scans I thought would be useful for the task (below).

To start off the piece I used the poly magnetic cut out tool to cut around the floral pattern from one of my scans to create an overall background for the image, then using my own drawings I then cut out the skull to use as the main center for my image. Changing the levels of the image to make the skull look darker by increasing the contrast on the image, it made the skull look older and more realistic, giving a dark outlook on the image to contrast the floral background. To follow with this, I then started to use my scan of tree branches to develop the main background surrounding the skull. Moving on then to bring more of a deathly feel to the image. I then began to build up the skull more by making the branches darker so they look as though they are growing from its eyes to bring out the contrast between life and death.

As a final outcome, I believe it has met the objectives of the brief and has turned out really well. I like how I have managed to capture the small detail in the branches in how they grow from the skulls eyes. I think that given the time I could have developed this more and maybe even changed the individual branches to flow around the image. Instead of only having the odd few dotted around the outside of the image. Or maybe making the border of the image darker getting lighter towards the skull to give an ironic contrast to the light towards the skull leaving the floral background to be darker. representing the opposites of life and death that I have portrayed in this image.