Brief 4: Drawing and Painting in Photoshop

In preparation for this session, we were asked to go on a walk around Worcester and take photographs and sketch any form of architecture that we found interesting. These photographs could include anything from the various structures both old and new around Worcester as you can see in my own photographs below i attempted to capture both old and new structures within my images to create a wide range in choice when it came to my digital paintings.

As well as taking photographs of the various sights around town, I also started to sketch a few of the main structures that caught my eye. This then resulted in this scan of my sketch of part of a detailed pilar supporting the nightclub 'Tramps". In this sketch I attempted to capture the changes in shadow by using bold colours hoping to help influence me in my digital paintings later on.

During the development of this painting I was very pleased with how I handled using a graphics tablet for the first time, finding it hard at first as I began to experiment with the different brushes and testing out how I was going to layer up each colour for the image. Despite this I was very pleased with how my final image looks.

After making the various changes to my work I found that I was happy with how I presented my final image. Especially with how the contrasting colours that were although, quite bold and very different from the original image worked really well as a whole. Although the brush I used created a very blurry effect I found this made it looks very ominous without the original line layer form my drawing.