My Mixed Media !!!!

this was my mixed piece, it has come together in a very weird but amazing way, and the end result was unplanned i wanted to experiement and play around with new materials and see where it took me and i just gave it a go, to me that made the end piece even better not knowning how it was going to come out.

i have already explained alot about the piece and the thought process as you can see from the picture, but i wanted to add about the fact that it was completly unplanned and how somehow the most beautiful things do come from the unknown, it was a way for me to come out of my comfort zone and go with what felt right, and that for me has been a learning curve and i would definitly do it again in the breife for it.

My Own Stitching !!!!

this piece was another way for me to experiement and also try something new. i have explained alot already in the picture, but for me this is something that i definitly want to consider for my album also because it will add texture and i dont know of any CD covers that have texture and 3D elements about them, it will definitly help make the cover stand out.

it took a lot more time to complete then first thought, but the end result was definitely worth it and for me the colors represent love and summer for example the reds and blues, red for love and also the heat of the summer and the blue for the blue sky's and the cream is a very neutral color and most people like to wear bright and light colors in the summer and that is why i thought it would be good to use them.  

but this is definitely something i want to use in the album cover.

still life of my summer album !!!!

this was my still life that i created as part of my summer album, and as most of the explanation is in with the picture and drawing of it. i love the way it has turned out and also i would definitly do this again and work with still life more, i think it has a very editoral look about the image, and that was my aimed i wanted it to look professional and look as if it was a company putting together the items and arranging everything for the final photo for the cover and i get that sense when i look at this picture which tells me that I've achieved what i set out to do.

the negative that i would say about this still life is next time i would like to add more objects into the photo to make the scene look busier as in the real life it would be very crazy with a lot going on, so i would add more to make it more realistic to the image and message i was trying to portray from the still life, but overall i think it has worked really well and the effect has still come across in the photo. 

Drawing!!!

my drawing of the guitar was to show the musical instruments that are used to make the music and not just the singers themselves and the reason that i wanted to do a guitar was because nearly any song can be played on it and the sound can be changed so much all from that one instrument so to me it represented all the songs on the album which is what made me realize that it was a great choice.

i dont normally like doing drawing as they are not my favorite thing to do, but this has turned out really well and i think the effect shows a simpisty about it which also stands for the music aswell because the tracks are about summer but they are also about simple things in life and happy times which in life we enjoy the most and it shows the simple and happy times people go through

doing this drawing has improved my drawing skills and iv gained more practice in improving that skill, it has also made me start to really like drawings as i normally don't choose to do drawing but this has changed my view and also a drawing combined with another maybe more colorful or edited piece would create a great mixed media piece,

MY cheryl collage....

this was a collage that i did of cheryl cole, and the reason that i chose this photo was because the whole original photo itself reminded me of summer and it had a relaxed feel to it which made me want to use it as it the backdrop for my collage as it fitted into my summer album also the artist cheryl cole is an artist that i want to use on my album.

i see the strips on the collage which i created from cutting different pages of a magazine and sticking them on, the reason i wanted to do this was because it reminded me of a flash from the camera thats also in the picture and not only that but each strip shows a memory and a photo that was taken. the lips as iv already said in the photo add effect but also it shows the gossip as people share summer memories. thats why i think that this collage worked so well because it has so meaning and screams summer which is what i wanted.

i would definitely use this method again as i think that it works really well and also is a way of expressing my thoughts behind my vision in the best way and i can make it very expressive and it work, this is my favorite part of making a collage.

vector !!!!!

Miles donovan is well known for his illistartion work, and has many clients around all different parts of the world. this is a vector portrate that he's done, which is part of his many designs and I think that this is really good. 


the reason I wanted to look at this kinda of design and experiments was because iv never done this before and from looking at Miles work I really wanted to try it for myself. the colours are amazing and bright which is the theme for my summer album which makes it even more attractive to me for me to try out. 


this design also reminds me of rock and role, with the spry paint, and the block colours really changes the look of the picture which is amazing. 

this was the artist the I chose to use for my own vector design, the reason I chose Keri Hilson, was because she has allot of songs that have the dance summer feel, and also she represents females and powerful female which is also what I want my album to represent. 


also her picture are most portrate which was very useful when creating my vector, because its easiest to create when the image is in portrate form, and also i want the image to show power and to me this image showed power all over which is what made me want to choose it. 







this was my final vector image, but I didn't follow the exact way to create the vector the reason for this was because I wanted to make my vector a little different and also I had come across problems when trying to complete the vector so I used my knowledge of illustrator to play around and re arrange the steps and make some new ones to get my final completed image.  the first image you can see is the first attempt that went wrong as you can see the vector image has no face and doesn't look clear, but this was an experiment and from this out come i worked out a way i could change it and improve it make it look like a vector.

to get to my final image, I had to put my image into Photoshop and then first change the blur of it with smart blur, I then had to change it so I got an image that had about 3 clear colours in it, that changed the original image to something I could work with to make a vector. what I then had to do was make up separate layers for each colours, once id done that I had to go over every colour with the pen tool and do the same for each layer, once id done that I had to hide the original the image and start to block colour each different layer with a separate colour. then finally show all the layers apart from the background layer to create a vector image, only mind didn't work so well (as shown in the image above) as when id shown all the layer my vector didn't have a face to it, so after rethinking what id done, I then went and tried to also show the background layer and this then helped show the face details, and all I simply had to do was go back and add a few extra unplanned layers such as more detail to the hair to make it look like hair, I also had to add a layer for the eyes and some of the face, it was just a case of keep on adding and checking until id managed to create a vector image that also made sense. 


my best part of this image was adding the background image, that was the part that worked the best because that allowed me to create a successful image, I also really like the block colours and I think that the final outcome worked really well, I also liked the colours, I think they all complement each other and I would use 
this image on my summer album as I think it works really well and complements the theme of my album. 


the things that didn't work so well was the fact that it didn't work well when I first tried to create the image, if I had more time I would keep working on the image and I would also want to add more detail such as spray paint in the background and more detail on the image. but overall I think that it worked really well. and I would definitely use this for my summer album.

Digital Screen Printing !!!!!!!

this is a digital screen print, that someone has done, for a band called the bronx, it was done to advertise the bands tour dates, it has been done by using different images of humans and of an animal.

to me i think that this would be good to use for my album cover because i like the way that they have taken a never seen before image and made it look normal, and i think that the face that you don't see it very often is what makes it catch peoples eyes and makes people want to look more and that is the techniques i have been looking for and i think that this one is one of the best.

this is the image that i chose for my poster the reason for this was because i wanted to firstly pick an image that matches my summer album and when i saw this image not only was it an artist that i have chosen on my album track list but also the image itself looks like summer, it looks like its hot there and like she is chilling from the sun which is what brought me to pick this image. 

i then had to get an image to go with my body image, i chose a lioness the reason for this is because to me Beyonce is strong and has a power that comes along with her which is why i knew that a lioness would be perfect for her. 

this was the final image that i came out with, and i think that it looks amazing, and also what i think works really well is the body looks like it should match the lion, the whole poster screams attitude and you still get the scene of summer by the pose of the body. 

to do this after id got together all my images i had to put them all into photoshop, i first had to work on the body, this involved changing the colour of the image and making it into grey scale and changing the colour levels and gradient to make it look like we had printed the image. i then had to take out the head of Beyonce to allow it to be replaced by the lioness head and this was the part that i liked the most, after the image had started to become together i had to put a block colour into the background by creating a new layer then recoloured in the body to a white colour on the other layer to get this separate colour. then by playing around with the different colours levels to make it look more of a print, i then in the final stage added type.

 i chose a colour that would stand out and the colour yellow reminded me of the sun and had that effect of warmth, also the bright pink made me think of summer clothes and how most clothes have bright colours, also the colours really make the black with the detail stand out and that is what i was keeping in mind when creating this. 

if i was to do this again i would take more time when adding the flames, because that is what i had the most trouble with, so i f i had more time id want to go back over that, but for me that is the only thing that i would improve because the end image came out better than expected and i think that it worked really well. i would also add more text with more time, by making the image have more background to it would allow me to add more text and detail. but overall it was amazing and turned out a lot better than expected.