Final image

This was the final design i submitted. I was fairly pleased with the end result considering my photoshop knowledge it pretty basic. Some bits of the internet images still have white bits of the background image still on them, and i tried to cut around them as closely as possible. This obviously makes the image look quite unprofessional. I do however like the colours i chose in the end, and like how the colourful hand drawn jumper stands out from the darker background. I think the quote is important in helping to get the meaning of the images across to the reader, and they may of not made sense without it.

Here were some possible backgrounds, i posted one up on the group blog without any background colour, as i was unsure what to have, i then posted these 3 versions to get some feedback. Personally i liked the woodgrain background, and it became clear that this was my groups favorite too. The woodgrain was an image from the internet cut and pasted into my image.

development

The inspiration for my final design was taken from Eduardo Recife's work, where he uses a mixture of collage and hand drawn imagery to create unique illustrations. I created the design around a quote from the interview asking him what he dislikes about his appearance, to which he replies ' Sometimes I wish I wasn't so recognisable, so I could observe people like I used to'.

I decided to collage a few disguises onto an image of him to tie in with the quote of not wanting to be noticed, the hat, moustache, colour jumper and the masking tape were all done by hand then scanned in. The grey jumper was material I scanned in, and the glasses with nose and the polaroid were found on the internet.

I then played with colour for the backgrounds as well as writing a shorter version of the quote between the images to make the message more clear.

The first two images were me playing around with positioning on another idea, before i settled for the Polaroid one. I didn't use some of the other ideas, because it may of involved taking too much imagery from the web to use within the collage, and i wanted to try and use as many original images as i could e.g hand drawn elements, scanned in patterns or materials.

This is my favorite idea from some of the initial ideas i have had, i wanted to create my collage using photoshop, because most of my illustrations are usually hand drawn, and this would create more of a challenge for me as well as developing my 'skills'.

Here are some very initial ideas for my collage,,