Friday, 21 February 2014

Reality Is Random

This blog will be about the things I have done for the reality is random brief so far. First I got a piece of A4 paper and got a couple of newspapers and magazines. I began to rip out random pictures and stuck them on the A4 paper to create a collage of random things. This is shown below.


The bit that I used to paint is the things inside the white box. The paint I used was acrylic. I used a mix of colours and used a size 6 brush to paint the large areas and a size 2 brush to get fine lines in the finished painting. I liked using this method of painting as the finished piece come out very well.


Next I used the same area to paint but i used poster paint this time. I didn't like using this paint as it was very runny and I was very limited with the colours. I didn't paint the whole thing because i wanted to move on to the next method of painting.

The next method I used was oil paint on a canvas. First I cut a piece of canvas and stretched it across a wooden frame. I keep it in place by using staples. I then drew a picture on the stretched canvas of a eye on a metal background, then i got a small white board to put the oil paints on. To mix the oil paints I used a pallet knife. I like using this method but it is very messy to use.



Friday, 14 February 2014

Character design for adventure project

This is my character design for my adventure project. It is a cowboy on a WWI horse. I started to make my character on Adobe Illustrator by getting pictures off the internet of cowboys on horses then I added a flamethrower and a horse gas mask from WWI. I then drew a outline of the design to make it look like it was done with a pencil. I also made the background grey. The next part was to start using dark colour tone to give a shiny look to the horses fur. I then started to shade the areas that were dark.