Final

Refining the final book cover

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  This is my visual process of my final refinement. My initial design gradually becomes more engaging by changing the colour balance, typeface, text size, transforming scale and trying out different text colour and layout. I have also added more smokey texture to the background and more overlay layers to add more depth. Please click […]

Interim Presentation

This is my step-by-step development process for my final image to show in interim. Initially I was going to create the whole image in pencil and watercolour, however I still wanted to add some colouring in digital so that the full image has some depth.

At this stage, with so little time I have decided to work on this image for my final. Adding color balance, hue/saturation, levels for contrast and exposure.

Why watercolour?

I really enjoy doing some traditional drawing so I think it will be my medium for this project and possibly tweak some bits on Photoshop. I have chosen watercolour technique to mimic the notion of strong emotions. Strong emotions such as sorrow, elation, awe and pleasure as well as laughing and yawning may lead to an increased production of tears, or people crying. Hence using watercolour as a technique, I was able to combine the idea of their personal experience through my chosen medium.

So I made some changes for the book cover but I decided to keep the original concept. I think that the second idea (the close up of the nurse with poppies all around her) is much stronger than the first idea. The feedback I got so far was it was more feminine and that the main subject in the foreground, which is the nurse needs to look more of a nurse.

Reference:

The iconic poppies

Nurse:

Mock Up

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New Zealand Art

These images above are paintings by New Zealand artists: Gordon Walters, Colin McCahon, Richard Killeen, Shane Cotton and John Pule. These will be my future reference for any existing style/ aesthetic.

Brush

Made my own brush for future experimentation.

Style

These images (by Dean Cornwell, Wyndham Lewis, Charlie Griak, Peter McIntyre and Ivor Hele) show the style I am interested in.

My personal style is quite realistic so I want to incorporate my style with their aesthetic, also considering the art movement from the period.

Art movements from the period 1914-1918

Art movements from 1914-1918

Vorciticism, Cubism, Analytic-cubism, Orphism.