Adam Turman Emulation

 After copying a piece of Turman's work I decided to create my own piece for an album cover. I chose an image of a baby through references of lyrics within indie songs as well as babies on album cover such as Nirvana.

I did some drawings before I started my piece.

I first copied an image I found on the internet and emphasized it's features. I then inked the image and moved the inked picture around to change the framing.

 

I experimented with the t-shirt so that it would have a similar style to Turman with the contrasting black and white.

Once I scanned in my work, I adjusted the threshold so that there were just light and dark area.

I then separated the image into to layers so that I could adjust them individually

I then placed them into a new documents and adjusted the size and space of the images

I then used then used the pen tool to select around the baby where I wanted to colour.

I looked at a range of colours. I liked the lime green colour due to the contrasts and warm colour.

 

Drafts

Album Cover

These are my drafts, I used two of my previous scamps that I liked. I developed them until I felt that I would be happy to create them as a final piece. I used water colours to add tone within the drafts.

Album Sleeve

Colour Schemes

I also coloured the in Photoshop to evaluate what kind of colour scheme I wanted

Triadic Colour Scheme 

Analogous Colour Scheme

 Complementary Colour Scheme

From this I will probably try to have an analogous or complementry colour scheme as it makes the illustration more abstract adding to the bands name "The Alternatives".

Vector

From my expermentation with Mediums I felt I needed to look at vectors which I made in Illustrators. I first looked at a 2D vector which I felt looked good in childish view point.

I then made the image 3d by adding shading creating depth.

Logo Design (Typeface)

My emulation was not as great as I wanted because of the sans serif typeface. I decided to improve this by creating my own script type. 

I used pinterest to look at chunky script typefaces as will as other band logos

Follow Joey Mcaleese's board Typeface on Pinterest.

I first Brainstormed different brush strokes within letters.

 I then neatly inked out every letter in lower case and capitals. I did the typeface twice so I could choose the best.

Once I scanned in typeface, I altered the threshold and removed the white. This allowed me to easily move the letters into a new document.

I then placed both my capitals and lower case into one document so that it was more appealing. I grouped them into rows so that the document could edited and be moved.

This is my final piece. I like this due to the contrasting line size caused by the brush. It could be developed further by maybe trying out vectoring.

Typeface in Emulation

I felt my emulation did not portray the artist due to the sans serif typeface so after producing my own I placed it back into my emulation.

From my typeface, I placed this in photoshop I used a variety of caps and lower case to create the unique logo as well as contrasting the words in black and white.

I then placed this on my previous emulation and experimented on how I the text could be seen. The top left seemed to have too much white space where as the bottom two used white space but were hard to view. I felt the top right was the most appealing as it contrasts with the grid drawing attention towards the Logo.

I then edited with colour making some of the text green and some black.

I still did not enjoy this as the text conflicted with the inked drawing. I therefore created a perimeter around the typeface.

Here is the final product.

Further Colour schemes

I decide on the alien album cover due it's unique style. From my previous experimenting I looked a complementary colour schemes, due to the space context I felt that blue and orange worked best for it's context.

Album Sleeve

Final Draft

Here is a final draft of my piece. I will be using an orange and blue colour schemes and my medium will be a screen print using photoshop to create my 3 colours.

Designing Screen Print

From one of my scamps ideas I then drew separate parts of my album. This allowed me to experiment on how I want the album to bee seen. I then copied my favourites and developed them until I was happy to ink.

I then inked over the images to create a new page of images.

 Here is my finished ink page that I scanned into photoshop.

I first created a draft of the elements on the page into my layout which I had created earlier for my scamps.

Once I had decided on my layout I then added colour. I did this by adjusting the colour on the scan. I chose a complementary colour scheme as I needed three screens, which are an orange, blue and black layer.

After this I noticed a problem, the orange on the fish tale is that it is above the blue layer which would not be possible in a screen print. I then had to re evaluate colours and see if I could add transparency or the design.

 I then decided to have an orange tale with blue scales. Although this would work on my screen print I felt it seemed messy so thought about oval shaped scales. I also felt like there was to much white space.

I added the scales this really helped with the design. To combat the white space I added strips and dots by creating a pattern in photoshop.

I then created 3 seperate images for each screen in my print.

Black

 Blue

Orange