Photoshop Workshop

Today we had a photoshop workshop with our Tutor. Being an Illustrator himself he understands that most art (especially from Illustrators) is often done through using digital software. He showed us how to create images to almost make them look like prints, or to give them an 'edgy' feel. 

He recommended not using white as a background because it makes the colours too bold, he also mentioned that most the time professional illustrators will often using a slightly darker shade to white. 

We were shown how to create some 'printish like' images using photoshop, using a simple 3-4 colour method.

Here are the illustrations I made from the workshop...

I decided to use snakes as my first illustration because of the project we have been working on. I know that this illustration doesn't involve having lace around any of the work, but because I used dragons as my main focus for the project I wanted to stick with the same theme of using reptile like creatures.

I feel that the colours are strong for this piece as I tried to use slightly darker colours to fit the theme of reptile, as you don't normally associate them with brighter colours as they are can be very dangerous creatures. I used blue, a yellowy-orange (I didn't want to use a full bright orange as I felt it might strip away the other colours from the illustration) and purple. The reason the colours are slightly darker than they should be is because we were asked to use the 'multiply' tool in photoshop to make the colours overlap each other, to give it that print feel.

For my second illustration I again used something with scales, so this could fit the theme. I used slightly brighter colours consisting of green, red and purple, as my previous illustration was a little dark.