This is my favorite page: the Seven Dwarfs' cottage. The creepy grinning figure on the magic mirror is my version of Death from Hellboy II and it holds the red apple that 'kills' Snow White.
Although I felt some of the assignments in Digital were rushed because we only had five weeks, the class made me appreciate Photoshop more. Throughout the entire class I had a distinct image or look I was going for on Photoshop but I could not get it to work until the very end of the class (funny how things work out like that). What I was striving for was a print "painted with patterns or textures". The cartoon show "Chowder" on Cartoon Network uses the same idea: all of the characters' clothes have patterns on them and as the character moves across the screen more of the pattern is revealed (as if the character's shirt is moving along the pattern). It's hard to explain...
Bellow, is my first attempt at paste-ing in patterns. The assignment behind this print was to create four prints using scanned images or things. I scanned in cool different textures (knitting, cloth, metal hair clip) for all of the different parts of the elfin knight's armor and background. I also collaged sketches of faery creatures in the background. After this was done, I still didn't feel satisfied!
This is just another of the scanned prints.
This one bellow is the one that finally worked out!
So what I ended up doing was scanning in a line drawing that I had done in pen and on that scanned image I copied and pasted textures or photos into each of the distinct shapes of the drawing.
If I had figured out my idea earlier, I would have tried to make more prints using the same technique.
