Artist research: Olivia Salinas

Olivia Salinas is a character designer and illustrator that i found whilst looking on behance. She does drawings for children's books and magazines. You can tell this straight away by the style of them as they are quite simplistic and cute looking. I love the look of her digital illustrations as they have a traditional look to them. I like how soft they are they look like they have been drawn with powder. Below are a few of her illustrations that i really like. 

Artist research: Dominicadesign (minky-munky)

I found this artist whilst searching on deviant art for digital artists. She uses vectors in illustrator a lot, i know we are using Photoshop at the moment but as my pieces use the pen tool a lot, which is similar to illustrator, i thought that this artist was relevant for me to look at. I love the simplicity of her work because it is simple but so bold and effective. I also really like the colour palettes that she uses. Below are some of my favorite images from this artist.  

Digital manipulation: Second image

For my second digital image i decided to develop my first image and experiment with using textures and colours. I decided to execute the piece in a collage style as i thought it would work best for the look i wanted to achieve. I started off using the same image as my first piece as a guide. 

I first drew out the hair and headphones using the pen tool. once it had made a selection i took a texture that i had made earlier in the print room and pasted it into the selection, making a layer mask. I then edited the colour to make it fit the blue and brown colour scheme that i wanted to use. 

I liked how it was beginning to look so i used the same technique for the face and neck jumper and chair. 

To break up all of the textures i created the legs, feet and the legs of the chair using block colour. I decided to go with blue for the legs and brown for the feet. I created them the same way as the rest of the image, using the pen tool. 

I then added in the table and the background of the wall and floor to add a bit of depth to the image. I decided ot break the colour scheme for the wall and floor to draw more attention to the main focus of the image.

I had to put some posters on the wall infront of the girl so i made some silly little posters with funny characters on them. I decided to break away from the colour scheme on these images as well as i thought it would look better. 

Finally i decided to add a frame to the piece to finish it off. I decided that this would bring the image together more. 

Below is my second final image. 

I am really happy with how theis image turned out. I think if i was going to improve it the only thing that i would do differently is use less textures as it looks a bit texture heavy. Other than that i am happy with the piece.

19th September: Drawing people

Here are a few drawings of people in class. We started off drawing our own hands we were only allowed a few seconds for each drawing so they were pretty bad. Then we moved on to doing quick sketches of other people in the class. The amount of time we had for each sketch changed every time so some are better than others. I have included a few different sketches below.