It took me along time to complete this assignment. One reason for that is I painted the scene as individual objects so that I was less likely to make mistakes and have to redo the whole thing. I did redo the guitar once and the girl a few times before I was happy with it. The second reason being that I am only just learning how to use photoshop, which is quite a challenge as I can never remember what tool does what. To fix this problem, today I started writing down what tools do what and what different short cut commands do. The laptop I’m using is very out of date so unfortunately it can’t run illustrator, which I’m told is the on I should be using.

Because of these technicality’s I ended up not adding as much as originally intended in my original sketches. I also wasn’t able to colour the background which I think would have looked better. However I am still happy with my effort. I am keen to move on now and start afresh as I was spending far too much time on this one, getting stuck too many times along the way.

I used watercolour for these drawings, I first drew each item and when I was happy with it traced it on to the A3 watercolour paper. I placed all of the items in the same sheet and then cut them out after. This way I could be sure the colour palette and paint style matched.

I then scanned them and used photoshop cc to resize and layer the images. The words in the window was born from a happy my mistakes and experiments in photoshop. I’d had an error where the background was not working correctly and was not layering in the correct order, therefore partially concealing the things in front. I thought I’d try duplicating the effect but layering in an order that meant that the words remained hazy and by changing the opacity and having the right font, looked like the words were written on the window like condensation. After I was finished editing I sent it to Moonpig the online card retailer and got my image printed out as a card which I will be posting to my tutor. I do like the colour palette in this one. I tried to keep to just a few colours and to keep it simple.

After I did this however I realised I forgot to talk about what mediums I like to use etc. My fault for rushing though the final part. But I was keen to move on, as I have spent far too long stuck in my first module.