Michaela Niesen, Zombie Apocalypse, Photoshop, April 2, 2015.
Technical
When creating this piece, I used the elements of Photoshop
to help bring the art together, make it flow smoothly, and attempt to tell a
story. I found images online, than used the quick selection, crop, and lasso
tools to select the parts of the images I want. I used adjustment layers to put
overlays on each image, to make it work with the 3D imagery colour
combinations. I changed the opacity and the intensity of the colours of each
image to help keep the eye moving around the piece. I used the burning tool to
help make areas darker, to help layers stand out, and avoid being ‘fuzzy’. I used
a lot of different brushes, to help make repetitive images, and create a large
amount of layers, showing depth, and making the 3D more intense.
Idea or Concept
When creating this piece, I started off the idea of the cliché
zombie apocalypse, but also using the mostly the idea of what it would look
like, more than focusing on the zombies themselves. My idea did change as I progressed,
but not too significantly. I added things that I did not originally plan, such
as rain and clouds, but I feel they help the art tie together.
Influences
There was no artist that influenced my art significantly.
Composition
When creating this piece, I used symmetrical techniques to
help balance out the images, so it’s not to content heavy on one side compared
to the other. For example I have the man with the shotgun on the left, and a
large building on the top right. To keep the image flowing, I left images out
of the center, to keep the eye moving around the piece, so you don’t get caught
up in one image. I also made the images large and small, opaque and transparent,
to help keep the eye moving. It keeps interest in the piece, so the viewer
doesn’t look at one corner and get bored of it. I used the colour combinations
for 3D to help make it intense, keeping the important at the front, and
compliments in the back. These concepts work together as a whole to keep the
piece interesting, and not bore the viewer after looking at it once.
Motivation
When creating this piece, I had the personal motivation to
show the viewer what could possibly happen. I wanted to get the viewer to
understand the outcome of an apocalypse of this degree, how it would destroy
our world, and what any survivor would have to live with, and share the new
world with. I wanted the viewer to understand everything would be started from scratch,
which people would now have to appreciate what they have, and be grateful for
what is available to them. I feel that people don’t appreciate what they have
today, and everyone would be in a big change if something like this was to
occur.
Critical Assessment
I feel that the most interesting and successful parts of
this piece are the rain and cloud layers. I like how these layers stand out on
top, and show the distance and depth in the piece. I feel the way it sits on
top of the piece helps it flow, and showing depth, that the rain is close, and
other images sit in the distance. I was surprised with how the art came
together, how it flows, even with the somewhat distracting smoke in the front. With
additional time, I would have attempted to fix the smoke layers, and made more
black sections to help things pop.
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