Assignment 1
Creative Portrait
Siobhan O'Connor
Final Piece
The aim of this assignment was to produce a cover feature for Creative Review that shows how we produce work in our chosen field. It is meant to reflect an aspect of my personality and my approach to work.
Above is the proposed cover that was chosen.
But in order to show my approach to the way that I produce my illustrations , I decided to explore the magic avenue to show how colour is used in the work. Also I explored the light painting technique to show illustrations emerging from the magic ball or mass in the hands.
In order to produce the magic effect , I explored photoshop tutorials on creating a nebula space effect that could be adapted to create magic. I decided to use glowsticks to create the magic effect for the mass in the hands.
Final Creative Review Cover Piece
Aspect Approaching: Colour in illustration work
Model: Myself as it is exploring how I approach my illustration work
Posing: hands cupped so that the fingertips are visible and my eyes closed facing down towards my hands
Wardrobe: White t-shirt to counteract against the dark background
Backdrop : Dark so the light paintings can show up brighter up in the foreground
Techniques used: Light painting using Glowsticks and laser pens
Technical Elements
Lighting: from the side highlighting the left hand side of the face
Camera: Nikon
Action: The shot took from 30-40 minutes
There were 30 pictures taken and I chose 6 of them to follow up which lead to 3 being chosen for producing 3 different mocks to test how the layout would work