Transformaton - Motivation and Photoshop

Sorry I havn't blogged on this since November, I'd like to say that it was all due to the lack of internet - we moved house in January and there is literally no internet connection in our new house, sucks - but if i'm being honest it was also due to a lack of motivation. It's funny, because whenever I do begin a blog, i actually get into it, my problem is finding the will to start it in the first place (kind of like when you're trying to read a book; i'm in the middle of one right now, i'm genuinely enjoying it, want to finish it, but at the end of the day after college and working on my illustrations, i'm just like "...Nuh. Wanna watch Smallville instead.") its pure laziness, and getting pretty bad, which is why i'm trying to make a point of doing my blogs properly from now on.

We began working on photoshop for "Specialist Skills" at college a couple of months ago, and it been quite a fun experience so far. For this class our theme is "Transformation" and my theme is based on the transformation of the book/movie/comic "The Last Unicorn", so of course all my work in "Specialist skills" have to link to my chosen theme. When we first began photshop, I just thopught "How the hell am I going to link all this computer stuff to a transforming unicorn," but after my moment of freaking out, I soon realised just how much i could do with photoshop and how amazing the results can be.

These are a couple of water colour paintings I did months ago in my sketchbook, they were actually done on a whim and I honestly wasn't sure what to do with them as they wearn't based on any techniques we'd learned in our workshops. However when we began working on photshop techniques I finally came up with a use for them.

The Unicorn Transforming

 

Amalthea Transforming

I decided to combine the two pictures tegether to properly convey the transformation of the unicorn.

I made this piece by combining the two paintings together and I copied and pasted several pieces (The swirls) again and again so the two paintings look more blended together, also for a more magical transforming look. I really love how this turned out, it kinda looks like a funky tattoo, that or maybe an illustration for a book cover:

 

I genuinely love how this one turned out, and even though the techniques were simple, I like to make I created something extravagent and beautiful.

 

Using this piece (without text), we were told to experiment with colour blending:

 

 

 

Unicorn and amalthea - layer blend cream colour - exclusion

 

 

Unicorn and amalthea layer blend light grey difference - layer blend pink - colour dodge

Unicorn and amalthea - layer blend blue - saturation

 

Unicorn and amalthea - layer blend light grey - exclusion

Unicorn and amalthea - layer blend cream colour - saturation

 

Unicorn and amalthea - layer blend blue - overlay

 

Unicorn and amalthea layer blend light grey difference - layer blend pink - saturation

 

Unicorn and amalthea - layer blend pale pink - difference

Unicorn and amalthea - layer blend blue - hue

 

Unicorn and amalthea - layer blend cream colour - difference

 

 I'm very pleased with how all of these pieces came out, it was a lot of fun playing around with the colours etc. I honestly couldn't say which one I like best, I think they're all good, looking forward to playing around with more drawings of mine.