Copy and Emulation 2

This time, I decided to copy from an artist called Mike smith who paints the basic shapes of the design in acrylic paint and then draws the outlines in fine liner. He then places the two together to create a picture.

Firstly, I drew the black outline of the picture in fine liner.

Then I painted the same design in acrylic paint with no outlines for guidance.

I then scanned the outline layer into photoshop and adjusted the threshold making the outline more bold.

Next I scanned the acrylic layer in and adjusted the layers to make it more bold and vibrant. 

Finally, I put the black outline over the top of the acrylic layer to complete the design.

I then started the emulation using the same process.

First i came up with a design that fits in nicely with the contents of the book (i.e. farmyard images) and then drew it in black fine liner. 

I then painted a simple copy of the shapes of the farmyard images in acrylic paint with barely any guidelines. I applied thick layers of paint to create texture in areas such as the cats fur.

I then scanned the image into Photoshop where i adjusted the colours to make them more vibrant and exciting to help appeal to children.

Then i scanned in the ink drawing and adjusted the ink levels using the threshold tool.

Then to create the final image, I placed the ink layer over the acrylic layer and used various tools to pull the acrylic layer into place to fit the ink layer.