Tuesday, 12 November 2013

Smoking

On the day of the workshop I struggled hugely with this workshop. In my sketchbook were a handful of ideas that I felt were contrived and predictable.
When travelling in London I came across the work that McBess had produced for Travel For London, seen below.


Seeing an illustrator with such a personal style be able to produce public safety posters put a new spin on the subject for me. Although I wanted to focus on the mythological side of the quote, i also felt that with a contemporary twist, the illustration could also be adapted to be used to raise awareness.

The idea of the image came to me almost fully formed. I looked at the work of my favourite artist Stephan Doitschinoff and other pieces of street art for inspiration.

After a small number of sketches i began working A3 size. I scanned in the black line work and worked into it with colour, highlighting the drawing by adding a white border around the image. Below are several different colour variations.









I chose a limited palette, using black, grey and pink. Although happy with these colours, i felt they looked a little flat. After working on the Shelter piece, I considered using benday dots and colour halftone. I converted the colour to colour halftone and felt that this gave the piece a little extra depth and so i felt it was finished. On the screen the dots can be quite disorientating, but when printed A3 the image worked well.
I was very happy with this piece, I felt it clearly showcases my style, whilst using other textures and devices i hadn't experimented much before with.

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