Experemental

After using the cat i thought i could use part of him in another design so i took the heart out of the cat to use in a new creation (down bellow)

I then thought back to an artist Called Nevile brody who did a amazing final piece for the company Nike using a picture and diffrent styles, size and shades of fonts. So i looked at his picture (down bellow)

and inspired by this picture i decided to do something like this so opened up photoshop and made the heart as the picture. I then put the word STOP over the heart and edited the propeties of the font by changing the title so it has a drop shadow. I also thought blackening the background would be a good idea out half of the background.

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I found this image on the world wide web and i noticed it was quite amazing to look at and i really liked the way the cat is presented. The character is Felix the cat one of Walt Disneys very old characters.  i had a thought about using this and was thinking to myself i could use this in my project so i started to sketch the figure.

Using my sketch pencils i came up with this. the bandage was to show the animal being hurt but later when i scanned this into photoshop i realised i could do so much more. So i scanned this image into photoshop and went over the image in black paint brush and did the outline etc then i made the body out of scratch, i came up with this.

I then went onto Experement with this particular idea and added things into the picture that i thought resembled cruelty.

Using Google i found intresting cartoon shaped bones and organs and using this i added it into my design but in a unique way. this is what i came up with.

As you can see there is only a minor change but i have made the picture fit in more with the Design against fur as his entire ear is ripped off but in a cartoon styled way. i then decided to add to this and using google i found a cartoon heart and a few pipes and fitted them into his chest like so.

As you can see the Cartoon has now got suffering and miesery inside of him. I like this as Its another way to express cruelty but in a more immature way and not so serious as some people don't like too serious things they would just walk away etc.

I decided to write some text in to see if it would make the point more clear and understandable for the person wearing the t shirt.

When i was looking at a artist called David Carson, i liked the way he used the text fonts and sizes in his final pieces so played around with the font a tiny bit and made the bottom line of text smaller than the top so it gives a artistic effect.

Using photoshop i played around with the image properties and gave the cat a drop shadow with a blurry background, i used black as it is a colour that in media colour coordinates mystery, same as the red in the eye but red colour coordinates suffering, pain, anger and violence 

I saw a tool in Photoshop called gradient and i wondered what it did so i used it and tweaked the colours and came up with this.

Again using the same tool i repeated the pattern and got this rainbow effect.

I Decided the gradient shape i was using was to over the top so i went for a coloured square and put the gradient in and if you look to the right of the picture its a lovely little spiral of colours which also fills the background with colours from the spiral which i think gives a brilliant effect of bright colour and light to the picture.

Development ideas

When i was looking for a picture for cruelty i was thinking maybe i could just use a normal image and expand it so i went onto google and found a image of a cat (picture bellow)

i was thinking i could use this in my work quite well as it is very well produced, being the way the cat is shaped and the way the eyes are really eye catching, so i went back onto the internet and found this unusual design.

I really liked it so inspired by this particular piece i decided to take the eye and the idea of another story going on in the background into a water coloured sketch/ drawing. I then cut it up into a weird sort of shape as i was going to have this as my final piece 

 i then decided actrally i could experement with this so i used the scanner and scanned it into photoshop and taking the image of the cat i added the image to the cat and added a sauration of a blue tint to the cat so it matched my picture. After that I decided i wanted to make it more creative so i went over the cat and a few other of the drawings on the image in photoshop with the paint tool just to give it a clearer and better out line. 


I then thought to myself about the motto i saw in one of the last years winners of this campaign which was 'Know What Your Paying Fur' i really liked this motto so i used it in my own work this is what i came up with 

Inspired By David Carson and Nevile Brody I changed the font sizes and put them in random places to give i a effect. I then Coloured in the No and Fur in the motto 'Do you know what your paying fur' so it stands out and if it was on a t shirt it would be easy to see the main idea of the t shirt.


i then did some experimental work  with my design so i tried using photoshop and i thresholded it, i like it as i think it looks quite unusual but i dislike the way the black and white is the only colours on the image asi thought it is too bland 

Developing on from this idea i wrote out some text that links in with animal cruelty on a a4 piece of paper on photoshop. I then changed the colour of the writing to white and background black like this:

Inspired by the style of Nevile Brody i made this piece. all i have done was made the font different sizes. I then added my design into the picture and shaded some of the areas around the design so it fits in with the black, i also changed the opacity settings so the writing really stands out more than the picture. This is what i came up with.

I then thought of using a different colour cat to show more of a effect of violence and to emphasise my point of cruelty. So i went onto photoshop again and opened the image above and changed the hue and saturation to a more suitable outcome.

I like this one more as it looks more to the point of cruelty and you can see a artist effect in  what's surpose to be a serious and horrific thing to talk about in a poster or on a shirt.

I then experimented with the picture more and i flattened the image using photoshop and rasterized the text then i used the magic wand and deleted the colour inside the text so the picture goes through as the text this is what i came up with 

I love the way the word cruel came out it really shows violence and character to the setting of animal cruelty as it has the blood and the slashes in it which emphasise pain and suffering for animals.

I Lastly tried to use some of the techniques around photoshop and in the end i used stained glass 

I like it as it looks really funky and artistic however some of the words you cant see very well because of it, so if i was to use it again i would want to Make sure i space the letters out and make them big enough so they can take this effect

A2 Collage

The collage you see before you was one of our tasks in the design for fur campaign. To make it we had a piece of A3 paper and glue. we were told to be imaginative in our designs, For my Collage I used a Zebra Pattern background which I found in a magazine, I used this because it links in with animals fur coating, it also really stands out with the rest of the picture. after doing the background I went onto the main design (the middle one). I then found women who look like models to put on the poster holding the label Design Against Fur.

During my day at college I realised a lot of the students where wearing fur coated hats so i thought id go over the top and instead of using the fur I cut the tigers head of his body and cut a women out. I then cut in-between the middle of the tiger a circle so the women could put her head in it and it looks like a hat. But then i thought i could improve this as it needs to be fashionable so i cut the circle so it was a split circle and made them look like the two random sides on winter hats you see today. I chose the white tiger so it matched my background.

My next move was the tiger at the top of my project to make this i used my old image I made of the tiger in a skin suit. I thought it was a good idea to show 'if we can wear animal skins who is to say they cant wear us to'. I cut the image out and changed the saturation so it looks more funky and creative.

The next move I did was i took the letters from the poster above changed the saturation to mixed colours and stuck them on the a3 paper in a diagonal shape because I thought having it in one straight line is not very creative and artists like David Carson and Neville Broody don't just have a straight line print of writing, its always manipulated in there work.

Finally i used some of the old winners of the Design Against Fur Campaign 2010 in the canvas as i liked the ideas example the  one bellow 

I really like this image as I think it is very creative how they made it and the purpose it is bringing, as the person looking at the piece I can see exactly what it is showing but its done in a very artistic way. The colours with the white background and the rabbit are very clever as I believe the person who made this is thinking outside the box as i would imagine the white colour would be colour coordinating the sense of innocence and the blood from the credit card which has been cleverly put as to make it look like a knife is going through the rabbit when actually its the card. i believe the red blood is colour coordinating suffering and pain.

Extended Image

This is one of my designs for my t shirt using the style of Julian Opie. I used Photoshop and tinted the original picture of a husky so I could go over the  outline of the image. I then shaded in the colours of the picture by making the font and size of the brush to about 50, I then gently shaded the images colour using the paint but I went over the outline a bit as I didant want it to look perfect as i want it t have a artistic effect. I then got a blood splat image from the internet and again with the husky i tinted it so i could draw over it. Once i painted over the blood I then wanted to use one on my favourite artists David Carson so I used the saturation tool in Photoshop and completely mixed all the colours so its completely random.

Collages

In one of our lesson we made a collage of millions of images from magazines and we had to make it refer to the title design against fur. We were given magazines and newspaper articles etc to cut up and manipulate a picture in our own way to do with the subject of our project (fur Cruelty) I myself also used a few images from the internet to do my design, this is what I came up with in the end for the collage. 

As you can see I have cut up mainly different letters from different magazines to make a effect and make it stand out so it is less dull and more unique. I used internet to get a picture of a skin coat and a tiger, I then printed it out and cutted the images then montaged them together so it looks like the tiger is wearing a human suit. This is to enphase Cruelty to animals as it shows a question or meaning to the image which is 'Would It be cruel if it was the other way around?' Anyway after doing this image I then put it into the scanner and uploaded the image to the computer, using the computer I opened up a program called Photoshop and used it to manipulate the image, I changed the saturation/ hue to give it more of a negative colourful effect which i then leveled. This is what i came up with.

The effects I made made my design look a bit more unique and more sort of funky and creative. I like this design alot as it looks a llittle ike the atrtist work of David Carson. The colours fit nicely together and the tiger with the green glow really stands out and contrasts the image itself. I then took this image further and started to put it on a white t shirt design template to see what it looks like on the t shirt and if it stands out as clear as i say it does as the collage poster.

As you can see there are two designs I have looked at on the t shirt. The first one is a little logo like Ralph Lauren or Armani but instead of it being a Symbol it is a image. I looked at this to see if it worked and to be honest i dislike it quite alot as you cannot see the image very well or the words printed on it. However the 2nd design looks much better than the first as you can see the image clearly on the back and it stands out if i was to experement with this further i believe i will change the colour of the t shirt to black as it would really contrast with the saturated colours and hue of my collage image i made.

Surealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members. It is a piece of artwork which is not the truth example a elephant with giraffe legs, that counts as surealism.


There are many artists who specialise in this like this artist.