Developing Final images

Three final images: Three quotes:

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

To thine own self, be true.

Be Curious, not judgemental.

I started to create digital mock ups and back ground ready for the final pieces. I decided it would help me in decisions on presentation of the final pieces and weather to create frames for the images or not. I recreated my multiple layered images for the background as seen in past posts. This time I added more detail in with typography and added more quotes in too. As a twist on past experiments, I added cropped translucent images of the characters photographs in the background, as the ones I found online. 

Below shows the two art boards of the same image, one as a original and one as a tracing, before having a sepia wash over the top.

Below it the first art board with just one layer of translucent orange sepia over the top.

Below is the two layers of sepia which I think works much better and deeper - adding more tone to the background and ready for the piece as a whole. I think the shadow fading in also works well, giving the image a clean cut look on the edges and a professional finish ready for the illustrations to go on top.

After creating my background pieces ready, I tweaked the illustrations used and scanned them into Illustrator. I wanted my images to be clean cut, similar in style to lino-cutting but digital, ready to work into further in pen and ink by hand. 

Using filters and tracing options on Illustrator I created the poster style mock ups as seen below, black and white, clean cut like digital lino or wood cut prints that can be adapted ready for the final images. I really liked thesebecause they were bold and I knew that they would stand out against the background but as well as this I also felt that the tattoos worked really well too, that they can out looking like tattoos but also gave me the scope again to work into them more by hand.

After digitally altering all of the images to the same print cut effect I then worked on mocking up on the page. Using the magic wand tool I selected all of the white bits of the illustration and deleted them so they were now transparent gaps.

I copied the now black and translucent image over to the background and pasted it. I adapted the scale to the A3 setting to give myself room to work with after print out for drawing on the quotes and tattoo motifs around the illustration. I cleaned up around the scan edges and then did this all over for the other images, ready to pick my three strongest for final pieces.