Weekly Reflection: Narrative and Sequential Imagery - Tree Environment Digital Workshops

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During today's session we completed two digital workshops, the first was to create a more simplified environment of branches close up. Whereas the second was to create a more detailed forest landscape following the guidelines of multiple light sources and much more refinement.

My initial approaches to both of these workshops did not work as I had intended, however once I restarted each technique I found I was able to create some very interesting illustrations.

I do not think I would like to reuse the style used in the first workshop where we had to create the simplified tree branches, as I just couldn't get the colour schemes to work cohesively. However, if I were to repeat this process I feel there are a lot of elements I could improve upon which may alter my feelings towards the overall process. For instance I would like to work on my colour scheme as I feel I really struggled with this along with my scaling. As I originally found I had tried to overcrowd the area and just couldn't seem to fix it entirely after that.

I do think it is a very interesting technique though, so perhaps I shall explore it in the future when I have more time to explore digital mediums. However, I would like to focus on my traditional skillset more during this module so I feel my time would be better spent focusing on those methods.

For the second workshop we had to create a more detailed and complete environment, originally I struggled with this as I tried to overcomplicate things. Yet once I was able to take a step back and collect my thoughts I found the resulting illustration I created was rather interesting and pleasant to the eye due to it's use of soft shapes and colours.

Once again I seem to have encountered trouble when printing my image as it has come out a lot darker than anticipated originally so I will have to resolve this, but overall I really enjoyed both the process and end result of this workshop. I would really like to use the second method more in the future as I feel it is based around the first workshop just more refined which I would like to convey within my work.

 

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