Composition: Inspiration to Rendering

I'm learning alot in photoshop, I never knew you could assemble anything like this in photoshop so this was a learning experience for me. Practicing the use of setting guidelines, snapping images into place and the line and text tools I created this simple looking composition.

I can definitely see myself doing more presentations like this one rather than just pasting things together on a piece of matte board. I think it is cleaner this way.

What I learned:
+To pay attention to hierarchy when it comes to creating a composition with images.

Gothic Castles and Dragon Siege...

My composition for the castle So You Think You Can['t] Draw contest of the week. This subject matter is right up my alley because I really have interest in castles and fantasy. My inspiration for the design of my castle was from that of the Gothic Cathedrals because I think they are very elegant and detailed and I wanted to bring that to my castle.

There are alot of small details in this composition, everything from a knight thats frozen solid to silhouettes of dragons in the sunset. Check them out!

Tone it down abit...

Using the de-saturation option on Photoshop. I've been told my colors are usually very saturated and even over saturated so I removed the red that was so apparent in all the other postings. Does it make a difference?

Whats That? You Don't Like the Green?

Well no problem, lets change it to blue. I used the color balance option this time under image and adjustments. Based on a few colors like cyan, blue, green, etc. I could create a color mixture that could be infinite. I only changed a few things in this room so I could have a primary color scheme.

[Burn] Baby Burn...

Okay, so we learned some Photoshop magic the other day and here is what the Burn Tool can do. From the last post, I used my perspective I scanned in and I decided to make shadow more apparent in the image. I may have gone overboard in some spots but thats the point as I see just how dark I can go and still keep the composition interesting and not muddled.

Final Rendering

Here is another view of the previous space assigned in drawing class. I had to go back into Sketch-up and fool around with the eye level views and walk around tool to get a decent and interesting camera angle of the living area.

Still brightly saturated colors but I worked alittle more on light and shadow by using cool grays to darken some areas. Also I created my own scale figure rather than using "sketch-up man".

[Caution]: Experimental Rendering

Rendering has to be my absolute favorite part of this class, I love drafting and all but this is the most fun for me because I am an artist at heart. For this assignment we had to render based on the color scheme from one of Maud Gatewood's paintings, anyone see a trend?

Maud Gatewood

We had to experiment in rendering styles from rigid to loose techniques using markers. (In my case Prismas) My weakness seems to be letting loose, for some reason if its not pretty uniform I see it as sloppy so I shall continue to work on that. Also my colors are abit brighter than the norm but I decided thats what I wanted to go for to show contrast and shape in the space and practice color placement.

Structured Rendering

Medium Rendering

Loose Rendering II

Loose Rendering I

There are two "loose" renderings because I was experimenting with different techniques and with getting used to being alittle looser as I tried things that worked and did not work to show the time I had put into them rather than make it seem like they took ten minutes. Markers are still a relatively scary medium for me because they are so much more permanent in every mark you make but I am getting more and more comfortable with them as I experiment.

Things to work on:
+Color Saturations
+Shadowing that translates from afar.
+ Loose Style for future reference.
+ Techniques with various shades of gray markers.