Final Pieces for Workshops

Here are my two final pieces for the workshops by Ben and Phil.

My final piece for Ben's workshop was based on the three words “Hungry, Demonic, Lumberjack” and I think that I have been able to convey these words quite well. I went through several ideas for the final piece and I was going to do a much darker, more demonic (human proportions) final image. But in the end I wanted to create a cuter, funnier piece rather than just focus on the demonic side. If you can't see the separate elements of the character here is the break down. So, the lumberjack is portrayed by the hat, jeans, boots, axe, beard and, most importantly, the striped red shirt. The Demonic element is shown through the red skin and horns, this was quite an easy thing to add to my character so I didn't want to dwell to much on it. The only problem was showing my character as being hungry. I could do this by pulling the skin back and show the ribs on my character's mid section, also I added a thought bubble with food in it to suggest that my character this thinking about food.

My final piece for Phil's workshop is actually three images. When doing the workshop I removed items from photographs, with a scalpel, to suggest that the items had been stolen. I wanted to use a computer and digitally edit photographs and I went through several different variations of this idea, using different colours for the empty spaces left behind. However after some experimenting I decided that white is the best colour for this idea, it really conveys the empty, vacant space left behind by the stolen items. Finally, rather than just doing one image for my final piece I wanted to do three to suggest that an entire house has been ransacked and items have been stolen.

 

Enjoy!  Tom :)