Tree Moodboard

Surreal

Here's my final piece for the surreal brief. After finishing, I felt it was too dark as you can see in the top image, so I altered the brightness & contrast and added a orange gradient map on a low opacity to try and make it look like the glow from the burning planet in the background is lighting up the view. I used vanishing points in the top 2 corners to add perspective to the piece as well as making the mountains getting a little bit fainter as they got further away from the front.

Surreal Sketches/Ideas

 

My sketch ideas for the surreal brief include a man riding on a large bird which carries his house on it's back. In the background you can see the sun, the moon and another planet. In the midground there's trees and mountains as well as a river.

Surreal Moodboard

Here's my moodboard for the surreal brief. I like the idea of the turtle with life on his shell. I'd like to go down a similar route to this with my surreal piece.

Robot

Here is my final piece for the robot brief. I am happy with the outcome but I do think it can be better, as it looks a bit simple and only simple shapes have been used. I feel as if more 'complicated' shapes were used it would make the piece look more interesting.

Robot Sketches/Studies

Here are my sketches for the robot brief. I originally looked at how joints on robots looked and how they're formed as well as weapons and how they hold them. I then looked at a possible design rout i could go down which involved a female cyborg sitting on the ground but I decided to go with my second idea, which is a robot samurai. I did some page studies to work out how I wanted the piece to look on the page so I could work out where the main parts of the body should be on the page to try and keep things in proportion. With the final sketch, I had to squeeze the legs in a bit as I ran out of room. However in Photoshop this will not be a problem as I can resize the painting on the fly. 

Robots Moodboard

 

Here is my mood board for the robots brief.