Second assignment: Open Project

Open Project process documentation

The first step for me when coming up with the project was to sketch a design to work with:

However, as I worked on the sketches I realized that maybe there would be too little actual markmaking for what I wanted to convey, so I decided to do a digital drawing with a different composition to put the man more into focus. 

At first I was having a bit of trouble figuring out what the composition of the new piece would be until, while at work, the idea and composition in the picture above popped into my head, so I decided to work off that. 

Now, unfortunately, I was a bit rusty when came to drawing with my tablet, so it took me much longer to actually draw this form, especially considering I was not able to find any reference pictures for the specific pose I was trying to draw (which is something I should've taken to account in hindsight) and ended up fighting the legs for quite a while after losing the perspective when going from the sketch to finalization of the lines 

After catching myself wasting time being hyper focused on the legs, I decided that I would just try and actually finish the layout of the final piece before working on the finer details. In the picture above I had scanned several of the syllabuses I had gotten and decided to use a blue to grey gradient to cover it and make it opaque, along with adding light and shadow to the man. 

Once I placed the works I wanted to emphasize on the piece and repositioned him in a better location,  I cleaned up the sky, added rippling to the water, tried my best to fix the leg so it didn't look flat or off, placing the man behing the opaque gradient so that he blends better with the water, and added the cavity to the man's chest.

Finally, I used white noise to look like liquid seeping out of the cavity by placing it both on top of the gradient at a warped angle to give it a bit of depth, and behind the gradient so simulate the idea of it being a liquid that is surfacing from inside the water outward