Initial Ideas
I did a quick brainstorm of ideas relating to wet, thinking of things like leaks, dew, baths, rain, swimming, the sea, wetsuits, fish, watering plants, etc. Stemming from the idea of rain, I thought about how this affects people and animals, such as wet socks or wet hair and then moved onto the idea of dripping wet hair as someone comes out of the shower.
Roughs
I did roughs for this idea and a few others but decided to stick with the idea of wet hair, as I continued to rough, I became more zoomed in to the subject so the hair filled the whole frame. I wanted to show the contrast between the tangle of wet hair and the smoothness of an area that has been combed.
Inspiration
I used Pinterest to search images of wet hair and saw that very distinctive stripes appear in the hair as it is combed. I wanted to capture and exaggerate this in my image.
Drawing
I sketched out my final design and was happy with how this looked in pencil. I thought about using a finaliser to produce this image but I know this is the tool I normally opt for. I thought that seeing as the theme was 'wet', I should use wet media so I chose Quink ink and a brush. I think this image went downhill from here. This sounds strange but the wetness and looseness of the media makes the hair actually look dry and flowing. When hair is wet, it has more structure and retains its shape more so maybe a pencil, pen or dip pen would have been more appropriate.
Photoshop
I played around with the levels of the image and added a screen layer to try different colours on it. Dark brown suited the image best, especially as hair tends to look darker when it is wet. The teeth of the comb didn't look like they were that deep into the hair so I used the clone stamp tool to push the hair further up the teeth of the comb. I thought the placement of the light and dark areas of the image were misleading so I added a new layer with soft areas of black which I made transparent to make certain areas darker. I feel like this helped to subtly frame the bottom of the image.
Submission
Yet again, the submission of my final image to the Illustration Friday website did not go smoothly - my image was replaced with a blank square and whenever I tried to open it it said there was an error. I spoke to Georgie about this and she suggested it might be the file size so I changed the resolution of my image to 150dpi and it then uploaded without a problem. This is something I will know to do in the future for this brief and others, if the file isn't able to open then there is no point in submitting anything at all.
I did a quick brainstorm of ideas relating to wet, thinking of things like leaks, dew, baths, rain, swimming, the sea, wetsuits, fish, watering plants, etc. Stemming from the idea of rain, I thought about how this affects people and animals, such as wet socks or wet hair and then moved onto the idea of dripping wet hair as someone comes out of the shower.
Roughs
I did roughs for this idea and a few others but decided to stick with the idea of wet hair, as I continued to rough, I became more zoomed in to the subject so the hair filled the whole frame. I wanted to show the contrast between the tangle of wet hair and the smoothness of an area that has been combed.
Inspiration
I used Pinterest to search images of wet hair and saw that very distinctive stripes appear in the hair as it is combed. I wanted to capture and exaggerate this in my image.
Drawing
I sketched out my final design and was happy with how this looked in pencil. I thought about using a finaliser to produce this image but I know this is the tool I normally opt for. I thought that seeing as the theme was 'wet', I should use wet media so I chose Quink ink and a brush. I think this image went downhill from here. This sounds strange but the wetness and looseness of the media makes the hair actually look dry and flowing. When hair is wet, it has more structure and retains its shape more so maybe a pencil, pen or dip pen would have been more appropriate.
Photoshop
I played around with the levels of the image and added a screen layer to try different colours on it. Dark brown suited the image best, especially as hair tends to look darker when it is wet. The teeth of the comb didn't look like they were that deep into the hair so I used the clone stamp tool to push the hair further up the teeth of the comb. I thought the placement of the light and dark areas of the image were misleading so I added a new layer with soft areas of black which I made transparent to make certain areas darker. I feel like this helped to subtly frame the bottom of the image.
Submission
Yet again, the submission of my final image to the Illustration Friday website did not go smoothly - my image was replaced with a blank square and whenever I tried to open it it said there was an error. I spoke to Georgie about this and she suggested it might be the file size so I changed the resolution of my image to 150dpi and it then uploaded without a problem. This is something I will know to do in the future for this brief and others, if the file isn't able to open then there is no point in submitting anything at all.
Evaluation
Overall, I am not entirely happy with this image because I don't feel it answers the brief strongly enough as the 'wetness' of the hair is not clear. In some ways I am glad I pushed myself to use ink in a painterly way instead of my usual line work but I think the subject of the image isn't instantly understandable and the textures I have created don't reflect what I had envisaged in my mind.
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