Task 5 - Production

Initial approaches
When it came down to creating my final product, I had to look back on my previous work which I used for Ideas generation, on my piece I used charcoal initially to create a smudged effect, which I've pictured below

Once I got this, I used photoshop to create a charcoal effect, I did this using the smudge tool with the finger painting option enabled

Doing this makes it possible to create a charcoal effect, as it looks like it's been smudged across the canvas with someones finger, simulating the process of using charcoal to create shading.









my result of using the smudging tool as a replacement for charcoal gave me this outcome;

I like this as with the use of charcoal I can make really heavy shading and make objects look entirely outstanding from one and other, the use of black and white makes a really heavy contrast between background and foreground, though using the smudge tool makes me very limited when it comes down to anything other than using the smudge tool as it would get rid of the effect i'm aiming for.

With my previous work, I'd found that using the smudge tool was the way forward when it came to me creating my concept art for my final product, with this I knew I wanted to create a forest themed area as it's possible to create a simple grass or leaf effect with the smudge tool as it can be made to tile itself.

By going over images I took under my research I could create concept art using the smudge tool to  create an effect that was imitating that of the Concept artists with subtle movements, my initial beginnings looking like this;

                       

Once I'd started like this I got around working the rest of the image with the same idea, using the colours from the image I could closely imitate the picture I took, working into closely copying the image I took, but adding small flares and differences to the image to make it more like my own image, to add to this I changed it so that the image was at night, bringing down the toning and light of the whole image with photoshop.

Doing this gave me a more finalized result, with this I could create a more finalized piece.