Result Response Work

Responding to feedback

After I recieved back my completed questionnaires, I was able to understand what people find most appealing and in context with the magazine, it seemed that minimalist was a popular choice as well as nature, however it was apparent that pop culture was the most inspiring and so I have been responding experimenting with this feedback, using my illustrations in photoshop, I was able to collate the three themes into one, expressing a minimalist theme that cultivates a juxtaposed visual of pop culture and traitional japan, so my final theme is – Minimalist pop nature

Illustration Experimentation – Photoshop

I began using my theme visuals in photoshop to begin expanding on my feedback, I played around with pop and nature, creating different colours and variations like warhol. As I’ve been becoming more confident on Photoshop I have begun to use layers and new tools, I found by using the select tool you can select areas and change the filter, colour, brightness of just that section, so I began to play with this on the lower images, combining new found techniques with filters and hues.

I opened my illustration in photoshop, I playeed around with filters and found one called fresco which I liked, I decided to intergrate the pop culture theme by using layers and editing hues and saturation in each of the layers

I decided to intergrate the pop culture theme by using layers and editing hues and saturation in each of the layers

I then began altering the brightness and saturation further, building on light and colour

I used the fresco filter to start off, darkening the aesthetic, I then selected boxes within boxes, altering the colours and saturation in each untill I had bright colourful result, using layers to control each feature.

Photography Experimentation – Photoshop

After recieving my results I looked back at my artist research and felt inspired to use photography, looking a Ren Hang, I wanted to explore contemporary nature photography and so I began editing some images I have from the allotments and gardens using suggestions from my feedback. I decided to explore the idea of using pattern and colour blocking, I have been reading an article on Japanese graphic design and it is reccommended to explore colour. Below I had panel hues down the images and I had repeated the image on the top right to explore pattern, I feel these are interesting effects, I like using pop with photography as it looks interesting and inspired.

Pattern illustration – Photoshop

I decided to keep trying out patterns with my other nature work, exploring pop again by altering the hue and saturation, I feel this will be the technique used to bring in a feel of pop culture, however I must be careful with the saturation as it can make it unnaturally vibrant.

I found it quite simple in altering these howver it was hard to chose which colours to save as there were so many options, I feel it this process would work well with the idea of pop culture and minimalism however I feel it would be good to explore other options further perhaps using the same effects here with more primary photography.