Workshop 1 - 8/10/15

Todays workshop was a Live Brief. We had a choice of 7 different articles to create an editorial piece of work from.

The article I chose was: "What are American spies doing at Oktoberfest?"http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/what-are-american-spies-doing-at-oktoberfest/ar-AAf0uJm

 I did a few quick rough sketches of some ideas. I felt there was some strong characteristics of the first quick sketch so I played with this idea a bit more...

After experimenting with composition and layout I came up with some clearer and more effective ideas.

This is the image before I scanned it onto a Mac and edited it using Photoshop. The image needed some neatening up and a few alterations.

Here is the final version of my editorial piece of work, after Photoshop. I wasn't overly impressed with the outcome of my work. I went over the one day deadline and the only thing in the image that I would say I am close to being pleased with is the Spy. The rest of the image isn't to the standard that I am happy with and I would have liked to have put a lot more detail into it, especially on the beer glasses. The reason for this not being to a high standard is I set too much to do in the time frame. In future I need to think more about timing and whether my design is realistic to complete in my choice of media in the allotted time. I also need to put more thought into my choice of media, what I'm good at and prefer to use isn't always the best for artwork with a time limit. I would also be more careful with my design as the ellipses on the glasses aren't very even and I feel this also lets the artwork down. I think if I were to have created the image in layers and put them all together on Photoshop then I would have been able to move aspects of the image around and neaten up other areas more effectively. With programs like Photoshop available I need to consider the finish of my work more before creating my image.

The feedback I received from the peer review was 'sensitive palette is good'. I used quite soft colours and blended them so that they appeared quite subtle, so this worked quite well. It may be something I use for other pieces of work in the future.