#gluaiseacht

This is my final design for my album design. I am quite happy with the result. I think that it looks better on the screen in comparison to being printed on paper.

I attended Fridays Type & Image workshop. We were given an introduction to Photoshop, particularly looking at how to manipulate images and use type. It took a bit of getting used to working on a Macbook, but it got easier the more I used it.

We were given a brief of re-designing an album cover while working our movement project into it.

This below was my first draft.

I featured a live hand. This is from a photograph I captured. At first I thought that there was nothing to work with, but when I went to working, I found that isolating the hand itself makes it really powerful. It's such a simple thing, but it translates quite well I think.

For my background I featured a textured skin like image, and edited that. I really like the contrast of the the background and the foreground.

I chose Massive Attack's Unfinished Sympathy as my album of choice, as I really love their music. The artwork for the bands album actually features a hand.

We went to painting on Thursday with Sylvia. We mixed the paint, and created a 3 tone palette. We were then given some card to use the edge of to create lines on the page. We first did some thumbnails.

From that we chose which composition to create on the page.

I did 3 of these drawings, and my final painting was my favourite I think.

I used some indian ink and made some impressions of hands. I got some people to manipulate their hands in interesting ways, and photographed these. I put a plain white backdrop of card behind so that I could witness some shadows and incorporate them as it would make for much a more interesting composition.

I used a mixture of bamboo and brushes to do them. I wanted to capture the essence of the live hand on a flat 2d media.