After learning about Cartography and the connection between its aesthetics and the connection to to spacial information. For this project we began by understanding the importance of perspective and then created a charcoal grisaille drawing of a sustained still life object (as seen in Figure 1.1), here we notice the use of light and shadow in its highest contrast to portray the objects. This process helped in understanding the Gestalt principle. Once this step was completed, through photoshop we converted the image of the drawing into a digital copy (as seen in Figure 1.2). The next step in this project was learning about how we could manipulated use photoshop in different ways.
Through the use of different tools on photoshop like rulers, grids, pen and lasso too. We also learnt how to wrap or mask objects with an image.Combining these techniques we then worked with these tools onto our still life object. As seen in the image below.
Final Reflection
I found this project quite interesting as I had never really worked with these tools on photoshop and at the same time, also learnt how to manipulate these tools. What I found most help for this was the critique sessions, as it was helpful to learn the perspective of other artists.
