Ed Week 1: Metropolis Citizens

As the project begins, we’ve started on our first pieces of artwork as well as our initial plans and layouts of the book.

I personally worked on the upper class citizens of metropolis, creating a range of androgynous clothing with variations on a theme and style rather than one final image that can be used to create a varied range of background characters who all look like they’ve come from the same environment.

I used my usual method of working for this; starting with basic silhouettes before taking the ones we liked and developing them into variations and sketches using blocks of grayscale colour. After this I move on to photo bashing the outfits to get more of an idea of colour and texture and do even more variations.

 

One of the two sheets of silhouettes




Developing silhouettes into block sketches (This is silhouette 19 from the picture above)




Moving on to photo bashing

Because there's no 'final' hero image to this part of the project, these final coloured images created through a combination of painting and photo bashing are the examples of the range of clothing worn by our upper class citizens 
 

I’ve also created a range of page layouts that will be used to format the finished book, they’re created with placeholder images and text but they’re examples of how the pages will look once the book is complete. I created layouts for square pages as well as landscape because we’re not certain which type of book we want and we expect them to change.

 



Layout for a Landscape A4 page

 



A layout for a squarer page

 

 I'm happy with the amount of work I produced this week. As the project starts I'm really excited about the opportunity to create the feel of a wider world in the clothing of the people.

-Ed