ATA: Train scene

After the first piece of collage translated so well across into photoshop, I made the decision to create more pieces and take them all across. 

The next piece I created was centred around the novel "colourless tsukuru tazaki and his years of pilgrimage" as the main character in that has a job of building stations but he also enjoys trains and spends a lot of his time visiting stations when he is down. 

One of the problems I first encountered was that I had created lots of textures in the mono print studio but didn't limit them to two colours. At first I tried to use just two colours from the mono print selection but it really limited the textures I could use in each piece so I opted to use all of the textures I liked despite the colour and then change the hue once I got into photoshop. 

I was really pleased with how it's started to come out, by adding a layer of blue hue it got all of the pieces to match whilst letting them retain their textures and each having a slightly different colour. 

After this I realised that the piece looked a little bit empty, I had managed to give the sense of depth but felt that by adding a character it would improve this but also it would lend itself to the feeing of isolation. 

I also experimented with different brushes but have not yet decided on whether I want a wet brush look or if I want the character to be more of an outline. Something that was mentioned in my crits was the inclusion of a darker tone to add more depth to each piece. I avoided adding it in for a while because I thought it might look too "busy" but eventually decided to add it in. Now I am just thinking about which character I want to place in.

LIKES 

• I really think the collage has translated well in photoshop 
• The textures work really well and it feels consistent with the other 

DISLIKES 

• I'm not sure if it is too busy or too much in comparison to "into the woods". 

IMPROVE

• Unsure about the depth of the piece, need to ask opinions on the character placement next time in crit. 
• Ask whether the inclusion of darker pieces makes it too busy?