Day 8: Artwork composition #6

This time I wanted to try something different.

I may or may not have mentioned that I’m currently finishing up college. This semester I’m taking a class on Western art, but this design has nothing to do with Western art, whatsoever. The inspiration for this piece came along as I had been prompted to go to art galleries to look at paintings as well as other art forms. Did I go? No, I didn’t, but it DID remind me of the time I went to the Chicago Art Institute. With that said, I pulled up pictures I took of some of the pieces on the wall and decided to design this piece as if you were looking at it on the wall at a gallery or art institute. It’s a work of art of a work of art on a wall…

My process started out with the usual 3000x3000px artboard. I texturized it like a painted wall and threw an opaque, dark gray overlay on it. It took me some time to play around with the kind of framing I wanted to make, but I ended up making a black frame with white mat to make the “painting” stand out a little more. As the painting, I used the cloud picture from compositions 1, 2, 3, and 5 and texturized it, giving it the effect that it’s a painting. To add some detail, I warped some circular shapes to look like display lights above the picture frame. Once I nailed the angle for the light fixture, I duplicated it and mirrored it for the other side. Below the frame, I made a golden colored plaque inscribed with the song title, my artist name, origin, and the release year. After looking at the piece from that point, I felt that it needed some more details like lighting and shading, so I added some lighting and shading to the frame and plaque as well as the oval-shaped lighting coming from the lights above the frame. The whole process took a lot longer than my previous pieces.

Design #6

For some reason, the upload has some greenish tint to it, but try to ignore that and focus on the comprising elements. Round 2 for voting is coming next!