New Skills Learnt

From this lesson we have learnt the techniques involved in creating a graffiti stencil effect...
While we did have a list with guidelines, the best results featured my own experiementation.

My first result:
I think that this design could not go any further and could not look better because the image did not feature spaces inside, to create that 'cut out' effect.

The steps involved included selecting the image with the magic brush so I only have the image I wanted, then selecting a colour (pink) to add the spray over the top. Using the spray brush on a high diameter I placed it in the areas I wanted. Placed 'Noise' over the top to create a distorted effect, then repeated for the background by selecting the inverse. This effect looks like the spray paint has leaked out the the stencil.

My next attempt proved much more successful as I chose an image that featured the cut out white selections. I changed the interior colour from black to an off sea blue, then repeated the spraying step, however decreasing the oppacity and increasing the size of the brush. I used white over the top, yet with its decreases oppacity it looked like a duller blue. This step was repeated for the outside.
Next I went to www.brusheezy.com which gave me such a wide variety of brushes to download. i settled for a paint dripping one. I actually downloaded many rather than just one, so I used an assortment of these to create the dripping effect.
Using the rectangular selection tool I created the borders of the stencil, by using the spray brush over the inverse.

I am really happy with the result.

CONCEPT BOARDS

This is the final chosen concept board of the three. Of the template, collage and creative, the class and I chose collage, as it most effectively conveyed both micro and macro aspects of the building.
Of the three however, this was my least favourite board, having taking me the longest and I thought that it didn't fit the concept board criteria effectively enough. Therefore it came as a bit of a shock that this board was unanimously chosen to be my final concept board to present for the assignment.
This just shows that sometimes you need to listen to others point of view, as your own can be tainted by the process of creation. For example I was sick of looking at, so was unlikely to want to include it for my further assignment needs.

However, looking at it now, I can tell that it was the right choice, as this one gives me a greater variety of inspiration to work from in relation to designing skirts.