Photobashing

 06/12/20 - Week 9

For the past couple weeks I have been slowly working away at photobashing, I am quite happy with the outcome but I can definitely see areas where things went wrong.

I started with getting some of the major elements onto the vehicle. I think things had already started to go wrong here as I was rushing too much and not putting enough detail and care into each element I was placing down, eventually I had to come back and edit each piece again to get it to the standard I wanted which I think really slowed me down in this process. If I could have sorted out lighting and neatening things up as I went then I think the process could have been much smoother and coherent. I usually jump around when I am painting so I think I was doing this naturally here but I have learnt that it's not the best idea and if I were going to do this again then I think the outcome would have looked much better.

Next, I added some more things to the piece. Things started to get a bit confusing here, I am not sure if it was because I was adding to much at once or it is just because the design itself isn't strong enough - most likely a combination of both. Everything wasn't reading to the eye easily and I couldn't make things out myself even if I tried to add highlights and adjust the values. I was also struggling to align some things to my grid for some reason, I think this is probably down to the fact I should have been spending longer on each item as things being slightly off was probably making other things look incorrect too.

I tried to salvage this piece by removing some things and readjusting others, and I think it worked a little bit, the scoop on the front and the first half of the vehicle was looking a lot clearer and adhering to the perspective. After doing this, I added more detail and also all of the clutter I wanted onto the vehicle. This really helped it to feel more alive. I also looked at the silhouette and made some adjustments to the design, adding things in places that I didn't have originally planned, to help with the shape.

I still don't feel this is particularly a strong piece though I am hoping adding some colour will help to bring it together. At this point I feel the grayscale isn't helping me as much as I do work better digitally in colour, so hopefully it will make more sense to me and I can improve the realism and overall aesthetic of the vehicle.