Part B

I started in October 2020.

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I did the Mark Crilley How to Draw a Skull (White Pencil on Black Paper) YouTube tutorial.  

  The tutorial My artwork 

In Photoshop I i edited the skull drawing  and photoshoped it. 

 I like photographing nature. I used my own photograph of a tree, changed the colour and cropped it to create a creepy background for the skulls.

Using Layers, I put the skulls on the blood red textured bark background. It looks dramatic and effective.

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My grandfather did some lessons for me on Skype to show me how to .....in Photoshop. After that I was able to learn myself or to use YouTube tutorials for a particular technique or if I couldn't find the function easily.

Photoshopping Grim Reaper. Discovered tools Puppet wrap which makes the edges smoother when you cut out a shape and Sharpen.

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I did a drawing of a green faced eyes popping out Grim Reaper. 

I used a photograph I took at the Among The Trees exhibition of a green murky fish tank (Mariele Neudecker's And Then the World Changed Colour: Breathing Yellow), zoomed in, cropped it and used it as a background for this scary Grim Reaper. I faded him to make him look even scarier.

To define edges in Photoshop I learnt how to use Auto Enhance, it detects the edges automatically instead of having to draw around the object yourself. (insert images). Before learning this it would take me a long time to cut the images out.

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I did a horse skull drawing lesson with my cartoon drawing teacher, horses heads are difficult to draw. Then using the drawing I made a horse headed Grim Reaper. 

 

On my own in Photoshop I learnt how to use the Mixer Brush Tool, Pencil Tool and Paint Bucket Tool to create a black background, a "steamy" 3D hood and a "big pixellated" effect on the bone of the skull.

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I do a lot of art webinars with Art Enthusiasts London. To tie in with the exhibition I visited I did a

n Andy Warhol Elephant art webinar. The elephant is drawn but appears printed, like an Andy Warhol screenprint.

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I did a skull using Hama beads...

... then in Photoshop I changed it a lot.