Task 4&5 - At least 8 hand rendered alternative ideas for environment artwork

I chose this image because I felt like I would be able to use a mix of bright and pale colours, due to the contrasting lighting in the landscape. I also felt I could use watercolours for the reflections in the water.

 This is the image I chose for my samples. I chose it because I wanted to be able to use darker and thicker colours because of the duller landscape. I also thought that the clouds and the sun flare added a nice effect to the image.

I chose this image because I thought that it would be good chance to use watercolours, due to the pale and thin colours in the sky and the rocks, as well as the reflection in the lake.

Samples

For this sample I used felt tip pens. For certain points of the cliff and grass, I tried to create distinct horizontal lines, and left noticeable gaps, as I thought this might make it look more detailed. For the mountains in the back, and the smoke/clouds, I made the colours fuller and darker to show that they were far away, and details couldn't be seen as well. Overall, I felt like using felt tip pens lowered the quality of the sample.

For this sample I used acrylic paint. I used lighter shades of green and brown as I painted further away pieces of land. Due to the size of the paintbrush I was using, the sample isn't very detailed, and is quite messy in some places, including areas with clouds. I could have tried to use a smaller brush to add more details.

For this sample I used watercolour pencils. I felt that using watercolour pencils was much easier than using normal watercolours, and I was able to create marks in the colours. I also found that I could more easily decide how deep the colours were, and avoid mixing colours that I wanted separate.

For this sample I used a pencil. Much of the sample was done with a blunt pencil, which was then smudged slightly. Because I made the foreground very light, I used shading to gradually move towards the dark background. The sky was kept light like the foreground by lightly applying pencil and smudging it. Using a rubber, I created the smoke/cloud effect on the mountains, and using the sharp corner of the rubber I create small lines on the grass. I thought this medium was quite easy to use, and effective.

For this sample I used tea and coffee. When I started this I stained the entire sample in a light amount of tea. Afterwards created the dark background by using multiple layers of coffee, and only one layer of coffee for most of the foreground. Using tea and coffee wasn't as effective as I hoped, because I felt like I didn't shade the background and foreground different enough.

This sample was done for a different image than the rest. This is because it is the first sample I did, but after completing it I felt like it would be better to use the image of the mountains instead. This sample was done with watercolours, mainly using bright colours. I wanted to create a distance effect by making the background cliffs a lighter shade of orange than the foreground, and I think the effect works. For the reflection in the water, I used slightly different colours, and made them very pale and vague. I didn't like using watercolours much, partly because I felt like I didn't have much control over it.

For this sample I used oil pastels. For the grass I had a dark green layered on top of a lighter green, and used a toothpick to scratch through to reveal the lower layers. The cliffs were the same but I added a layer of brown on top, and tried to create marks. The clouds/fog were made by smudging black, and the background mountains were made using a lot of black oil pastel. The sky was also made using smudged blue, but didn't work as planned. Using this medium was messy and looks quite childish, and was quite difficult to use effectively.

For this sample I used acrylic paint. Unlike my other acrylic sample, I added the grey paint for the fog using a sponge, to try and create an effect for the outer edges of the fog. I felt like this didn't work as well as intended, because it was messy and hard to do small areas of fog, due to the size of the sponge I was using. For the paint itself, I chose to use lighter colours in the foreground, so the grass and cliff are much brighter.