Photoshop Design - Step By Step

Step 1

This is the first step I have done by colouring the background using "quick select tool" to select the area outside of all images and click delete. After that, I use brush to colour the background into blue colour.

Step 2

The second step is make the 4 digital men into a real digital men with binary code image and the background had changed to black colour. In order to avoid confuse, I had named every layers.

Step 3

The third step is make the background full of binary code and I have added the effect "stroke" to the layer of  4 digital men so as to make it obvious separate from the binary code of background. Next I start to colour the human in the middle and my artwork is done. The whole concept for this pictures is to depict the human nowadays communicate or interact with each other using technology such as mobile phone, electronic gadgets, computers and etc instead of face-to-face communication. Therefore, this pictures depicts the human that the middle man is communicating with is binary code, not real men.  

Pattern drawing

Sketches

Sketch 1

Sketch 2

Sketch 3

Sketch 4

Sketch 5

These are my sketches to the topic "How technology changes human life". At last I have chosen Sketch 4 as my final decision.

Photo Montage - Human Lifestyle on a Walking Street

Pop Art

I have chosen Pop Art from the list of art movement. Pop art is defined as a form of modern art movement which emerged in 1950's which employs imagery, styles and themes from popular culture such as advertising, mass media,comic books etc. It was recognized as visual art movement which featured a sense of optimism during the post war consumer boom of the 1950's and 1960's. It is correspond to pop music and youth culture which personified by Elvis and Beatles. The characteristic of Pop Art is brash, young and fun. Pop art is also aimed to employ images of popular as opposed to elitist culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any given culture, most often through the use of irony.
Different countries had different styles of painting and sculpture but they all had in common was an interest in mass-media, mass-production and mass-culture. Inspiration and ideas for Pop Art paintings were drawn from the commercial and consumer aspects of everyday life, particularly in American culture. According to Marion Boddy-Evans, Pop Art usually looks flat as its style with opaque colour rather than having depth created by layers of transparent, glazed colour which makes it can be recognized easily compare to other art movement. Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol are the famous and best in Pop Art industry.

Roy Lichtenstein
'Whaam!', 1963 (oil and acrylic resin on canvas)
Source: http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/art_movements/pop_art.htm

Eduardo Paolozzi
'I was a Rich Man's Plaything' , 1947 (collage)
Source: http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/art_movements/pop_art.htm

Andy Warhol
‘Marilyn Diptych’, 1962 (silkscreen on canvas)
Souce: http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/art_movements/pop_art.htm

Reference

Marion Boddy-Evans. Art Glossary: Pop Art. Retrieved from http://painting.about.com/od/artglossaryp/g/defpopart.htm

Pop Art - The Art of Popular Culture. Retrieved from http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/art_movements/pop_art.htm

Pop Art. Retrieved from http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Pop_art.html

Photograph interpretation

Source: http://www.napcp.com/blog.php/2010/05/18/remember-the-little-things/

Amanda Padgham, photographer of this photo, who is also a mum of two children's photographer. She took pictures of her children to retain the memories of her children as she appreciates her life with her children. She tried to depict her life with them through photographs.

In my opinion when I saw this picture I felt happy as the innocent smile of children makes me smile. I know that their smile is sincere and come from their heart. Smile of children is always the best prescription for everyone to forget their busy and frustration life. For adults nowadays being living under a pressure, busy working life, they have forgotten how to smile and they even have nothing to them happy as well. Therefore when I saw their innocent smile it makes me recall back the memories when I was a child without any worry and stress and just live happily with family. This photograph also depicts the life of children living under cherish of their mum. They played with each other, played with neighbour’s dog and dressed cute costume. These memories are kept in a photograph so that in 20 years when they grow up and see back their own photo they will feel another way that no one will understand but them own selves.

My Favourite Colours

White 

Source: http://jordanmcbride.com/weekend-inspiration-white-bridesmaid-dresses/

White colour means colourless for some people. To me, it represents purity, innocence, virginity, heaven, perfect and cleanliness whereas in the view of psychology it represents a new beginning and opens the way for the creation of anything the mind can conceive. The most reason that white colour is my favourite colour is it is pure at all, without any dirt or any strong impression of other colour.

There are different interpretations of white colour in different countries. The best and easiest way to differentiate the symbolism of white colour for different countries is separate into western and eastern countries. According to Jennifer Bourn (2010), white is the traditional colour worn by brides in western countries to indicate purity and virginity whereas white is the colour for mourning and funerals in most of the eastern countries.

 

Source: http://shirinhandmade.com/2011/06/where-the-white-things-are/

I feel glad and cheerful when I see white colour thing such as white snow, white guitar and white dress and so on. I have a lot of white dresses and clothes in my wardrobe which shows I like white colour very much.

Blue 

Source: http://www.ghostinthemachine.net/blue-sky-mining-1/

Another colour that I like instead of white is blue colour. When I think of blue colour I will think of blue sky as I like watching to the sky when I am daydreaming. Blue signifies calm, cool, imagination, trust, loyalty, sincerity, wisdom, and confidence. That is why we should add some colour of blue in our life to make ourselves calm and chill instead of pursuing busy life such as red colour.

Reference
Jennifer Bourn. (2010). Color Meaning: Meaning of The Color White. Retrieved from http://www.bourncreative.com/meaning-of-the-color-blue

Jennifer Bourn. (2010). Color Meaning: Meaning of The Color Blue. Retrieved from http://www.bourncreative.com/meaning-of-the-color-white