After experiencing photoshop, now is time to work with Illustrator.After a few hours of playing around with the tool, I start to like this program more than photoshop. guess it was because the project is now about making posters.

i choose to make

A poster about my first art teacher in taiwan. His name is Yan Fu.

He currently owns a gallery with a couple artists together and host shows occationally. the poster i made is one of the show they had last year-(though i put in the recently date instead of the actually date). it was a exhibition of a numerous artists in that group painting about the neighborhood, family or landscape scenes of my hometown. one thing to mention, my mother is also in that group, but sadly she wasn’t presenting any works in that show.

since the gallery was named in chinese, and they dont really have a logo. i just made them all in english and also made a logo for it. though there ’s not much progress to show because i basically just scanned image, fixed in photoshop then the rest of the layouts are easily done by illustrator tool.

hmmn, the final one is the easiest in combining. but since i re-do the back ground, most of the time was wasted on painting the wall, cutting the extra objects out from the room i scanned.

on the left is the original one………>”<

anyhow, the series is finally done

this one was pretty tough. i was trying to fade all the images into shadows. in company with the square boxes in the room, i was hoping the shadows can bring some kind of boring or depressing feelings. however, i soon realize the shadows is not that easy to do especially i dont have a real objects there for the shadows to be seen realistically. in fact i still not satisfied with the position in this image-it seems a bit unbalanced but really have no idea how to change it. the woman’s skirt part is the most difficult part; it wasn’t because of the techniques but the direction it flows took me a while to try in several ways. in order to change the angles so it looks like laying on the floor, i have to cut them into pieces then reconnect by clone stamps….after the smudge and blur effect, all this doesn’t show that clear….>”< the butterfly tatoos are the other of my favorite too, and it wasn’t hard^^

the fun thief- the lost of fun and colors- i wish the way that i make every 3-D objects into 2-D looking can speak the concept that i want to give to my viewers

well, i wasn’t working on the images in order.

this is the first one but also the longest one. with the combination of running horse and the net, there is a direct message that the trapped freedom that i want to deliver here. the net took me a while to clean all the little holes…while the flam on the horse took me a while to figure how to make them fit into the whole image. basically, the burning and dodge/sponge tools helped a lot here. the color reflection on the grass and the person is simply done by overlapping another layer. though somehow the horse still seem to be a bit fake from the image/perhaps this creature is surrealistic by itself anyway.

overall, i am quite satisfied with the position arrangement on this one.

now it comes to the step of image selecting. In the beginning, I wanted to do something that is combined by a numerous photos (a combination of at least 5 to 6 images into one). The images originally planned are something surealistic, for example, the repetition of the same objects in one space or a party inside a shelf.

after I realize if I make those three images too complicate and nothing to connect them in between, they wont be looking like a series.

therefore, I start to simplify what major ideas i want my picture to present, and use elements such as cage, shadow and net to present the idea of “stealing/been took away”.

those three will be combined with the following photos:

THE FUN THIEF

THE HEART THIEF

THE FREEDOM THIEF

-To decide a main concept for a serial project really took me a lot of time on thinking

-hours and hours of browsing others’ works and web images, wished something will came out

-finally, after i scanned ober 30 to 40 pictures from magazines, albums… i decide to pick the word “thief” -as my major concept.

the work will be presented vertically as the way the human body is.-those three pieces stand for the different parts of our body- they are the brain (fun thief), body(heart thief), and feet (freedom thief).

then the next step is to pick the right images and start to work on combining. however, it starts to feel a bit easier now