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1. Experiments
Andrew Downes

2. Process
• I took inspiration from the Dementors from the Harry Potter
series and Nazgul from the Lord of the Rings series this was
quite difficult to make as I got an outline of someone doing
the same pose and took the torso and drew the draping cloak
around it and before this I had deleted the ends of the arms to
add the gloves and the sword without anything looking wrong
and then I also decided to redraw the arms and their drapes
by bringing the arms up higher than they were which in the
end screwed up the bracers and made the bracer disconnect
from the arms and then the fingers covered by the gloves
were disastrous when being drawn, and the the sword is
alright but you can see that I was getting lazy at the end with
the sword end being off of centre by quite a lot, but the tools I
used to make this piece was the pencil I was a bit boring and
stayed with the say size of pencil marking, I also used the
rubber quite a lot as to try and correct some of the issues I
have mentioned, I was also pretty lazy with the colouring
scheme as shown by the use of the paint bucket tool and as
you can probably see there are a few places that I had missed
with the tool one of the pieces I meant to leave out now I look
at it again there are two pixels and a massive gap next to the
sword all the other gaps are intentional and that’s it really I
just drew it and then coloured it in. This design was also
helped along by the responses from my questionnaire which
suggested in some ways and more than once it proved that
the audience wanted some sort of action related character
and so I did that and then added a little spin and gave it a bit
of mystery as you can not see the face and it seems to be
some sort of spectre so it mixes in with one of the other things
from my questionnaire which was the genre of horror I believe
is in the genre or at the very least slightly related to the
subject.

3. Process 2
I got inspiration for this piece by another two
things. Marvels The Punisher series and then
there was the headless horseman tale which I
tried to bring into a more modern setting. I
created this by getting a picture taken with
someone in an open reefer and a plain shirt
underneath it I traced the clothes and then
added personal design such as the punisher
logo and the scarf and the cloth tied to his arm
I also gave him a pumpkin head as that would
conform to what the legends say bout the
headless horseman and at the top of that I
made the stalk which as a bad idea I decided
to separate where the colours would change
and in the end in this drawing it ended up
looking better because of that.

4. Process2 coloured

5. Reflection
• What elements of your experiments will you include in your
final product?
– Well I like the design of both of the designs but really the
colouring let it down however on the first one I could fix one
thing in the design which was to create more mystery maybe
add a red mist in the cloak and maybe give it a dark aura or
something of the sort. For the things I would like to keep would
be the design , as one is made for action and horror and the
other was made just for the horror part and then when it came
down to comparing the two I believe I prefer the first design at
the top because it seems to be a more complicated design and it
also seems more intricate and actually relates to what I have in
mind for the project, where-as when it comes to the second
design it seems interesting however it doesn’t pay to much of
an attribute to what I believe is going to be in the final projects.

6. Reflection
• What tools did you use/ how did you use them and discuss strengths and weaknesses?
1. I used the pencil and the paintbrush tool and I just used it as usual to draw an outline to the experiments and
also used them for a few of the smaller more intricate lines this was an easy to control tool as you could use it
free hand or you could hold shift and create straight lines using this method and then there was the sliders for
the line strength and the size of the lines you create this was easy to use when you used the arrow keys to
control it however if you used the slider the result can be unpredictable if you have a shaky hand as I do.
2. I also used the magic wand tool to select areas which had small little intricate details and used that tool to
select these areas however if at certain places if you didn’t complete the drawing and then it would select the
area you wanted to highlight or add shadow and then it also selected the rest of the picture and the design.
3. I also used the paint can tool to colour in large areas such as the background of process 2 and the shirt on the
same one and on process 1, almost all of the cloak is made with the same grey colour and that was all done
with the paint can tool it has quite a few down sides to it such as if you aren’t careful and complete the whole
outline of the drawing then it can colour in the whole product or character design also there is very little control
such as at the same time you can’t add shading unless you drew in the for the shaded areas.
4. I also used a tiny bit of Gaussian blur for the eyes of the pumpkin jack o lantern and also for the mouth however
it didn’t really work out and so I decided to remove it the one issue I have with this method is that you need to
have everything on different layers so that you can use the Gaussian blur and if you don’t the whole image gets
blurred.
5. To select the colours I used the colour selector tool to collect all the different colours I needed to use for the
different areas on the different projects throughout the production of all the pieces on my FMP there are only a
few issues I had with this tool such as when I first started to use it I had difficulty selecting the correct colour
such as when choosing a dark red sort of colour such as crimson it turned out to be more like a maroon sort of
shade however this was easy enough to fix as I enlarged the colour selector tool making it easier to see the
tools this could have been done through clicking on the small boxes which had the colours you were using and
an enhanced version of the colour selector tool appears in the middle of the screen.