John's Workshop 5: Richard Hamilton

In this workshop, we had to create a similar, more modern piece that took inspiration from the above piece of art by Richard Hamilton. We had to create it with a more modern approach, combining different influential elements from the current time period. This would have examples such as Apple and Android phones which I have included in my interpretation. Another piece that I have also added to my art is that in the view for the window, there is a line of people that are walking across the horizon in a line with their shadows stretched out across the ground. This is to simulate when people line up to get the newest technology such as Apple computers or phones.

In the scan above, you can see the initial 2 sketches that I did for different ideas just so I had idea of what to do when I tried to draw it more fully. On the left in the middle is the drawn-out version using a charcoal pencil that added more detail to the image. Then next to it was the same image drawn with a fine liner and he coloured in with Kurecolor pens which gave a very vibrant look to the piece.

Here is my attempt at using Adobe Illustrator. As I normally use Photoshop because I am more used to it, for this piece I used illustrator because unlike Photoshop it uses Vector imaging where if you zoom in an out there is no pixilation in the image. However this is not complete as i found the instruments diffilcult to use. For an extended project, i could work on this more or use the Adobe Capture application to take a picture of what i have drawn out, which is then converted into a vector image.

The following images is an example of how the Adobe Capture app works.

Original Drawing

Drawing added to Adobe Capture application