(The thumbnails at the bottom right are samples of work I did the year before)
My Method
This looks like i just arranged things in my living room and took a photo. If you look closer these objects aren't really realistic - low hanging lamps close together, over-sized kids typwritter, and obvioulsy the plane flying above my head-and so it's a collage made from photos i took at Vintage Century Homes just around the corner of my house. This is a vintage home store i often walk around in the brainstorming period of a project. I get a lot of good ideas for colors, shapes, and atmosphere here. This image of my living room should really represent my creative brain in the playful, magical realism perspective I choose to use for most of my projects.
My Troubles...
So, this project was way harder than it needed to be. All because i couldn't get the white space around the extracted objects (that i used to create my living room) to go away when i placed them in illustrator. I pulled an all nighter just trying to figure this out.
Eventually, Edger at the digital aquarium made two clicks within the photoshop layers pallet to make this work. I felt like a fool having been able to do this task all last year and suddenly i couldn't? Beats me!?
Anyway, I also bought Epson paper (expensive, quality paper) for the first time yet Kinkos can't deal with paper larger than 11 x 17. As design excuses normally unfold, I found this out just thirty minutes before class. Therefore, I had to used thier "over-sized printer" which comes out in scrolls and uses paper that's the equivilant of recycled sketching paper - bad stuff! I want to edit it and re-matt it so it looks the way it should have. Overall, it looks pretty cool to me. I want to take this method further though...
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