Experimentation of digital artwork

Within this project, I wanted to experiment and expand my knowledge on how to do/create digital art. I was inspired to do this from the artist Marcelo Monreal, who I have been doing in-depth research on. All of his artwork is created digitally with photoshop, where he fractures portraits and puts flowers behind the faces. As a result of me not having photoshop, I found an alternative free app on my iPad called ‘Bazaart’ which allowed me to create the same effects to my photo, as photoshop did for his.

This is the picture that I chose to cut out sections of my little brother, I chose this picture as a result of it being at a certain angle where the face will still look right once it has been cut out, as Marcelo Monreal says, depending on the angle of the photo, the cut out can either turn out good or bad. The Bazaart app is also quite similar to Procreate, as it allows you to add and lock layers, cut out images and sections, change opacity of the photo or layer, add in other images and backgrounds as well as stickers and text.

Here are pictures of the process:

I started off by cutting out the right half of his face using the cutting tool. I added a thin line  around the perimeter of the cut out, a little darker than his skin tone, as I found that this added depth to the cut out section.

On the Bazaart app, there are a variety of flowers, which I cut out and added to the cut out section. I allowed some of the flowers to lay over the top of the cut out, and also sent some to the back of the photo. This makes the flowers look layered and look like they are actually blooming from behind his face.

Marcelo Monreal added multiple cut outs to his pieces of work, which inspired me to attempt the same, therefore I added another cut out on the left side of my brothers face, doing the exact same steps as I did with the other cut out.

When doing this section of his face, I decided to do something a little different which I had seen Monreal do in a few pieces of his work,  where he adds multiple layers and rings of skin to one section of the face. I found that doing this made the section a lot more 3D, as if the skin section was actually away from his face.

I then added the cut out face section and the other piece of skin that I had cut out, back into the picture. I realised the face looked unrealistically placed back onto the picture, therefore I decided to add a shadow behind it, as well as behind the other section. This made the section look even more like it had actually been broken away from the  and more realistic.