Eliza Wheeler Emulation

This is my watercolour painting using a similar colour scheme.

 This is my emulation of Eliza Wheeler. I have used the same process but have used my own design to link with my project (Rapunzel).

Here is my design for the top layer.

I then aligned the two layers.

I edited the colours in a similar way, again changing the levels, hue, saturation and lightness.

This is my finished emulation.

Eliza Wheeler Copy

This is the original illustration by Eliza Wheeler that I have copied.

I approached this by using two layers. The bottom layer would be the painting shown below. I did this using watercolour paint.

The top layer would be the black outline. To change the image into an outline I put it into threshold (black and white only). I then deleted the white so that the painting was visible underneath, with the outline sitting on top.

After placing alining the two layers I edited the colours. To do this I changed the levels, hue, saturation and lightness.

This is my finished copy.

Copy and Emulation

This is the original piece I am copying. This copy and emulation was to experiment with technique.

These are my free hand drawings of the copy.

Here are the swatches I used including textures.

I filled the drawings in Illustrator using the pen tool and sometimes a gradient, both linear and radial.

This is all of the filled illustrations.

I duplicated the part of the illustration that needed a texture placed on top so that the size matched. I then changed the fill colour to the textured swatch. This texture was white but slightly transparent so that the colour underneath was visible in the texture.

This is my finished version.

This is my emulation, using the same process but my own designs and colours.

Experimentation

Firstly, I edited my painting and added splats to be stylised like Georgina Luck's work.

I then added an ink painting of a jar. The quality of lighting didn't necessarily matter as I was planning to threshold it.

I put it into threshold.

I then added the strawberry behind this layer. This gives the impression the strawberry is in the jar, although it's got a rough essence with the strawberry not completely inside the jars outlines.

I then edited the colours of the strawberry slightly.

This is the finished outcome, however I wasn't completely happy and felt it was 'bland'.

I added a coloured background, choosing green to complement the red of the strawberry, and light to contrast the highly saturated reds.

I then thought the black outline of the jar was too harsh so changed this to white.

This was the finished outcome, however I still felt it wasn't how I wanted it. I thought the green was too close in shade to the leaves green.

I then changed the colour of the background to a more yellow biased green and lightened it slightly.

I then viewed this and I was happy with it apart from the scanned paper white of the strawberry I felt needed to be transparent.

I selected the colour using the magic wand tool and deleted it.

This is the outcome and I am happy with it. I will be using this process for my final pieces of this project.

Georgina Luck Copy

Georgina Luck is a strong inspiration to my recipe book project. To understand her process I copied four of her illustrations as identical as I could. This is Georgina Luck's original.

To start I did rough drawings of the pumpkins to test colours so that I could identify the perfect colour choices. I did this for each illustration.

I drew each illustration free hand and then painted them using the colour choices I had previously selected.

I also flicked paint onto a page with a green hue so that when it came to change the colouring of the splats I only needed to edit the hue. 

When it came to editing, I mainly changed the levels, hue, lightness and saturation. I kept the original illustration on the page so that I could get the copy as exact as I could.

This is my finished copy.

Observational and Subject Matter Drawings

These drawings are based around a recipe book design. My initial drawings were to experiment with media and colour. I mainly used gouache and watercolour and worked around them with ink or fine liner.

 Further drawing became stylised towards a realistic, full watercolour illustrations. This style was influenced by the illustrator Georgina Luck.