For this project I was asked to create my first Sustained Investigation piece. I chose to explore the question "Why do we create fantasy? /How do we separate fantasy and reality?" I have this girl surrounded by technology in a fantasy world taking inspiration from our world that she can see in pocket watch while she becomes surrounded by crystals.
Above are the original images found on Unsplash.
Above is my process in screenshots. I started by bringing in the crystals that I planned to take up most of my background, then I layer masked them to rid the background. Ididnt end up using all of the different images I had originally collected. I placed in the elevator taking up half of the canvas and flipping in horizontally and vertically to then line up. I cut out the girl before cutting out only her arm and moving it to where i wanted her arm to be and removing the old arm. I cut out the pocket-watch and add it behind her hand warping it to add perspective and putting the city background where the watch face would be. I then took to editing the color values of each separate image to fit into the same environment. I added a color fill of pink over the elevator layers and set it to soft light. I edited the rest of the layers using the camera raw filter to make respective layers cooler toned and under a more blue/purple light. To finish I added a dark purple color fill layer on Linear Light to create shadows, erasing where I wanted light to hit.
