Friday, February 29, 2008

Dreaming of the Alps...

I do very little digital work, preferring to be hands-on handmade. Still, its a useful skill to have and I'm keen to learn everything I can while at college. We had a photoshop workshop today, and although I'm fairly familiar with the program, the wonderful tutor showed me a few tricks I hadn't seen before. While I was playing around with the software, I made the digital collage above based on one of yesterday's in-location drawings ...

I quite like how it came out ... you can just about imagine this bearded fellow sitting at a cafe in Bristol with his cigarette and coffee, and headphones on, listening to the gentle sounds of ... "Yodelers of the Swiss Alps" ... or something ;)

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well that's inventive. Make a great travel ad.

Lindsay said...

What a clever idea! He really does look like an alpine guy. I'm trying to figure out ways to do collage also and you have , yet again, inspired me!

rama hughes said...

i'm so excited for your birthday portrait party, mithi! (if you send pictures or scans, i'll post'm.) have fun!

Anonymous said...

Oh I just adore this one! So quirky and fun.

Maggie said...

That's such a great image.

Having a rest day today after spending 2 days cleaning half of the front room and re-arranging furniture a bit... Still have to finish the front half! So am playing catch-up on your blog, you do such interesting work. :-)