Week 5: Craft Focus 2

Craft
This time around, I started using the paint brush tool to add in specific details. They are still very general for the shoe in the background, just enough to get the point across, as that shoe is out of focus to begin with. The foreground shoe uses more specific shapes with the pen tool and zooming in for more detail.
Some of the more patchy area of tint or shade were painted on instead of using the pen tool. It was less percise which I thought made it look more like a glare for effect rather than specific details.
Concept
It is still my old shoes.
Composition
Again, the shoe in the front takes the viewer's eye.

Week 4: Craft Focus

Craft
For the first project, I chose which shoe photo to use and started laying out general color shapes for each shoe with the pen tool using a series of anchors and the eye dropper tool. Then I started from the background, which included the shoe in the back that is slightly out of focus.
Each of the shapes werer determined by the shape of a certain area of color or shade of color. I tried to start going from dark to light colors but a majority of the lighter colors were in the background, so I tried to go from the lights to the darks. Neither way was really working out, since the end result looked like patches instead of a gradual transistion from color to col0r, shade to light.
I thought that perhaps adding more and more patches might solve the problem, but it made everything more complicated. Later, changing the colors for the composition purposes is going to be difficult, since every patch is seperate and unique and does not follow any particular flow.
Concept
The concept is simply an illustration of my old shoes.
Composition
As for right now the shoe in the foreground captures the viewer's eye as it takes up half the page.