Links.

Its about time I gave you all a definitive list of links to my work. so here they are:
https://www.facebook.com/HarriePilkingtonsartworks
https://www.behance.net/vampyr
http://biohazard-harree.deviantart.com/
http://instagram.com/vampyrr

Photoshop tutorial: reducing tungsten dicolouration and photo shine.

This post is dedicated to teaching my self a few things in Photoshop. I don't know where to begin so if one wants to learn, one should teach. I'll be running through just experimenting seeing how certain tools work and how they enhance an image. 

This is the basic image that I'll be messing around with. Its a illustration done with biro.

Here all I have done is gone to Image → Auto colour. This has removed the dicolouration from the photo taken in indoor (tungsten) light. I have also cropped the image to remove some of the negative space around the illustration.

Here I have used the Burn tool all over the image to get rid of the shine from the photo. It has made the whole image a bit darker however it does still have a bit of shine on it but there isn't much more we can do about that.

Here I have used the Dodge tool to re-highlight the vivid red areas as they began to blend into black with the last step.

Here I have gone to Images → Adjustments →Exposure and put the Gamma correction to 0.79. This has made the image a lot darker without adjusting the contrast. After that I went over the vivid red areas again with the dodge tool. This image looks a lot less washed out than the previous.

I feel like this is a good base image to use for more obvious editing and enhancing.

Just messing around with filters, layers and whatnot...

File types.

Do please excuse this hella boring post, its compulsory for my course. This post just briefly details file types and the differences between them. 

Here are some file types:
.PNG
.GIF
.PSD
.JPG
.Tiff

The file extention basically tells the computer what programme to open the file in for it to open and function correctly.

Differences between files:

.PNG (Portible Network Graphics).

• The file can have transparent spaces and the opacity can be altered.
• Interlacing is supported and develops the image faster than a GIF file.
• 'Gamma correction' allows you to change the colour and brightness specified by various monitor manufacturers.
• Images can be saved using true color as well as in the palette and gray-scale formats provided by the GIF.
• It doesn't support animated files.

.GIF (Graphics Interchange 

• Its a compressed image file format.
• .GIFs are based on indexed colors, which is a palette of at most 256 colors.
• Quickly and easily sent as the size is greatly reduced form orginal size.
• Can support animation and are good for icons but lack the size for high quality images.

.PSD (Photoshop Document).

• Supports layered files and allows for work to done to the files individual layers even after the file has been saved.
• Once the image is finished, it can be flattened and be converted to .JPG, .GIF or .Tiff to allow it to be shared easier via the web.
• Once the image has been flattened, it cannot retrive the different layers.

.JPG (JPEG Joint Photographics Experts Group).

• Often used to format files that do not require a lot of space for detail.
• .JPG files lose detail as they  are converted from whatever they were to .JPG.
• Images with this format have often been taken with a digital camera.
• Whilst the size compression does lose detail from the image, .JPG doesn't loos as much detail as .GIF files.

.Tiff (Tagged Image File Format).

• Used for images in graphic design as it can be saved without compression.
• Often used for print design or desktop publishing, as they can store large high quality images.

information found on these sites:

http://graphicdesign.about.com/od/Definitions/g/Tiff-Files.htm

http://graphicdesign.about.com/od/Definitions/g/Jpg-Files.htm

http://whatis.techtarget.com/fileformat/PSD-Adobe-Photoshop-default

http://www.techterms.com/definition/gif

http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/definition/PNG

Lost and found.

Just found a few studies from last year that I'm quite proud of. No real significance to current project but I would like to think they're worth sharing.

3D study progress.

Hello all, I've finally finished the 3d study of the neuron sans le nucleus and membrane (which I'll upload that study shortly). This study is made from copper wires, some kind of cheap spongy crap and mod-roc. The colours I've used to spray it are Peugeot cherry red, cool grey and a fleshy yellow that I've forgotten the name of. Also a few photos of me looking steampunk as hell! Thanks to a college mate of mine, Callum Caine, for taking the photos.

 

The whole study is about 1.3 meters long and is quite heavy and flimsy. The next study I'll be making out of Climaflex (the foam that goes around pipes to stop them freezing and bursting when its cold) as its is a loat lighter and I can shape it easily using a heat gun, meaning I don't have to flesh it out with mod-roc. 

Details of the dendrites sans le nucleus and membrane.

Detail of the synapses. The next 3d study I will be moulding the ends with clay (they shan't be too heavy as they're only small little details).

Overall I am very proud of this study and theres only a few alterations I need to make in order to make a sturdy, lightweight sculpture that could infact be suspended without it being a health and safety hazard.

Mock interview for foundation studies in art and design.

I found out on Tuesday that my interview was today so its safe to say I was a bit worried having not prepared that much. I spent all of yesterday mounting work and running what I was going to say through my head. Despite my worrying I went really quite well. Yaay.
We just talked about what I want to do after college, told them about my plans to go around Europe, broaden my artistic capabilities from  a fresh perspective and take in some of the modern artistic culture before heading off to uni. We also talked about what artists influence me and how I stay updated with modern artists as well as how I want to break into fine art.
I shant go on about our conversation but I was really good to talk about it and I feel it went very very well and I worried for no reason! 

Laurie Frick: A fine line between art and neuroscience.

Here Frick has used mundane household items and arranged them to reflect the patterns seen in EEG scans. This reflects how the things we do that have become a part of our very existence that we hon think about are reflected into the physical world outside of our our minds.

Heres a link to some of her works on this subject http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2011/03/wood-paper-and-cardboard-collage-by-laurie-frick/.