Week 9: Digital Version of Sketches

This is my digital version of one of my sketches. I made this by using Photoshop. The process in making this required much time and patience. The necessary steps in creating this were first making the radio where I was showing the man escaping from. I made this by using the rectangular marquee tool and also the elliptical marquee tool. Creating the radio, I made different size rectangles and then adding circles for the speakers and buttons. I also added a text box into one of the rectangles to show a different radio station other than 88.3 (XX.X). Using the polygonal lasso tool, I made a place in the radio where the person was escaping from. Next, I made the barbed wire fence. I made this by using the line tool to make the top and bottom. I then used the rectangular marquee tool to make long parts of the fence. Using the pen or brush tool, I drew the top of the fence or the wire. After this, I made the path that led the person escaping to the other radio by using the polygonal lasso tool. I then made the radio in which the person was trying to reach. I made this by using the rectangular and elliptical marquee tool. I also used the text box to create 88.3 in other circle on the radio. Making the music notes and arrows I used custom tool shapes.  I used the text box again to put in 88.3 within the arrows. I also rotated to arrows to face the other way to show the direction in which the person is going. Finally, I created the people or stick figures. I used the same tools, elliptical and rectangular marquee tools. I rotated their arms and legs where I wanted them and also to make them follow the path going down. All the color was added using the paint bucket tool. I arranged things this way to make it seem as if the person was escaping the ordinary radio, finding a path to the unordinary radio, and then finally reaching it. I used many layers which allowed me to have order. I also put many layers into groups to move the whole image I created. For everything in this digital version, I used scale to make things either smaller or larger. For the speakers on the newer radio or ordinary radio, I made them pop out by adding a layer style. I increased the depth and size, and softened the structure within Bevel and Emboss. I am controlling the viewers’ eye by drawing their attention to the speakers of the ordinary radio then to the arrows which show the path the person is going down and the arrows also have 88.3 in bright red. The 88.3 in the old radio and the music notes also catch the viewers’ eye.  This is a digital version of my sketch. It means that this is my interpretation of escaping from the ordinary radio. I am trying to say that this version related to 88.3’s slogan of “The Escape from Ordinary Radio.”