Week 15: Final Draft of Bike Lakeview

Craft

This is my final draft of the digital painting of Bike Lakeview. I made this by using Photoshop and a very few amount of tools. The necessary steps in creating this were very easy. Since I already had an idea from my previous draft I wanted to simplify my final draft. The first step was using the gradient tool and making the background rainbow because Lakeview has a gay community. Next, I used the text tool and wrote Bike Lakeview, I added in Bike because in my previous draft only said Lakeview. Finally, I used the brush tool to include my bike stamp.

Composition

I arranged things this way because I wanted to keep this project simple and I wanted to use repetition. I used scale and the lightest and darkest values of hues to draw attention to the viewers’ eye. I made some of the bikes very large in scale and some small in scale. I put Lakeview on the bottom of the document because since this is going on a pole, the bottom and middle are seen the most. I am controlling the viewers’ eye by making the background really stand out. The bright rainbow background draws the viewers’ attention but also makes the other layers of bikes stand out. The viewers’ eye is either drawn to Bike Lakeview since it is at the bottom in bright green or the various bikes which are in the lightest (white) and darkest (black) values. These bikes also stand out because they range in different scales and are repeated within this document.

Concept

This is my final draft of Bike Lakeview. This means that I combined the idea of bike and the neighborhood Lakeview to create “Bike Lakeview.” I am trying to say that the biggest concept I took from the neighborhood was the gay community, therefore I used this as the main idea of Lakeview then incorporated the idea of bike.