Scott Grant
Research
Primary Research
This is research that is gained via methods that you yourself have gained.
Methods like creating surveys and sending them out to people, taking your own pictures, and drawing with things that you physically have are considered Primary Research.
Secondary Research
This is research that is gained via using someone else's product.
Methods like using someone's tutorial, looking through someone's blog, using pre-taken pictures, magazines, news, and other people's interviews are considered Secondary Research.
Sometimes there is an overlap between these two types, with Primary Research methods that relay on other people, similar to Secondary Research methods
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Practical Skills/Experiments
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Visits/Trips
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Surveys
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Fictional TV Shows/Movies
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Interviews Of Industry Professionals
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Photos You Have Taken Yourself
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Speeches
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Observational Drawings
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Video Tutorials
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Moodle Online Course
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Factual TV Shows/Movies
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Books and Magazines
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Diagrams and Infographics
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News Articles
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Lesson Resources
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Drawing From An Image
Reliable Sources + Why
The LTC
Large amount of resources available that are relatively easy to get, so if you want to look at something broad or something specific you can look through the LTC and find them.
BBC News
Due to being publicly available and well known, you can be sure that it will give a lot of proof-checked results for what you're looking for.
Google Scholar
A search tool that when given words/information searches for trustworthy sources, making it highly recommended for students.
Wikipedia
This website is editable by anyone, it has had a long history of people editing pages with misinformation. However when information is trustworthy it is clear and unbiased.
Daily Express
I haven't had much experience but looking through the website there's certain issues with it as a large amount of the articles contain writing that feels too much like it's from someone's point of view rather than expressing information formally, with few exceptions. Biased aswell.
Youtube
Due to being a public platform, there's a large amount of content that can be questionable in its reliability since anyone can do it. Certain channels can be trustworthy however
Blogs
Since blogs are public use, available to anyone, we can't be sure whether or not a blog is trustworthy.
Pretty much a dumping ground. A vast majority of it is user-made and the website has had a long history of troubles associated with it.
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Tim Easley
According to an interview Tim used Adobe Illustrator, with everything being done digitally, with no sketches. In some of the pieces Tim says that they copied and pasted certain assets, changing the colours.
And because of Illustrator being digital, Tim could also use layers and make modifications by sliding parts around. The pieces also have a lot of patterns in them, like dots and lines.
This collection contains 14 illustrations which were done in 1 week.
Adobe Illustrator uses Vectors, has several options for colouring, and has tons of tools that make it one of the best digital tools for illustrating.
Both of these images are part of 2 different collections. Tim Easley's art was for a set of stores called Foot Locker meant specifically for their Nike selection, the collection is called Togetherness.
Loui Jover's art is part of a collection called the Deconstructed series. As far as I know they're a personal project.
Loui Jover
Loui's artwork seems to use Compositing, which is an artform that has a picture being manipulated to have another picture connected to it.
The series utilises images of famous people, seen here with Ludwig van Beethoven, which then gets cut and placed in different positions.
The artist's twitter handle mentioning "hand drawn ink on bookpages" and many of the pieces contain what appears to be ink on paper.
This artist uses Photoshop. Photoshop has many tools like the ability to mas, blend images, and has tons of tools that make it one of the best digital tools for photo editing.
Tim Easley uses purely digital products for their artwork which is drawn with the software being Adobe Illustrator, a vector based art program. Loui Jover mixes real life images of people with real artwork, as in the ink, and composites them using Adobe Photoshop.
Tim's collection was made for a collaboration with a shoe store. Loui's collection was made for themselves.
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Secondary Research
The used Tutorial
First piece made from the tutorial, this was made at the point of creating new Anchors I believe so I moved them a lot
Second piece made from the tutorial, this was at the part where I had to deal with the inconsistencies of the Bezier Curves, making this take too long.
Third piece made from the tutorial, this was done with some slight advice from the teacher and was when I discovered the Anchor Point Tool so it went better than the second piece.
Learning Bezar paths/Pen tool
Using the tutorial on the left I copied what it said to figure out how to utilise the Pen tool and play with Bezar Paths.
And from my experience the method from the video felt really inconsistent.
The Pen tool in itself is alright, creating Anchors and then connecting them to others is fine at first. However I think when I picked a Fill it created a problem where colours appeared automatically so I wasn't able to tell if what I was doing was correct and so I didn't end up closing many of my shapes.
However the problems came from 2 parts.
1. When I had to add an Anchor to a shape most of the time the Anchor didn't join the shape so it was completely separate. It seems that the shape needs to be first selected and only then does the Anchor join in, but the video never said that so I only figured it out at the end.
2. Bezier Curves according to the video was done by holding the Option key with the Pen tool hovering over the Anchors. But I ended up in situations where the pen tool seemingly wasn't interacting with the Anchor at all, and sometimes it had an actual symbol showing that nothing would happen. I had to use a separate tool called the Anchor Point Tool for it and it was much easier, in fact I think this actually the exact same thing that holding Option with the Pen tool does, and simply selecting the tool feels much easier than doing what the tutorial said.
Comparing the Pen to the Brush tool, the brush felt more simpler to understand and use while the pen felt fine at first when you're just clicking at areas but when you delved into more complex things it was a mess.
I doubt that I'd use this tool if I was to make an illustration, or at least I wouldn't use it for the actual art, maybe part of a sketch.
Photoshop Brushes
Photoshop is rather special with its brushes as they're fully customisable and are overall integral to how Photoshop can be best utilised.
Upon selecting the brush tool you gain access to the brush settings, which contain a lot of choices upfront.
From the first page you can change the size, roundness, angle, roundness, hardness, and you can even change the spacing. You have about 30 choices for brush shapes.
However the other pages can let you play with texture, colour dynamics, shape dynamics, and more. It's a very deep system.
The Tutorial I used was from searching on Photoshop's Help section, and I can't find a way to link it.
If you can, look for a video called "How to use Photoshop brushes"
Made using purely Brushes
I was caught up on writing this page and figuring out the tools so I accidentally did all of this piece on the background layer.
Now I wasn't able to fully test these options, due to not fully understanding or figuring out how best to utilise them. However of what I've done it's fine so far.
But I can be sure that there's a ton of uses with brushes, I haven't even been able to test how brushes interact with pictures, one of the defining parts of Photoshop.
If I was to an illustration on Photoshop I feel like I'm already obliged to use brushes.
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Primary Research
This part was made after Secondary Research's page
The task for this goal was to create a piece utilising a character, object, real life people, et cetera. and make it using techniques we used previously in workshops.
The main techniques that were utilised were layering and sketching. Utilising a sketch. and an image at one layer and the main work done on another.
However this was before I fully used layers to the best of their ability so I only had 3 of them.
The original sketch.