Meta-4 II
Learning the fundamentals of design & composition
The design challenge was to create an “interesting” composition with given assets and a constrained number of elements we could include. For this version, we could use four elements, where a layered image counted as one image, and an image masked by a shape counted as one element.
I combined the assets below to create the composition above. I used Photoshop to complete this project.
Project Date: February 2019
The Raw Materials
Annotation
I blended the ampersand into the textured image to cause it to appear raised on the painted wall. I then overlaid this combined image onto the large 3D shape. I inverted the entire object and placed an edited version of the couple in a boat on the flat and lit side of the object to cause it to appear atop it, leaving the ripples in play. I changed the color of the other 3D graphic to complement the bright magenta paint splotch on the textured image on the large 3D object and arranged the smaller along the opposite edge in a complementary, balanced fashion. I placed the entire thing on top of the X array, masking a bright yellow image contrasting with the magenta and featuring black objects that just peak out from the underside, and possibly suggest the shape of birds. The entire thing feels strange and perhaps dystopian: a pair of humans in a boat atop a crumpled, sharp-edged cloud sitting atop a pair of birds, X’d out.