Little Red Riding hood

So this is my first post so ill include everything that i have been working on around this project. After week one I really set out to think about this in a different way. I generally get bored at work so I did a lot of sketching there which and then in a conversation with a friend about them being a vegetarian it hit me! My angle on little red riding hood came about. I wanted to portray a person who eats meat from my friends eyes as a vego.

ok so im having trouble loading images now so ill load them all in a separate post.

Well the pictures are of a stake being the wolf, and a Broccoli being little red riding hood. I took this view because to my friend they sometimes felt pressure from people to eat meat. Making me think that in the little red riding hood case maybe the wolf is a steak being a domineering character. And little red and piece of broccoli.

So thats it so far. I will try to get the images up soon!

I obviously hand drew my images. I did each one on a separate piece of paper each and then brought them together in photo shop.

For the First exercise. Coloring, I chose solid colors that best represented the characters and the item of food that they where being portrayed as. I have had a little bit of practice with photo shop before so used selection techniques such as the pen tool, magic wand, and magnetic lasso to make selections. Once selected i just filled in the selections with the chosen colors.

When I put the images up you will recognise that it is quiet "cartoony" I do like this look and that's why I chose to leave the background blank.


For the second part of the first assignment, texture. I really wanted to try and get the textures correct. I had a look on the internet at some photoshop tutorials and found a great one on how to make a wood grain texture which worked perfectly for my door.

What I did was start with a blank canvas and fill it in with a brown. I then added noise to the canvas. Put a motion blur on it and then duplicated the layer. I made the duplicated layer almost opaque and then added a poster edges to that layer. This really gave the wood grain effect. I then used the swirl tool to add in some knots!

I think the finish product for the door looks great!

For the steak i used a gradient and made the dominate colors red and black. For the fat around the edges i used a solid color and then a soft brush to give a little bit of dimension to it.

For Little red the broccoli I first colored it with solid colors. I then used different filters to gain the textured look. For her coat I had a tartan image stuck in my head for some reason. So i just created my own stamp on a blank canvas and then pasted it all over the selected area!