For this weeks tasks I really tried to keep take the feedback I got last week and use it to improve my work this time. I still had a little bit of difficulty but I was definitely able to improve the atmospheric perspective and tone in the thumbnails. I really worked on the advice given in Alec’s lecture, specifically about how the colours change as you get the horizon line and get lighter. I also noticed how he mentioned that the colours and horizon line tend to blend when you get to the line. I really wanted to try capturing this in my work.

I think these thumbnails were better in both their perspective and the tonal values which I added in. When I was getting some feedback, Sarah said that there is definitely an improvement from last week so I’m glad you can see the improvement in my work. She also pointed out that although the perspective of the road is not quite right in the first thumbnail image, you can still see the work on the gradient and tonal values. I really liked thumbnail 4 and 6 in particular. In 4 there is a lot of nice work on the lighting on the rocks and along the river, and the perspective works well. I also liked how the gradient and tonal values out in this image, and you can see how the light hits it. There is also a nice gradient in the sky, leading down to the horizon line. I decided that this would be an interesting image to develop more so I decided to choose it as my HQ image.

The larger thumbnail took me quite a long time to draw, because I wanted to capture quite a lot of detail. I think that I could maybe have taken the perspective a little further and made it a little bit more interesting but I think that it is good that there a difference in sizes between the large castle in the foreground and the city in the background, beside the horizon line. I think that there was some very nice tonal work in the castle and I’ve been able to add depth to the image. I also worked at adding quite a lot of gradient and tonal work into the sky, making the top darkest and getting lighter the further to the horizon line it gets. However, I found that once I exported the image, the colour gradient was not so prominent and it sort of lost a bit of the perspective. I think this was a shame, as it did sort of detract from the perspective work. Sarah gave the feedback that a few stars sprinkled across the sky would help with the perspective as they would only be visible at the top of the image due to the glow of the city lights. Overall, I think that there was a clear improvement in this image compared to the smaller thumbnail of the same design, as well as the images from last week. I still think that I could improve it further by practicing more so I will continue to work on it and develop my atmospheric perspective work.

I also read the book ‘Dream Worlds’ by Hans Bacher, after hearing Alec recommend it during the lecture. I found the book very interesting and it was very helpful in coming up with ideas about how to create a world. I also found it quite helpful in terms of thinking about perspective and looking at how composition works alongside perspective.