This is one of my first assignments for my design concepts class: a collage. Its purpose is to illustrate me, or something about me.
My Initial goal was to portray an old hobby I decided to revisit – with a contemporary twist.
I love biking, and I used to go mountain biking back home in Colombia; since I’m also a city dweller, I haven’t had the chance to do much biking off-road. Well, thanks to the increase in gas prices, I decided to start biking to work, and so I tried to capture that theme with the collage.
I must say, I don’t like collages as its hard for be to visualize what I want and then work towards that. But in this case, my idea was to try to portray me (and my bike) against the backdrop of the city and or the road. In this case, I tried to work towards that and feel somewhat satisfied with the result. It’s not exactly what I had in mind, but I’ll take it.
I had a tough time extracting the bike out of the background, but It’s very cool to be able to place it anywhere on the illustration without worrying about edges, mismatch in background color, etc.
temas: collage > design > photoshop
