A few more silhouettes!

The feedback I got about my silhouettes was "Although meant to be quick, silhouettes need to be more considered and contain deeper thought into the choice of shape / form intended for further development." so I thought I would have a little bit more of a play with them, this will also loosen me up and get a few conceived ideas out of my head.

I also wanted to explore shapes more and found Alchemy is one of the best ways to do it, I always struggle to do silhouettes in Photoshop as all my silhouettes end up very human and stick man-like. Alchemy give me that certain inhuman shape I am looking for with these torture device characters.

There were the results.

I wanted a little more of a rounder shape for some as the Pear of Anguish has the curvy bell shape to it and because it is also a very benign device, it doesn't look threatening. The Rat Torture and Iron Maiden are a little more harsh because of the nature of the devices, I went with more spiky shapes and more square because for the Iron Maiden its a bulky object and must be represented as such visually, the spikes because of the inside of the Iron Maiden. The rat torture also features spikes to represent the bucket that held the rats, these can be developed further in Photoshop to make them bigger when I do my values and colours.

I'm not sure if I want to do any more with the silhouettes, I got a lot of nice shapes here and I need to stop being so obsessive with them, Nigel said do hundreds but I honestly don't think I can.

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In anatomy we've started adding leg muscles, it's really progressing quite nicely. It's so fascinating watching it all come together! I'm still rusty with all the technical names, but I can start to recognise particular muscle groups during weekly bouts of watching wrestling so it must be impacting me somewhere!

Starting the creative journey.

I seem to get along with doing these weekly posts, as two week events, especially at the moment with life being so hectic. In the few weeks coming I will attempt to make time and sit myself down and get something done. In this regard I am my own worst enemy with forcing my brain to sit and just write.

So ahead with the post, sipping a cool glass of OJ I sat and looked through my research images and I can totally agree with the feedback I got from Nigel, there is just so much, so many images! The start of this creative journey can only begin with a clean out and a reshuffle. I need to select a few relevant images for each torture device and each inspiring image. So out of like 300 images I will get around 40/50 in total, still a lot but I do like to have a selection. I am aiming to have just enough to start my Silhouettes and values,

Pear of Anguish: Anjou

Iron Maiden: Claustrum

Rat Torture: Bubónica