Last stop.

I was going back to campus on the same day and i was passing through castle garden and I took those shots while standing on the bridge over Soar River to go in the garden. In the image you can see Newarf accommodation which will be erased and instead will be colorful building just like Venice and this is when i considered on making half the bridge look like Venice and the other half like Leicester which is full of trees, nature and gardens as posted in a previous blog. The swans are an extra benefit which shows the river life in Leicester and the one in the grand canal in Venice. Furthermore you can see the bridge on Newarke Street which add a little effect of oldness to the city located in.

Drawing the building on the side is basically following the drawing method of the one point perspective and by using this method it'll be easier to draw and give it a realistic touch because as you can see in the original picture if we extend every horizontal line of Newarf buildings they will meet in one point alongside the borders of the river just behind the bridge.

-Joe

The same sunday afternoon.

After frog Island, i went back towards campus but first i stopped on the bridge on St Augustine road and took few shots while standing on the bridge and later on went down the stairs and took other shots river side. I liked the pictures taken on the bridge, they show more the ambiance of the river and makes it more venice ish because of the presence of bridges and because of the presence of pedestrians walking down the river, the editing will look more realistic but what makes the image desperate is the white grey sky. Those images are the original ones but i will edit them and add more effects as well as a blue sky.

-Joe

The major project.

For this term, my major project should consist of 5 to 10 pieces of work fully edited and completed.
The project of venicester on improving day after day although most of my tries were fails but i'm sticking to it till the end.
i'm sharing photographs i took on a journey around Leicester. Not all the pictures are necessarily included in my major project but i surely tried to edit them. 
This picture was taken at frog island around 3:30 pm on the 1 of November, a Sunday afternoon. I will probably change the sky  just because it does not have this blue colour and it looks bright and very white and certainly i'll draw buildings on the river side.
what i like about this picture is the nature around the river. It looks similar to Venice with all the green natures just like on balconies in Venice  but what may be a problem to my project is the reflection of trees in the water but i'll manage to edit it up somehow. 

-Joe

Final design:

 Here it is, the final editing of the poppy. The seed is a bomb and the petal is a poster from WWI and as posted before the stem is a gun and the petals are old medals. This is my rememberable poppy design for this year, hope you like it.

-Joe

Before

After

Poppy Day:

As i already posted about the project, this is a screenshot of the process on photoshop. The petals will be made out of pictures of well knows figures of WWI. The effect were basic ones such as transform and erase and filling capacity.

-Joe

A one day Project:

Today is November 10 which means it's remembrance day in the UK. In digital art today we have to edit a picture already given to us and make it more interesting and related to remembrance day so based on my quick researches and ideas, i'll photoshop the poppy and add military medals as the leaves, and a riffle for the stem. I didn't pick an idea for the petals but when i do i'll blog it.

-Joe

The start...

On Friday i rented a camera from the university for the weekend to start my major project by shooting river Soar. It was my lucky weekend. the sun was out finally and i wouldn't miss my chance to go around Leicester with my camera to take the pictures.
I went for a walk and ended up at frog island and took some pictures but the quality of the landscape wasn't what i expected it to be so i changed my location and went to kings garden and positioned myself on the metal bridge right above the river which gave me the possibility of capturing both sides of the river but what was bothering me about my pictures was the presence of the trees on the boarder of river Soar. There is no trees in venice specially on the sides of the grand canal. But eventually i got the idea of keeping the trees so that one side belonged to Leicester and the other to digital Venice.
I will be sharing my pictures soon with a little bit of editing but first feel free to comment on the idea given whether it'll fit with the main idea of the project or no.

-Joe