TAKE 10 CHALLENGE
Judged by designers Leta Sobierajski and Wade Jeffree
Create an original artwork from 10 predefined Adobe Stock images.
Represent the theme “ZESTY” in your art.
Represent the theme “ZESTY” in your art.
Judged by designers Leta Sobierajski and Wade Jeffree
Concept
Before looking to deeply into the details of each image provided, I thought about and mapped out what Zesty means. In the dictionary, Zesty is defined as “energetic and active”, or something like food that is “agreeably pungent or sharp in taste or flavor; pleasantly biting or tart.”
At first I thought of citrus fruits, juices, tropical, vibrant colours and movement and energy. That took me to thinking of other themes like Brazilian dance and Mermaids and finally Flamenco dance.
Research
Flamenco is Zesty – It’s passionate, very energetic. The dynamic flowing movements are punctuated with strong sharp poses.
Pinterest was my go to source to study shape, movement, poses and photographic treatments.
Sketching
Based on my references I did a number of thumbnails to work out the pose and a draft sketch to get basic shapes to trace in Photoshop with the pen tool.
Execution
To incorporate the images so they seamlessly fit together I went with paper craft look. Granted it was created purely in Photoshop, it would be nice to do it for real.
A few notes on achieving the looks of certain parts: