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Digital Art.

For my digital art unit i have been looking at different elements of digital art that flow in and out of all my other units. Photography, Film, Digital collage, Photo manipulation, Digital Illustration.


Matt Herring is  London based Illustrator and graphic artist working in the fields of Advertising, Design and Publishing.


This piece of his work really stood out to me....




I love how it looks and i wanted to try and make something inspired by it so i started playing...













I really liked using the circles but i wanted to play around more with colour as he did in some of his other work...







 I realized how much my Photoshop abilities had grown this past year as i could make these very quickly and easily. I realized how much i love working digitally because it allows me the freedom to express what i am trying to say and let me add all the other elements i love, photography and drawing. 
I wanted to take this time to think about my theme for this unit, Environment. 
I started thinking about my collages i had made earlier this year to the theme environment At this point i had been making collages for my unit surface pattern so decided to have them running for both units. Urban, Rural, Environment.














I was worried about this digital art unit, because I felt I had not done any work for it, but obviously most of my units are a form of digital art and I have looked at artists that work digitally. 

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