Technical Execution: The Road Not Taken

This design is known as 'The Road Not Taken'. It tries to show two different pathways, one through the 'phone zone', which ends in disaster and one through the 'no phone zone' which ends well.

This here is the initial sketch

First I drew back the lines to get them connected and make it easier to use the wand tool.

Then I used the wand tool to select the areas and colour them with paint bucket.

And with the pencil tool i touched up the whole drawing.

Next I used to burn tool to give the wrecked car a smokey effect

And as for the other cars in the 'phone zone' I used the warp option

To do stuff like this.

Then for the wrecked car, I used the smudge tool to try and make it seem as if it is burning.

I added a few lines of orange and yellow,

And made this.

Next I wanted to make a more memorable sky so I selected the whole blue sky with the wand tool and layered it.

Then I placed a very vividly coloured sky on top of the art piece.

And adjusted the layer arrangements. However I felt that the bright red colours on the right were contradictory to what was happening to the burning car in the middle so,

I used the marquee tool to select a portion of the background,

And copied it as a layer,

And flipped it horizontally. However, seeing that the two layers were not connected in the middle, I merged them,

And used the patch tool to try and blur the line.

And then I used the blending options to adjust the opacity as to not outshine the foreground.

Next I selected the buildings at the back

And adjusted their blending options, giving it an inner shadow and outer glow.

As for the bottom half of the art piece, I had to deviate from my original sketch because I was unable to make it happen the way I would have liked. So I inserted an image of a red line.

And that would be meant to be as the flow of blood but it did not show two contrasting sides as the upper half of the art piece did so

Using the clone stamp tool, I recreated two thirds of the line but this time

I made a lump of blood at the end, as if signalling an end of life.

Thus, here is my final design.

Technical Execution: Distraction

My next design is called 'Distraction'. Which tries to portray how a phone call can disrupt the person who is driving thus leading to disaster.

This is the initial sketch

What I did first was to connect all the lines so that it would be easier for me to use the wand tool.

Then with the wand tool I selected large areas of the drawing and filled them with paint bucket

Next I chose a sky background and put it into the drawing.

Then I adjusted the layer arrangements and the sky's blending options.

After that was done, I used the lasso tool to select a portion of the fingertip.

Then using the paint bucket, burn and smudge tools, I created a bleeding effect on all the fingers.

Next I noticed some words at the top of the sky background so using the clone stamp tool I got rid of it.

So after all that it looked something like this.

Next I started working on the eye's pupil, I layered it with cut

Then blending options once again I used colour overlay to create my own shade.

Then I layered the ear

And applied blending options such as bevel and emboss and stroke.

And did the same for the hand.

Next I chose a sandy layer and placed it on the art piece.

And adjusted the arrangement of the layers and opacity of the layer as I saw fit.

Next I used the filter gallery to select a texture for the sky.

I used a texture known as 'Fresco'

And made this.

And the final design is this.

Technical Execution: Left Hanging

My first design is called 'Left Hanging' which intends to portray the people on the other end of the line who have had to experience their conversation being cut of by an accident on the other end due to using the phone.

This is the initial sketch

What I felt at first was the image wasn't clear so I played around with the contrast

and made the black lines look clearer, Then with the pencil tool, i drew additional lines to make the sketch look more complete.

Then I used the paint bucket tool to rapidly colour large areas of the drawing.

And this is how it looked like after colour.

Next I inserted a graphic into the art piece and scaled it to fit the upper half of the art piece.

Then using the blending options, i adjusted the opacity.

Then once again I used the paint bucket tool to connect the colour of the graphic and the background.

After that I cut out the three biggest phone as a layer

Which after that I placed on top of the other layers to make it look like this.

Once I had layered them, I started to apply different blending options such as inner glow and bevel and embossto the three big phones to give them more substance.

And finally I layered the red portion of the art piece and used the filter gallery to give it a different texture.

I used the texture known as 'texturiser' and edited it as i saw fit.

And with that I completed the editing of this art piece and this is the final product.