I have began my final piece. I am combining Takahiro Kimura, Gillian Lambert and David Hockney. The previous photo's uploaded (first set) are the photo's i will use to help complete my final creation. I think the link is obvious between my work and Kimura's work, and perhaps David Hockney's. Gillian Lambert is less obvious. My copy of Gillian Lamberts' work  was created using pencil, as she uses to create hers. I believe, and have been told, that pencil is my strongest form, so i intend on using this advantage to the fullest. I will use pencil to draw most of my final piece, oil pastels to create parts of the coloured sections, and used photography to create a mixed media piece. I will add a photo of what it currently looks like soon.

New photo's to work from

I took some new photo's to work from which i will use for my final piece. I took two separate lots of photo's, but i'm not sure if i should combine both together.


This is the first lot of photo's i took. They're in portrait style and my face is the main focus in all of the photos.
These are just a few of the photo's to show the editing process.

This is in the illusion style. I like how it has chosen a few sections of the face to layer on top of the photo. This will be good when cutting up to create the collage style.

This is a colour style photo. I like the colours used in the effect and i think it will look good incorporated into the whole collage.

This is another illusion effect photo, and i like how there are multiple eyes that i can cut and stick next to other photos which have other expressions.

This is my least favourite. Although i believe the colour compliments the emotion, i don't think it would look flattering in the collage.

The next photo's are my favourite, however i don't know if they will fit into a collage as well as the photo's above would; the photo's above show the face in the size that will be best to create a collage.

Again, this is the illusion style. I like how the eyes and lips are continued in the layer and i could use parts of this photo to contrast other expressions in the collage.

This expression is neutral. I felt that using an illusion effect would amplify photo because the expression doesn't show much at all.

I believe that the colour shows the emotion clearer and i like the pastel colours in the eyes and face. 

This photo doesn't seem edited but i've brightened it and you can see pinks, blues and purples. I think this compliments the expression shown and matches the colours used in other photo's; this will make the collage easier to blend.

I will cut these photos into segments and experiment with positioning and then create a collage. I will then create an A3/2 collage using a mixture of medias such as oil pastels, pencil and the original edited photo's. I need to make sure i don't pick a size too big to copy from as i don't want the collage to be disproportional; i want it to be as realistic as possible.

Edits in the style of Takahiro Kimura

These are a few edits that i created on 'Gimp'. I did them in the style of the artist i am most interested in which is Kimura.

I used an illusion style and a coloured style to create some of the effects used in Kimura's work. 

This photo is edited using the illusion style. I like this effect because it makes the photo layered and creates multiple copies of some aspects of the face.

This photo is created using the colour effect. I like this because you can change the colours depending on the expression and the emotion portrayed in the photo.

This is the second style available in the illusion effect. I particularly like how it distorts some of the facial features and layers them on top but you can still see the original picture intact. 

Again, this is the colour effect. I don't really like the colours in this photo, however i like how the eyes have a glazed effect.

I will use these photo's to create a piece in the style of Takahiro Kimura, and then i will copy from the piece using crayons to create the block colour effect, and pencil because i believe pencil is one of my strongest points.