Thursday 7 April 2011

Single artwork creation process - 2

As a completely different idea from the other, I decided to bring an edit to a real-world image which would draw upon urban roots. By starting off with a London street sign, by patching over the original text using the colour picker and then finding the correct font which matched the original text, I reinvented what was written on the street sign. The only difficult part of making this was adjusting the proportions of the text to make them fit in with the angle of the photography. However, as I feel I am adept in Photoshop, this did not take long to master.
This image includes the single title of "Born in East London", which is a lyric from the song 'Up Against The Wall'. This works both ways - 'Born in East London' is linked to the image by using the postcode E4, which anyone who knows much about London will know that it is the postcode for the general area. After a small amount of research, I narrowed down E postcodes to E4, which I believe is where The Skints' band members were raised. In a more literal sense, this sign is 'Up Against The Wall'. The black bars frame the sign, which focuses the concentration onto the band. The final image is below.

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