Creating Backgrounds

To accompany my film I wanted to create some backgrounds showing where the children were when they used scrap and what their imaginations might look like. I started with the easiest option which was the starry sky where they are transported when flying. I looked at some images of stars and one caught my eye, Van Gogh's Starry night. This gave me an idea to theme all of my backgrounds on different styles of art or artists. I found some images of Starry Night and printed them off to use as inspiration for my drawings. I sketched some images in my sketchbook and then photocopied them so I could do different things with each one without having to draw it out again. I used paints to recreate the colours in the sky and inverted the colours to get a really nice effect. I then scanned these in to manipulate digitally in Photoshop. The first image is the un-edited version and the second two are examples of my image with filters applied through Photoshop. The second uses the filter 'dry brush' which was effective but I felt the other stood out in which I used the filter 'coloured pencil' and adjusted the contrast to make the colours stand out.