Chaos Worklog *COMPLETE*

The third word; chaos.

To start with, I began looking at chaos in society - how it can effect the economic situation of the world and escalate in to war.

This image is all about what chaos can destroy, and how it does it so easily. With a simple gun-shot the height of man-made technology can be brought to it's knees. Here, the blimp represents man's achievements and how easily they can, literately, be brought down to the ground. It's this split second time between life and death of the aircraft that wanted me to sketch this - a marvel brought down with the itch of a finger. Also, the city below in flames gives the impression of scale - with the debris falling on it, man's creations can also literately fire back. Chaos goes both ways, it seems.

Now rather than concentrating on the cause of destruction, I looked at what the destruction can cause. The answer; being panic and, well, chaos. With the airship close to the viewpoint, about to charge in to the city - it gives an air of impending doom. The fate's inevitable for this city, it's lost.

Bored with the idea of materialistic destruction and it's consequences, I began to look in to the destruction of the human mind - and how it causes chaos from within. Ragged lines in this sketch mirror the subject's mental state - giving the idea of pain and an unsteady mindset. The unsure identity of the drawing also mirror the subject's mental state - as if he is having an identity crisis.

Still working with the idea of the image conveying the character's mindset  - I began to work on how the subject's body, instead of it's art style, in to consideration. I had the idea of using hair and facial expression to to show an unleashed anger. I had the idea to use colour to convey the subject's emotions.

Continuing this overall idea of conveying mental issues - I began to sketch how I could alter the character in photoshop to further convey mental instability.

For my final, the chaos I will be look in to will be an inner battle between one's life and mental state. With both the art style and body giving impact to this idea. The character is purposely ambiguous (with the lack of eyes or defining features) and it's meant to give the impression that any person can become this wreck. The use of colour will be used to convey his inner-struggle.

To begin with I cut out my shot of the man and layered him on a black background. Nothing hugely special yet.

I used the polygon lasso tool to shatter the lower-torso, copying parts and moving parts, and downloaded a paint and splatter brush pack and played about with the brushes for a while until I created a pattern I liked.

After changing the hue and saturation of the paint splatter, I settled on the rainbow gradient as it greatly contrasts against the character.

Break down, every single one of you.