Ancillary 1: Creating Back Cover Design

I took a multitude of photographs so that I could get the clearest one to draw an outline around. The one I chose to use was taken with a flash, this enabled me to capture a clear focus around the finger print. I used red face make-up paint to coat my finger so that I could leave a clear fingerprint mark on a piece of paper, it took many tries to get the perfect finger print because the paint was either too wet or too dry which effect the clarity of the finger print.

Using the editing platform 'Illustrator', I imported the image and used the 'curvature' tool to follow the outlines of the fingerprint. Originally I traced around the outside of the finger print so that when the entire drawing was finished I had a drawing replica of the entire finger print. Inside I decided to just trace the lines across the finger, this way there would be no definite line for where the lines finish, but where I stopped tracing in itself created an edge for my drawing. I outlined in red so that I could see the lines I was drawing easier, later I will convert them to white as I will be overlaying this image on top of a black background.

This is what the final imaged ended up looking like. I will overlay this on top of another black background so that I can enlarge it and tilt it slightly so that this design can fit along the the aesthetic of my album. I really like how there is no edge to this drawing; where the lines stop creates an indirect outline of the finger print. Some of the lines and details of this finger print is missing, this creates a drawing with more depth and texture to it, where as a finished drawing would have looked flat.