Ancillary 1: Creating the Main Design

I took many photographs, with and without a flash to capture the most detailed picture that also demonstrated a range of compositions and tones that I could work with. The image I chose shows two hands, one reaching upwards and the other reaching downwards. Inspired by Michelangelo's painting 'The Creation of Adam', and the representation hands portray within metaphorical terms, I posed two hands with a flash light against a plane background so that I could capture the clearest outline to draw from.

I used the drawing program 'Illustrator' to enable me to draw an outline from the drawing. I used the 'curvature' tool where I dragged and shaped a sculpting line around the edge of the drawing. I had to change the settings of this tool so that when I was creating the outline the lines would not infill. I changed the shaping tool to a white colour so that it would stand out against the picture. Using the ability to hide layers, I was able to remove the image of the hands from my drawing to see the development of it. I had never used this program before, so by exploring a new platform I was able to expand on my ability to edit and to apply this to grow my artistic talent.  

Once I finished editing I changed the colour of the outline to black so that when I got rid of the image behind it I was left with my outline drawing. I used the outline thickness '2' throughout the digital outline so that it would create a this even outline throughout the drawing. I chose to create a design like this for the front cover of my digipak because it holds a simplistic beauty that creates a personal touch to the design of the album and an overall athletically pleasing design.