Task 2

This is the original object that i had to make my line drawing from, it is a decorative kettle, looking at this object , it was all made up of simple lines and curves, i chose these 3 angels to do my line drawing of i felt this way we saw the 3 angles and point of views to create a good idea of the shape of the object. first thing i notised about this kettle is that it was even it had looked like it was hand made which means what ever angle you shot it from there was a slight different in shape, i would not use this object in my final piece but it was great to get some experience in line drawing and breaking an object down to its simple shapes.

This is the kettle once i turned it into a line drawing, basically i used the pen tool in illustrator to go around the original picture so i cud get the basic shape, the hardest part was going around the Handel as it wasn't even, as you can see from each angle of the kettle is different shape, due to the simple shape and texture of it there wasn't much need for any lines to show texture or shape within the object, the only part i struggled with was getting the spout to show when it was facing you, i got around this by drawing a circle and a few lines coming from it, this is a very very simple line drawing done to depict the shape of the kettle not to show in full detail the definition has been ignored in these images.

This is my kettle once it had been coloured in, just by puttin simples colour in the line drawing it has already created a more real look to it, it has gone from being boring lines to an actual cartoon, i did this by taking my lines and uploading them into photoshop, then creating another layer and colouring over the kettle image with the different colours then highlighting the white area around the line objects going onto the painted area and erasing the white area so the colours were only inside of the lines, this was a simple technique but i feel it worked really well in capturing the colour and the texture of the kettle and the tone stands out really well around the spout.

This activity i found very interesting, it helped me to depict simple shapes from objects and make them into a cartoon, i feel using this technique i can capture the shapes i need to create my game plan and game design, i feel i learnt a new technique and also i increased my skill with the pen tool.