My approach to this was really just experimenting with different techniques. For most of them, I didn't have a plan going in (with the exception of the pixel painting, Jaakko Kahilaniemi-inspired, and David Hockney-inspired ones since those require more planning to execute). I tried to use mostly rejected photos from DC#3. Overall, I'm really happy with how some of these turned out!
My selected top three:
Making them:
pixel painting:
For this one, I chose a palette from the Adobe Color site. It was one of the popular ones, and I really liked the colors since they reminded me of the sunset. I set it up originally like the pixel selfie, but I saved it and went back to change something, I could make the lines smaller. This happy accident led me to redrawing parts of it and making it a little less klunky. Red car is a nod to one of my illustrations in DC#1. I mentioned wanting to tie all my challenges together in my post about just DC#3. I added a graffiti smiley face to the exit sign looking billboard and a ufo because I could. I'm the god of my own projects. I didn't like how the text looked on it, and a couple other people I had look at it didn't either, so I just removed that.
I started with a rejected image from one of the pictures I took for this challenge. I then worked on color shifting it until I got one I liked. The image then went to photoshop where I played around with it to get it to match my color palette for this. I then took a pixel shifted image of one of my final and made a clipping mask with it. I altered the hues to get a cool purple/turquoise effect. This was the last one I made and the one that surprised me the most since it was all 100% just me going like well maybe this could work.
I don't know why I love this as much as I do but I do. I originally took an image from one of the rejected that I loved the lighting in. I then went and pixel shifted it. From there I did another glitch but with color shifting. After doing a few different ones I got this one. I then took it to photoshop and played with hues and saturation until I got colors I wanted. I found a cool glitchy type face on dafont and I think it really completed it. It was between the font chosen (Glass Houses) and Nervous. When I asked for feedback I was told that the Nervous one is too busy or hard to read. I chose this as my final. I don't know if it's the "best" but it's my favorite.
The other five: (I did end up using the photo in the second one in the final but just not on the cover).
For the most part, I stuck to purples/pinks/blues because to me those just scream suburb. They aren't harsh or bold. They are the colors in the sky when people head home from work or school, and it just seemed fitting. It was with these though that I decided the palette for the photos and what I kept in mind while editing those.
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