As I'd eventually worked on my final piece for the project, the face was something that I was settled upon looking how I wanted it to - however, I had to work on the background and start intertwining the ideas I'd initially drawn out from the beginning. I tried using basic shapes on Photoshop and editing them to give a 3d feel, but didn't feel this was enough to depict what I'd drawn out.I then decided to do some artist research to gain some inspiration for the background and to start planning out what I wanted them to look like. Through research and Pinterest, I found Mike Winkelmann, a digital artist from America whose speciality is using Cinema 4D.
His work is really what I wanted to capture in my own, the colour schemes, abstract yet "computer-rendered" feel, and the use of circles, triangles, angles etc to give life to his piece. Particularly the middle work and the portraits are my main sources of inspiration. They're exactly what I was looking to depict in my own work, a mix of real life and cyber.
Although I can't create them exactly using photoshop, they're my main source of inspiration for the background, to depict the online reality of the world crashing with my own face to the right, and the use of colour is also what I wanted to take from his work too. Visually they're beautiful pieces and his use of shadow, lighting and colour make beautiful work.
