In my opinion starting off with whom I call the “Cigarette Man”, I am happy with a first attempt of what I had created on photoshop. I decided to create an image like this as reference to Mandy barker and thought I would use Cigarette buds as a way of showing this, it links with the context of smoking and is eye-catching in the first place, because who would even do this? The idea behind it is to show people what can even be physically made out of cigarette buds which you would find everywhere, but there is no care for them as they are only a small piece of plastic which does add up. In this image there is a lot of repetition of the buds, but with a variety of different shapes and colours to form something visible, which is what I attempted to do in order to create tone for the 2D image. And I couldn’t leave the right hand side empty so I decided to link it with a huge chimney which is used to let go of excess fumes from burning plastics.

which was inspired by this image, and used as a reference, Its repetition of lines at the top, also on top of one big line. I also tried editing this image to a more older look to view the contrast of the image in order to create some tone of reference when creating it with the cigarette buds.

I created a virtual art gallery of the images I composed:

In the first screenshot there are 4 compositions I made. They include my final piece and a chimney edited in a way where it looked more eye catching or relatable to the subject. In the second screenshot, I included the 6 types of cigarette buds I had used to create the “cigarette man” as I like to call it. and even a nice suburban image which I had used because of the aesthetic of it.

In the third image it includes a mix of suburban and landscape images. In one of the images I used the kaleidoscope effect which in my opinion produced a funky acid looking image. While the others create in my opinion an Italian affect.

In the last Screenshot it includes a nice landscape image of St.Ounes, which I like a lot because the day at the time was perfect for creating images, and even the image itself looks very nice.