After finishing the outline of a Brazilian international footballer with 'Rio 2016' written underneath him, however at this stage I thought I should add more to it so that it wasn't bland and boring.
I chose to transform an original oval shape using the twist tool in illustrator which gave the effect of a wave type shape, I chose to have a gradient as the colour of the shape to incorporate all three of the Brazilian flags colours into it, this relates to the brief as it will be advertising the Rio Olympics by having the colours of brazil in my stamp and also a modern footballer who plays in the Olympic team. At this stage, I started to think that the writing at the bottom looked too big and covered up quite a lot of the page, so I chose to get rid of the writing and place it on again at a later stage.
Once I had removed the text from the bottom of my screen I didn't really like the way that it was looking, so I decided to change the way my background was, but keeping the same colour, I changed it so it gives the effect of it swirling around the football player. I began to think that the focal point of my stamp(the football player) wasn't large enough and didn't fill much of the image.
I made it larger but then had a problem, because I had grouped everything together and I used lots and lots of brush strokes instead of using as little as possible when I enlarged the whole image it turned out patchy and I and I had to paint over on a new layer to overcome this problem, however before I decided to I thought it would be better to finish off the rest of the stamp, I chose to make a small banner type shape underneath the player smaller than the original text was going to be.
I had the shape and put a slight curve onto it to try and make it fit into the swirl of the background which I thought looked okay but could definitely be improved so I changed it to make it look more unique and look better.
After I used the Pucker and Bloat tool, I then had this shape which I thought was much better than the plain rectangle which I had before. But I then saw that it didn't really fit in with the swirl that I had on the last shape I made. I thought this was a slight issue as if it didn't fit in it would maybe draw attention away from the focal point of the footballer.
I used the twist tool and then ended up with my shape looking like this which I thought looked nice and didn't stand out and I was happy with how my image was looking. I then needed to paint over the footballers face and the Rio 2016 Olympic logo which I had chosen to put in the background as it would help recognise that the stamps are for the 2016 Olympics.
After I had coloured filled in the spaces created by enlarging the original image I thought I would try and add a lens flare by using the technique we had practiced in lesson a few weeks ago. I thought this would be okay as it would draw more attention to the focal point due to it giving the effect of a light beaming.
I put the lens flare behind my footballer as I thought that it would draw attention to him as it looks like a light beaming onto him. I also think that it looks a bit like the sun and this is good as there is a lot of sun in brazil so it relates to the brief of creating four stamps to advertise the 2016 Olympics in Brazil.
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