I began by choosing a selection of images related to my subject and arranging them on a page appealingly.
I then used a light box and began inking different areas of tone and colour so that there was a variety of overlaps, blank spots and single colour areas.
This layer is the more loose of the three, it is mainly there to provide a mixture of colours and add a bit more depth.
In this layer I have tried to show the actual brush work so the you can see a bit of texture and be able to tell this piece has been hand drawn.
On the final layer I thought I should include a lot of very fine detail because a lot of the photos I had chosen were very detailed and I thought it would make the end result all the more interesting.
I then scanned my inked sheets and used the threshold tool in photoshop to make them into layers of block colour. With this being a CMYK related exercise it was only right to use Cyan, Magenta and Yellow.
This is how it turned out, I am really pleased with the balance of colour I have achieved. This was done by using darken as the blend mode for all three layers, which means that where each layer overlaps with another a new colour is made and where all three overlap it makes black.
I then thought I'd have a play around and used shift backspace along with the colour dropper to select new colours to replace one of the old ones and see how this changed things.
This was one of my favourite combinations aside to the original. I think some of the panels are greatly improved by using this colour way such as the car engine and the oil can which look far more defined. However panels like the spanner racking and the man welding looked a lot better in full colour. If I was to use this in any part of my piece I would probably have a mixture of colour ways for whatever suited each panel best.
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