Evaluation

The Wings of Morpheus project is centred around creating two pieces of artwork with Photoshop and Illustrator. You are to choose one of three Steampunk characters and create the artwork based on a description of each character.

I chose to create Henry Drayton. A philanthropist who is trained in martial arts and has a knack for mechanics, as a result he has created a mechanical dog for himself. He is the hero of The Wings of Morpheus project.

I researched this project from various films and video games based on the Steampunk genre, as well as from images I had found online. Such movies and games included, “Wild Wild West”, Van Hellsing, Jak and Daxter, Bioshock: Infinite, Dishonoured.

My strengths within this project lay within Adobe Illustrator. During the course of this project, my skills within Illustrator have greatly improved and as a result, I feel I was able to create a good piece of artwork.

My weaknesses lay within the Photoshop side of the project, it is a programme which I continue to feel unfamiliar with and wish to gain more experience with.

Within the Illustrator side of the project, my character exceeded my own expectations, I even managed to do some extra work in the form of creating Henry Drayton’s robot dog as well as creating an environment which I housed them both in.

I feel I could have improved upon the Photoshop side of the project, I didn’t feel especially comfortable using the programme and would like to practice with it further.

I used both Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator in this project.

When I began this project I was a complete novice when it came to Adobe Illustrator. Now I feel I have become proficient when using this programme.