backgrounds and retro gaming (main theme)

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Backgrounds All of the backgrounds I have made have been done by using scanned pieces of magazines and books (inspired by Kerstin Stephan’s work) and combining these with images from the internet. They have been combined together to form backgrounds that are surreal and unrealistic (as is Eugenia Loli’s collages) There is a dominant theme of 8 bit gaming in the backgrounds as that is part of the personal side of these backgrounds. It is a big interest to me and also what I have grown up with. The games include Grand Theft Auto I, Street Fighter, Mario, Megaman, Doom and The Big Pro Wrestling which are all games I played in my childhood. I have also added scanned images that I cut out of National Geographic journals and added these to two of the backgrounds. National Geographic is something I enjoy to read so I used it to make the backgrounds more personal. Also in there is an 8 bit Godzilla, this is because of my love of the franchise and all of the films.

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Backgrounds

All of the backgrounds I have made have been done by using scanned pieces of magazines and books (inspired by Kerstin Stephan’s work) and

combining these with images from the internet. They have been combined together to form backgrounds that are surreal and unrealistic (as is

Eugenia Loli’s collages)

There is a dominant theme of 8 bit gaming in the backgrounds as that is part of the personal side of these backgrounds. It is a big interest to me

and also what I have grown up with. The games include Grand Theft Auto I, Street Fighter, Mario, Megaman, Doom and The Big Pro Wrestling which are all games I played in my childhood. I have also added scanned images that I cut out of National Geographic journals and added these to two of the backgrounds. National Geographic is something I enjoy to read so I

used it to make the backgrounds more personal. Also in there is an 8 bit Godzilla, this is because of my love of the franchise and all of the films.

Background 1

Background 2

Background 3

Background 4

How the layers were added

Magnetic Lasoo Tool

Move Tool

Layer Style/Pattern Overlay180% Scale

Final Image

Self portraits All of the images : 1/30 secs f/5.0 ISO: 800

Finished Background 1

Finished Background 2

I didn’t choose these 3 images because although I like the compositions, I don’t think they are good enough or that they represent my theme enough to be considered to be chosen.

Finished Background 3

This is the image I would have chosen if I did not choose the 4th image because I spent quite a lot of time getting everything together and including myself into it.

Finished Background 4

I have chosen to use this final image because I believe it is the most complex and involves me the most. The complexity and busyness of the image represents the main theme of my work, retro gaming.