Conceptualization For a Series vs. a Single Image
Lesson 15 from: Creating a Fine Art SeriesBrooke Shaden
Conceptualization For a Series vs. a Single Image
Lesson 15 from: Creating a Fine Art SeriesBrooke Shaden
Lesson Info
15. Conceptualization For a Series vs. a Single Image
Lessons
Class Introduction
07:25 2Overview of Brooke’s Journey
20:13 3Your Timeline is Nonlinear
05:37 4Using Curiosity and Intention to Build Your Career
03:26 5What Factors Dictate Growth
08:24 6Organic Growth vs. Forced Growth
05:18 7Niche Branding
04:57 8Brooke’s Artistic Evolution and Timeline
24:27How Can You Get Ahead if You Feel Behind?
10:02 10Ideation and Conceptualization to Identify Meaning in Your Art
05:54 11Idea Fluency
10:33 12How to Represent an Idea
07:01 13How to Innovate an Idea
07:07 14Creating a Dialogue With Your Art
05:48 15Conceptualization For a Series vs. a Single Image
03:43 16Transforming a Single Image Into a Series
03:12 17How to Tell a Story in a Series
03:28 18How to Create Costumes From Fabric
07:20 19Brooke’s Most Useful Costumes
02:19 20Using Paint and Clay as Texture in an Image
02:56 21Create Physical Elements in an Image
10:22 22Shooting for a Fine Art Series
05:45 23Conceptualization: Flowery Fish Bowl in the Desert
04:08 24Wardrobe and Texture
04:54 25Posing for the Story
05:32 26Choosing an Image
01:23 27Conceptualization: Rainy Plexiglass
11:34 28Posing for the Story
04:17 29Creating Backlight
02:37 30Photo Shoot #1 - Creating a Simple Composite
17:51 31Photo Shoot #2 - Creating a Dynamic Composite
06:31 32Photo Shoot #3 - Creating a Storytelling Composite
07:40 33Shooting the Background Images
06:14 34Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Working With Backgrounds
24:35 35Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Retouching the Subject
04:20 36Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Color Grading
02:45 37Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Floor Replacement Texture
15:24 38Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Final Adjustments
03:21 39Editing Samsara Shoot #2 - Cropping and Editing Backgrounds
05:25 40Editing Samsara Shoot #2 - Selective Adjustments
03:55 41Editing Samsara Shoot #2 - Adding Texture + Fine Tuning
03:21 42Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Compositing Models
06:58 43Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Expanding Rooms
02:17 44Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Selective Color
02:47 45Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Selective Exposure
04:04 46Editing Composite Shoot #2- Masking Into Backgrounds
10:45 47Editing Composite Shoot #2- Creating Rooms in Photoshop
06:11 48Editing Composite Shoot #2- Compositing Hair
05:07 49Editing Composite Shoot #2- Global Adjustments
04:49 50Editing Composite Shoot #3- Blending Composite Elements
05:00 51Editing Composite Shoot #3- Advanced Compositing
08:46 52Editing Composite Shoot #3- Cleanup
03:34 53Materials for Alternative Processes
06:20 54Oil Painting on Prints
05:41 55Encaustic Wax on Prints
03:09 56Failure vs. Sell Out
05:14 57Create Art You Love and Bring an Audience To You
03:35 58Branding Yourself Into a Story
05:40 59The Artistic Narrative
05:26 60Get People to Care About Your Story
03:36 61Get People to Buy Your Story
11:36 62Getting Galleries and Publishers to Take Notice
03:41 63Pricing For Commissions
06:43 64Original Prints vs. Limited Edition Prints vs. Open Edition Prints
02:11 65Class Outro
01:00 66Live Premiere
16:14 67Live Premiere: Layers of Depth 1
04:41 68Live Premiere: Layers of Depth 2
07:12 69Live Premiere: Q&A
16:10 70Live Premiere: Photo Critique
47:33Lesson Info
Conceptualization For a Series vs. a Single Image
How do we conceptualize a Siri's versus a single image? There's a difference. There has to be a difference when you focus on a single image, then you really focus on theme and visual theme is the idea of the image, and visuals are the visuals of the image. So you have an idea, and you represent that visually. And then that tends to be how we work with a single image idea. Visual done. A Siri's, though, requires you to focus on theme and visual. Of course, yes, but then toe add a through line. What is going to be the story that takes place through all of the images in the Siri's? You have an idea. You have a visual now. How do you stretch that across multiple images? Theme is just the overarching idea behind an image. So it's really just I have an idea. This is it, blah. Whatever you want to say. One word. Two words a sentence. That's your theme visual, You know, photographic elements. How do they come together to tell the story of that theme? But then the through line is making sure th...
at each image builds depth and diversity into the story while knitting together clues that point to a theme. So when you're talking about through line, you're saying, Okay, I've got this really cool image. Maybe, like I'm just thinking of one of mine. Maybe it's me standing in a field covered in butterflies. The theme is transformation. The visual is butterflies all over me. But then how do I extend that through a whole entire Siri's? Well, maybe I come up with ideas like, Okay, I'm going to have I'm gonna be covered in fewer and fewer butterflies until they're all flown away. Maybe that's one wayto represent a through line of a story of transformation. So think about the through line is a really important tool here. When it comes to a Siri's. This Siri's that I'm showing you is begin again. My most recently finished Siri's, and this is all about identity. So this whole Siri's there's a single theme. The theme is identity, and they're all visually represented. Pretty similar. They all take place in a field. They're all foggy. They all have this yellow tone over them, and they're all self portrait with this antique dress. Now the props differ, and that's how the through line continues through this story. You have this theme of identity represented visually in all those ways that I just mentioned. But the through line is examining how we deal with the theme of identity in our lives, by wearing a mask by looking in the mirror and by wearing a veil. And that's why you see all of these images here. So theme is identity. The visual is monochromatic, antique, foggy, but the through line is different ways of hiding ourselves from ourselves behind a mask in a mirror and behind a veil. This is the Siri's fourth wall, which I already showed you, and there's a lot of consistency within this Siri's. It all takes place in this one room with no windows or doors. There's a single subject in the center of the frame, and then all these different elements that I brought in. So the theme of Fourth Wall is secrets, things that you feel you can't tell anybody else, but that your thinking in your mind, something about you that makes you feel trapped. The visual is that they all take place in a square room shot from above. There are all trapped, all the subjects air trapped in some way, and I use abstract materials in every room the through line, then combining the theme and visual across all of them is that there are different representations of the things that we don't tell others, so there's always always a through line.
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Ratings and Reviews
a Creativelive Student
Brooke never fails to deliver. I found this course superb from start to finish. From exercising your creative 'muscle', demystifying taking self portraits, and showing that they don't have to be perfect before you begin editing, to walking you through her editing process and how to price your work. Brooke's enthusiastic personality and excitement about the work shines through it all. Definitely recommended!
Rebecca Potter
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Brooke for this amazing class. Inspired and so full of practical knowledge, this is the best class I've ever watched. You have given me the confidence to pursue what I've always been afraid to do. Watch this space!
Søren Nielsen
Thank for fantastic motivating an very inspiring. The story telling and selling module was very helpful - thanks from Denmark