Which one's which? (post#12)

So here's my image

It's more London looking because I now got that Routemaster bus, which is one of the real trademarks of London.

Inorder to determine which of these images are going to be a drawing, a photograph or grayscale, what I did was, I've printed each of these images thrice. (Please look through my sketchbook to see what I've done)

The visual style of each image varies between each print-outs. For example:

On the first print-out, the image of the London Phone Booth is in coloured



On the second one, the image is in grayscale

For the third one, I've printed a drawing version of the image.

To be honest, I'm not really going to use the grayscale image of the phone booth because for things like the London buses, phone booth & underground sign, they are all either gonna come as a photograph or drawing as I want to keep their redness.

I've also printed a grayscale version of the whole illustration as my guide.

Once printed, I've cut these images out and laid them all on the table. This way made it easier for me to fiddle with images and decide which combination of visual style goes well with each other.

Since at the moment, I still haven't made up my mind on whose image I'm going to use, I've just brought back the photograph of the theatrical woman.

Just incase you're wondering why the ensign flag had disappear, this is because I've already decided that it is going to be set in Overlay sort of effect. And I think, if it is going to be set in this effect, I would prefer it coloured.

If I am being honest, looking at the image above, I actually quite like what the cut-out effect is doing to my illustration. However, I do not think this would be ideal because if I scanned this in, all images will going to come as a single image.In other words if I want to do some adjustments on a particular image, i.e. London Bus, this wouldn't be easy without affecting the rest of the images in the illustration.

I think I will gonna settle with the one below. In this illustration, St.Paul's Cathedral and Swiss Re building appears in great detail, which to me is interesting, and the redness of the London bus, phone booth, underground sign is maintained. I've got no worries when it comes to making it contemporary because I'm going to change its saturation later anyway.