In this week's lecture, we were asked to perform constructive criticism on any design or a piece of artwork. Constructive criticism is aimed at evaluating a piece or artwork or design, in this case I have selecting a piece or artwork, basically giving my two cents worth of opinion and advice, targeted at aiding the artist to improve his/her artwork.
Below is what I have retrieved from the web.
Basically what you can see in the picture is three elephants, supposedly from another photo, being superimposed onto another photo of a still seawater.
The color tone used in this image is rather dull, comprising of largely blue to gray tones, yet soothing to the eyes. This color selection might be a good way to portray the tranquility and consistency of the image as implied by the use of calm waters and elephants, which are known to be gentle giants.
The elephants are somewhat positioned around the center of the image, thus granting importance and focus on them. On top of that, the elephants are of different sizes and placed strategically to give depth to the entire picture, so that it does not turn out to be too two dimensional of poorly composited.
The greatest issue I have with this picture is the poor use of CG tools like photoshop or illustrator as could be seen around the area where the elephants' legs are submerged in the water. The artist could probably add more ripples and blending around the legs of the elephants so that it does not look like it was just cropped and pasted on the water. Moreover, the water seemed too deep for the elephants to literally walk as if they we walking on the sea bed. This could either be solved by using an image of the seawater near the shore with the elephants just entering the water or for a more abstract connotation, the elephants can be portrayed as if they were walking on the surface of the water itself.
Overall it was a nice idea but I think it requires more work, depth and profound usage of CG tools in creating the image.
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