Costume Designs and Photoshop.

I am planning to finish off and apply my drawings to a generic background using Photoshop. I think that especially over the past academic year I have really come to appreciate how much can be done with this programme. I think that the use of this has become part of my style of working. Over the past year I have really experimented with it and I think this has helped to develop my design skills. I  feel very confident in using the programme and although an extensive use of it for this project will not achieve the style I want, I still think it is an essential tool. I really enjoy using Photoshop and I think it is a good skill to have. I plan to overlay many of the tale's characters garments over the true characters garments using Photoshop, for example the Emperor in the Man of Law's tale over the Knight. I have chosen to do this as I wanted to show how the costumes would actually look overlaid on the original costumes. Where relevant I have changed the characters position and facial expression so that I don't lose the sense of the tale character they are playing and yet still give a sense of their original character. Basically I'm trying to show how the Nun's Priest would represent Theseus (Knight's Tale) etc. To create the painted medieval look for my designs I have used a combination of watercolour, chalk (particularly for the more woollen or textured fabrics), fineliner and colouring pencil. I think this is working well and so far I am pleased with the results.