Here are images from the Rankin Destroy project that I will use to inspire my own work on this project. I will use similar techniques like drawing over the image to transform the image. There are varies different styles used here from paint splatters to cutting the image apart and rearranging it. I will try and replicate these images by using similar techniques. All of these images have an original image that is to very high standard making the destroy part of the image look even better.
Mind Map
What I'm going to do next
I will now take these ideas that I have came up with and take photos using these ideas. This should help with my collection of work from this project.
Experiments, Ideas & Observations
Initial Response -Felt tip pens
Here is my first response where I took photos of someone doing different posing and trying to recreating the styling of Rankin. tO destroy these images I used felt tip pens and I used these in different ways from outlining the person in the image to drawing symbols on the photo.
These are the images that I first took to use in this project to use in the style of Rankin. Here I have used different poses to try and make the initial images of a good standard. They aren't of the best standard but are a starting point and I can always develop and improve the image.
Final Image
Reflection
In reflection, this set of work hadn't really worked very well as they work looks more childish that professional like Rankin's. I can now reflect and see that this work didn't work and move onto another topic to base more response on.
Experimenting in Photoshop
Here I used photoshop to destroy my images. I did this via many editing techniques such as, adding a vignette, masking the image, turning the image black and white, adding a texture and finally fitting the image into a Polaroid frame.
What was good? I believe that it was a good attempt and it created some interesting looking images. I enjoyed this response more than the first as I prefer to doing my editing in photoshop instead of by hand as I believe you can do more creative and weird things in photoshop that you can't do with felt tips.
What could have been better? Even though I believed this to be a good effort, I don't think that it is the best that I can do as Rankin's images are not destroyed in photoshop but are destroyed by hand instead and to show my inspiration from him, I need to create some images that have been destroyed by hand like Rankin.
Second Response - Chopping
Here is my second response where I took a few images, chopped them up and then places them together making an images that contains two photos. I liked this images as it looks different and the two different poses that are put together work really well. I then turned the image black and white as I didn't like the colour of the image and like to use black and white whenever I can.
Although I think that this is a really good looking image and like the style of it, I still believe that I can use an image that can show exactly what Rankin photograph I got inspiration from.
Here are the images that I destroyed myself and I used varies techniques to go for similar photos that Rankin used to show that I gained inspiration from his work. In my first image, I decided to cut strips out of the image and then line these strips on another image. This is to make the first look distorted like the Justin Bieber photo from Rankin. The other images I did, I decided to go for the technique that Rankin used to destroy his images by drawing on them. Four of my images that I used this technique on where in the theme of religion and royalty. I did this as I thought this could be a theme where I can make the model in the image look different in many ways. I also used these as a theme as I thought that these like together quite well as a lot of royal families are quite religious. In the image where I turned the model into an angel, I edited the image in serval ways in photoshop. I turned the image black and white but masked the yellow peace chain and halo to make it stand out. I then added soft patches of white into the background of the image to make it look more white and angel like. In my final image, I decided to do something different whilst still doing the drawing technique. I decided to outline the model in the image but with many different colours. I feel that this makes the image look different but interesting. I don't believe that these images has worked very well and the similarities just aren't good enough.
Developed Ideas
In this gallery here I show the progression I did when editing these set of images. First I started out with the standard photos. I then turned all the images black and white and with some of the images I added a vignette or blur to make the image look more interest. I then added a texture to each image. This is liking back to one of Rankin's images where there is a blue image that looks like it has some sort of odd blue texture on it. I then decided to add each one to a polaroid frame to make it look more professional. These images are really good images to start with and will allow me to create really good destroy images.
With this image I combine the two techniques that Rankin used; the use of textures and the ripping of the images. I used these here as I used my images that I used textures on and then ripped them up and place them in a order similar to Rankin. I have combined three of the images above by ripping them up and placing them in an order to create a interesting looking image.
This was a good image I combined three different images and I have already photoshopped and destroyed. I combined destroyed these images by ripping them up and placing them in a formation which worked well together.
This would of worked better if I would of made more images like this so that I could make this a collection. Also if I would have made more images that I have tried to destroyed in photoshop and blended them together.
This is another example of me trying to replicate Rankin's work. To make this image, I very easily brightened the image to make it look similar to the image that this image is based on. I then used the lines tool to make a similar effect as the one in the Rankin image. I think that it has worked well and think the image looks very similar to the Rankin image and therefore is a successful attempt. This is a photoshop representation of what the image will look like when I destroy it. For a by hand destroy, for the lines I will simply use a pencil and ruler. This destroy is very simple but can look very unique.
Development
Here I am showing the development of one of my responses and how I created the set of images that I will use.
With this image I have used the development from above and turned them black and white. I masked out the paint so that the colour of the paint is still visible. I then changed the hue of the paint in different places to make it look more colourful.
Final Presentation
Final Response
This is my final presentation. I had used the Rankin image of Kylie Monogue and put my own effect onto the image. I tried to replicate the image by having a model wear headphones and putting paint onto them image in a random pattern. I then decided to play with the colours of the image and add a pinkish layer to the image. I then finished the image off by adding a layer of radial blur and masking out the middle strip of the image. This has made a really good collection and links best back to Rankin.