As we know, technology affects human in many ways such as in the area of communication, health, economy, environment, transportation and so on. Through my research, I have found mainly on the issues of technology affecting the environment. In this modern world of technology and rising globalization, energy consumption in our planet has also increased. This caused many detrimental effects on our world climate and air quality. However, with the modern technology being invented, it helps to improve energy management systems and also helps to develop environmental friendly products such as bio-fuels. Also, on the other hand, we know that there is a link between the way energy is being produced and the damage caused by pollution. Hence, the positive effect which technology bring to the environment would also affect human negatively. All in all, both technology and environment work hand in hand to give human a better future, but to maintain the future of our planet, cleaner and alternative ways to manage new technology has to be taken into account.
The term here is 'environmental technology', where different electronic devices are used to promote sustainable resources management.
Sketch
Design Process
Step 1 :
The sketch above was scanned and opened in photoshop. Then, the image was cropped and resized according to standard A2 size. For this landscape sketch, it was 594mm width X 420mm height with resolution of 300 pixels.
Step 2 :
I started off by creating another layer - tree trunk. Then, using the quick selection tool, I selected specific area for the tree trunk and filled it with black color.
tree trunk layer |
selected area of tree trunk |
black filled |
Step 3:
After changing the foreground to brown-ish color, I selected the tree trunk's area once more, pressed Filter > Render > Filters to create an effect. Variance was 17 and Strength was 3. This was all done on the tree trunk layer and blending mode was multiply.
After the effect was added |
Step 4:
I filled up the blank spaces on the tree trunk using a slightly different tone of brown and created a new layer as 'leaves' and started coloring it.
Coloring the leaves |
Step 5:
After coloring all the leaves on different layers and using different tones, i added in some effects such as drop shadow and inner shadow.the tree with added effects |
Step 6:
Next, I started coloring the robot by creating different layers and using gradient tool to create the shade. Then, i added in extra effects such as stroke, drop shadow and inner shadow on different layers of the robot.
Step 7:
I filled up the blank spaces on the robot's chest by creating a text layer using horizontal type tool and wrote "HELLO". Then, it was converted to smart object so that I am able to adjust the skew-ness of the words.
right clicked on the 'Hello' layer and pressed 'Covert to Smart Object' |
The finalized coloring of both the tree and the robot |
Next, to fill up the background, I created another layer call "cloud" and filled it with blue gradient tool. Then, on the same layer, I used a white color brush with lower capacity to create the clouds effect.
Step 9:
Another layer 'land color' was created and filled with both green and blue color using gradient tool. Again, the cloud effects were created the same way.
Step 10:
After filling up all the gaps in the artwork, noise was added on the 'cloud' and 'land color' layer. (Filter > Noise > Add noise > 35% > Uniform)
art work with added noise |
Step 11:
After that, I duplicated the layer of the clouds and the land, and on the duplicated layers, I added extra effect (Color overlay of red-ish color)
Step 12:
Lastly, to blend the cloud and land properly, the background copied layers were applied with Gaussian Blur (Radius = 60 Pixels). Then, all the layers were set as multiply to enhance the effect of gaussian blur. Final touch up were applied and the finalized design is shown below.
Final Artwork
Artist Statement
The idea of this artwork is to portray that environmental technology is something positive and negative to the environment. The tree is being portray as the 'environment' while the robot as 'technology'. Here, it can be seen that both parties which are 'shaking hands' show that both technology and environment work together positively to create a better life for human. However, notice the added red-ish color/noise effect for the background? I used that to represent environmental technology may also cause other detrimental effects such as pollution. All in all, this artwork is to portray the distinct features of how both separate entity can work together so well for human life,however, if precautions are not being taken, it will have negative effects as well.
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Reference
http://www.itchybrainscentral.com/example-essays/ecology-impact-technology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_technology