(2010 06 20-27) VN 53 Editorial

Multicolored bitmap

One of the many images made for the magazine Vandalism News, http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=93907. The idea was simple enough, one figure in an space, illustrated as a portrait with two hands: Landscape, portrait and detail in order to create space, and then one has to think about the focal point and blur. To give the space articulation, I thought about the scene in the Matrix movie, something sorrunding the portrait. The detail of the hands should be blurry and then the details of the head sharp. I'd preset the background color (due to the restrictions of the multicolor mode) to green and had to work from there...