Week 9: Misfit Toy Draft

Craft
Starting with a blank 11 X 17 sheet in landscape format, I started by cutting out the cow with the magic wand tool and then touching it up with the block eraser. All images were dragged and dropped into Photoshop, then copied and pasted into the compostion. The pig was cut out the same way with the magic wand and block eraser tools. Both had simple backgrounds and sharp resolution. Next was the treadmill. It had a white background and was easy to cut out with the magic wand, including the background in the netting. The cuts of meat were cut out from a black background and resized with the transform-scale tool. The chart was placed underneath all layers, skewed to look tilted, and the white background was pianted silver with the bucket tool. The razor blade was cut out with the magic wand and placed under the treadmill layer. I temporarily placed it on top to use the lasso tool and selected the treadmill layer to cut out the arm so when the razor blade was placed underneath it looked in between the arms of the teadmill. The bottle was cut out with the magic wand and block eraser, placed in the background. The hue was changed to red from the original blue cap. A layer was added on top and painted with the brush tool with red with opacity set to around 50%. Then the two layers were merged and then that new layer was copied. The cow was copied, flipped horizontally, and the value was changed to white. Then with the paint bucket, it was changed to a yellowish beige, then on the same layer, painted with blotches of red with opacity at 70%.

Online Photo Reference List
http://www.annastoydepot.com/animals/cow-family
http://www.annastoydepot.com/animals/pig-and-piglet
http://www.dogtreadmill.ie/2008/10/23/dog-jogger-treadmill/
http://www.askthemeatman.com/hind_qt_cuts.htm
http://www.howto-cooksteak.com/

Concept
The gruesome reality of where our meat comes from is deemed socially unexceptable for young children to be aware of.
Composition
The composition was intended to look like an advertisement in a catalog or end-of-commericial still shot of a laid-out playset. I put the slaughter machine in the center with farm animals on the left and cuts of meat on the right so the eyes read it like a book. Here are some online images used for inspiration:
http://www.sourcingmap.com/gas-truck-tanker-model-fruit-bus-buddys-truck-toy-sets-p-23972.html
http://2ols.com/item_13150_462762954-Kids-Construction-Set-Toys-Construction-Set-span-style-color990000A-Savings-of-18-htm