Pushkin Press:The Allure of Chanel Brief

Pushkin Press- The Allure of Chanel Brief OUIL503 Responsive – My response to this brief aimed to capture Coco Chanels complicated personality; her intensity, unpredictability and seductive nature. She self taught herself through reading so I wanted to include an open book in the piece. I chose to combine analogue and digital as I used the first sketches with watercolour to create composition with brush strokes and then add colour and detail through Photoshop. I also decided to add the Chanel logo using photoshop as it took me a while to decide what colour to use for it; I chose yellow/gold as this colour was also used for colouring around the cigarette and I wanted to add a colour that resembled class and quality; gold.