Rotten Apples

One of the challenges of this particular project is adding all the little details, it's because these little details will be what pulls the whole picture together even though most people will never notice them.

One of those details is the apples especially the apple that Antigone holds. In the play Antigone is denied rotten apples by the farmer that owns the tree because if he feeds her then he will have to feed every beggar that comes his way. It's a fairly poignant part of the play hence why I chose to use it for the poster. So Antigone really needs to be holding a rotten apple and I felt that to really illustrate the point it needed to be crawling with wasps and flies. One of those knock you on the head type symbols.

I found this picture of an apple with a wasp crawling inside it and a fly which is perfect so all I needed to do was add them to Antigone's apple.














First I adjusted colour to closely match the apple in my picture and then I had to re size it as the image was far larger than that in the poster.

Once it was re sized I realised that the fly was going to end up under Antigone's finger so I put it onto a layer of it's own so that I could position it separately from the wasp. Then using a soft brush I slowly masked out the rest of the picture just leaving the wasp and the hole being very careful not to lose any detail around the edge of the hole. Then I did the same for the fly carefully burning and dodging around the flies legs.



It was actually quite a simple mask but I think it has been very effective and hey presto I have a wasp crawling inside Antigone's apple.