Project 4

Faux Renaissance

Images

A knight’s tale - we travel back in time, using grunge textures to create a pseudo renaissance masterpiece

In this project we take a slight detour and create an image that has more creative license. The subject is a bit more exotic and we are going to apply a faux-renaissance treatment to achieve the final outcome – a distinctly vintage feel. This marks a departure from our focus on photorealism, where the emphasis has been on convincing representations of reality.

We shall combine many of the skills we have covered in previous projects to achieve this effect. in particular, we introduce a technique of using layered ...

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