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Escher's Art Analysis

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Continuing with my self promotion pieces to get PalbergWERX Design + Photography noticed in this over stimulated communications age, I began work on my second famous artistic image in history. You can read Part 1 in this series HERE.
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This time I choose M.C. Escher's work 'Humanity'. Again, there have been numerous imitations and this ribbon type illustration is well known to the general public.

This is a much more challenging project as the illustration is very precise in how it is able to convey the front features of both characters as well as make a believable ribbon that shows both the volume and shape of both heads.

As I mentioned, it was important that the work was now in the creative commons, even if I was not going to use the original work in my promo piece itself. Below is the image that I achieved in my first try at this. In hindsight, I had a few issues that I didn't fix, but will highlight during this article.

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The first step is finding a suitable photo - in my case, I wanted two images of myself - but, not mirrored and somewhat posed like the original Escher heads.

In my case, because I don't have long flowing hair - haha - it was easy to mask out my head from the background. This isn't strictly necessary …show more content…

I began working the text in InDesign, just to find the right font combination as well as a rough layout. I soon realized that writing the text all on a single line would be much too long for the image and the result is that the text would be too small in proportion to the heads, it just wouldn't look right. When I placed the Palberg above the WERX I knew I was then going in the right direction. For the most in control I created a unique layer for each letter and then just moved them around until the composition looked right. Next it was time to customize the

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