Throughout my university years, I learned how to use the Adobe Creative Cloud by experimenting with it for various projects I was assigned to make. For this project, in particular, I mainly used Premiere Pro and Photoshop. I started with videos, clips from superhero films assembled together to make the viewers feel a certain way. The colours were enhanced or diminished to try to highlight the main emotion that I wanted to evoke. This method proved unhelpful as people were focusing too much on the characters they were seeing and not on the colours themselves, the main point faded to the background.

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Once the lockdown happened, I had to rethink my project considering the tools I actually had access to. My first idea was to take pictures, playing with lights and shadows and use Photoshop to add certain colours afterwards. I had two concerns with this. First, I was unable to get access to a professional camera, so I had to take pictures using my phone. While the quality was good in the beginning, once I transferred everything between my devices and tried to edit them, the images stopped being as sharp as when I first took them. Second, the Adobe Creative Cloud was refusing to work properly on my laptop. Over and over, it kept freezing and shutting down without saving any of my work. After a few failed trials, I decided I should look into something else.

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I have not painted anything in quite a few years. I am good at drawing and colouring with pencils, but painting always felt like a different level. Regardless, I decided that there was no better time to start than right now, so I ordered all my art supplies and started to paint. I would not say they are ready for an art gallery, but they certainly got better as I kept making new ones. I painted in many different styles - some clearer, some more abstract. I used the main colours shown throughout superhero genre films, both the ones used for the heroes and the ones used for the villains. In certain paintings, I tried to portray just one character without making it clear who it was. For those ones, I used their theme colours, making them lighter or darker - however I saw fit. I took pictures of all of my paintings and sent them to a few people without explaining what the intentions behind each of them were. I gave them 3 questions to help with their analysis and told them to just write whatever they felt – do not overthink it, just speak from your heart. The answers I got were actually quite surprising, some were similar, but some were completely different. I believe this last experiment worked the best because people were not influenced by any other source, they were just reacting to what was in front of them. 

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For the exhibition, I experimented with a few apps I found online until I found Tayasui Sketches. I deconstructed my drawings in order to showcase the character they were supposed to represent. Afterwards, I slightly edited each of them in order to give them a rougher look.