Laboratory Waste

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Control the visual hierarchy by applying contrast of hue, contrast of value, and contrast of saturation to illustrate the messy cell culture waste from biomedical laboratories.

Process:

  • Rough
    • The background is relatively cluttered, so the contrast and overall visual center needs to be controlled. Therefore, the visual of the finished artwork was first considered at the draft stage.
    • Contrast of hue: The visual center is a pink color and the background is a blue color, with a translucent pink cell culture medium as a transition between the visual center and the background. The blue latex gloves are placed on the pink area to create a strong contrast.
    • Contrast of value: the brightness of the visual center is higher, the brightness of the background is lower.
    • Contrast of saturation: the area near the visual center is more saturated, and the area far away from the visual center is less saturated.
    • Visual hierarchy guidance: Several pipette tips in the background point to the visual center (character) to guide the viewer’s line of sight.
  • Lineart

    • Adjustments to the structures which were not considered in the rough sketch.
  • Rendering to the character
    • Changes were made to the color based on the sketch to match the structure of the lineart.
  • Rendering the background and coloring the lineart

  • Rendering the 6-well plate

  • Rendering the pipette tips
    • Also tracing the 6-well plate and the pipette tips that are not covered by it.
  • Adding filters to further reduce the contrast and saturation of the background.

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