Who is the practitioner (what is their name?) and when were they practicing?
The practitioner i have chosen is a british digital artist who chooses to maintain the moniker of @b0neface rather than declaring his real name to the public, who is quite well known for working on large projects with games studios and musicians
What is the title of the photo or video you have chosen to analyse (can you provide a link?)
The image is accompanied solely by the caption “Gone.”
With the photo or video, you are examining when was it produced (date)?
This particular piece in question was produced and published on the 16th of January, 2018 on both his Instagram and Twitter, establishing the production date as confirmed
How was the photo or video authored?
While this work isn’t a photo, it is a digital work, most likely authored in Photoshop cs6 or some other form of digital painting application. This is important because this control over the creation of the image provides the affordance of pre-planning, allowing the author to crop, shape and create the image in a way ahead of time with Instagram or whatever platforms they may have in mind. B0neface’s use of negative space indicates a planned image based around the constraints of the Instagram’s grid interface. For comparison, B0neface would have edited the original image or created an alternate versions for his other publications on twitter and the like.
Most likely he works from a single parent file, of which he edits and creates child copies, as most of his works are created with being taken to print in mind, so while he does specifically crop and edit for digital release, i believe he keeps the raw file unaltered so as to have the best quality for print
How was the photo or video published?
Now, while this image in particular is a direct upload of his work, it sort of deviates from the norm from his work, as generally he uploads photos of the final print of his work. Meaning his work would be published and printed on card stock for selling at some later point. This image in particular though, was uploaded to his Instagram and twitter, but not his personal web page. Interestingly enough, his twitter post provides a more portrait style cropping, alongside two other close ups of his work. This could be due to the fact that twitter affords the author a way of displaying multiple images at once, while Instagram’s handling of multiple images in one post can be seen as a constraint.
How was the photo or video distributed?
This image was posted on only a handful of his platforms, his most popular being his twitter and Instagram. Funnily enough he neglects to use hashtags or anything of the sort on any of his works, as it seems he may have made a name for himself from working on larger projects that he no longer uses hashtags or relies on any of those systems, instead choosing to rely on his existing fanbase and word of mouth.
While this may be the case with hashtags, he does tend to cross post and link wherever he can between his platforms, consistently posting links to his home site and Instagram on his twitter posts, and while he is unable to link outwardly on his posts, he links to his own site in the bio of his Instagram, despite having not updated it since 2016
References
B0neface, Self Titled, viewed 27 April 2019, <http://www.boneface.co.uk/>.
b0neface 2018, Gone… , Twitter, 16 Jan, viewed 27 April 2019, <https://twitter.com/b0neface/status/953236372327993344?lang=en>.