Daily Blog Post #26

In the spirit of Halloween, I made a creepy looking pumpkin with Jason's mask. I desaturated the images to give it a more old school look then used some level adjustments.

Daily Blog Post #24

ive been working on a design for the soccer sweaters this year. i used illustrator and a little bit of photoshop. any constructive criticism?

Daily Blog Post #23

so ive declared my alternate major (or minor), i forgot what they cal it at SDSU as Graphic Design because im interested. and i wouldnt mind getting some more knowledge about the subject. and today i was looking for some schools with a good graphic design program. most results filter to the art institute and alonso told me about new haven or something like that.. but up in connecticut..? i was wondering if you knew of any near by? or would recommmend any? thanks :)

Daily Blog Post #22

I have a picture of my date and I on homecoming but the lighting is terrible. i think it was the flash, so i tried to make it look a little better. i struggled a little. im still working with the levels and masking. i tried to add a watercolor effect to the background but it came out a little too dark. and at the nd i think it looks better, but it could be better

Daily Blog Post #20

yesterday, I was having complications with creating a halftone pattern, well actually I had no idea how to do it, so i googled it. I then was able to create the halftone pattern with illustrator and then I experimented with the expanded image. I made a really big mess, but messing around with individual and groups of part of the pattern helped me learn cool things..

Daily Blog Post #19

today i continued working on the tatoo effect piece and was able to finish it quite quickly. the harderst thing i had to do was maybe mask off some excess and queer looking areas of the tatoo. i learned that the key for realistic looking tatoos is the detail of the picture. pores are very important. the detail help the overlayed image blend in with the skin. i will be using this technique in order to edit the picture for my album cover.

Daily Blog Post #18

yesterday, for some reason, i got the idea to create another cd album cover. i want  to make it some gangster rap type thing. i think it would look cool with a picture of myself with some tats and a background of the slum or something. so the first thing i did, is open up the tutorial on how to make a realistic tattoo effect. i read through it and i was glad that i understood most of it. then i searhed for a tatoo that i would like to place on the guys face from the tutorial. i opened up illustrator and creating the vector tatoo is as far as i got.

Daily Blog Post #17

today i continued working on the same piece from yesterday. i started with the neck and i continued with the body. the arms is the last body part i did after realizing how hard it is to make everything proportionate. i gave the figure s crewneck and some cargo shorts to not leave it so bare. so what i got out of this is that im not good at proportions and that i dont like attempting to create people.

Daily Blog Post #16

yesterday, i didnt know what to do, i was just messing around with the pen tool and i ended up with something that looked like a beany. then i got the idea to make a person using the pen tool. so that is what i worked on dutring the period. i think the nose looks funny but it works for me. i used some brushes for the eyebrows and eyelashes. i was pleased by how these came out.

Daily Blog Post #15

one of the things that attracts me the most are abstract designs. anything from textures to circles and arrows and anything 3D. i usually have very dark abstract wallpapers and i have also tried drawing my own. so i decided to look at some abstract art in google images. i saw many that attracted me, but very few that i had the slightest idea of how to create. i saw a simpler one that i decided to use as somewhat of a guide but most of the work i did was my own.

yesterday i set up a light kind of pastel yellow color for the background with darker stripes. then i mostly used the cirle tool and star tool and line tool to create figures scattered all over the background. then i added arrowheads to the lines to make them look like arrows as well as some really random swirls. the first picture is what i completed yesterday.

today i decreased and increased the size of the arrows to add a little variety. then i colorized the circles. i wanted some contrast so i used dark red and gray colors and some really dark mustard type color to go with the background. with the circles colored, the back still looked somewhat empty, so i decided to add some texture which had been my initial thought, but i totally forgot. i used texture symbols. some that looks kind of like a texturized wall as well a some splatters. i messed around with the blending modes. the last touch was a flare from the flare tool. the huge flare was kind of an accident because the mouse moved, but it ended up looking like a galaxy i think.

Daily Blog Post #14

today i finished the soda bottle label i have been working on. it didnt come out as cool as i pictured it. maybe because i rushed through things. i didnt really take my time to make it look that nice. what i did like was the colors. the rest was like blahh. i thnk i can do better but ive had a rough day. maybe ill come back to this, but for now im done. i think i may need to focus on a project that will keep me entertained for a while without getting bored by it.

in order to complete this, i used some gradients for the background as well as the center circle. i used the pen tool to make the word "fresh" in the middle of the circle. ant the rest was type. so thats pretty much it. nothing too fancy well besides the plastic effect on the logo and circle.