The Dividing Line

My sincerest apologies that I have not posted anything recently. I just finished my exams for the end of the semester and was preoccupied with that. However, here is a quick design that I came up with today. Relatively simplistic but kind of fun. Give me some feedback on what your opinions are!

Airplane Abstraction

This is a project for a class at school. We had to choose a theme and then get reference photos and abstract it. Most of the painting are pictures from the cockpit of airplanes. I looked at different color palettes from colourlovers and then played around with different values of the hues. I was actually quite pleased with the finished product. I have yet to recieve my grade on it. Let me know what you think!

Free Vector

Ok, so here is a vector that I made recently. Try clicking it then right clicking and selecting Save as... to save it to your computer. Open it in Illustrator to edit it. I will be trying to do more work with creating vector images and what not but we will just see where things go! Another good idea for this is to take it into photoshop and turn it into a brush. Enjoy!

T-shirt Idea

Ok, well I going to have a post about my first attempt at vector art, but I could not get the colors to display correctly on the web so instead I am uploading a design that I have started on for a t-shirt. I plan on cutting the print so that it can be used as a stencil and I plan on using spray paint to give the shirt a more authentic look. The design would go across the front of the t-shirt. I may end up changing the swashes so that is goes diagonally across the entire front side of the shirt. Also, the colors on this are not displaying correctly but it is relatively close. The text is orange, the background is black, and the swashes are a medium to medium dark blue. Give me some feedback on what you guys think.

Oops!

My sincerest apologies to everyone about not updating anything this past week. The school year is starting to wind down and with the busyness that it entails I have had a hard time doing much of anything. I also just finished reformating my computer's harddrive and forgot to save a few files so I am going to go hunting for some files and what not so please try to work with me and I will try to do my best update the blog this week! Best Regards!

Random Photo

In this photo, I composited two images together from the trip to Charleston I went on. This background image is an image of girls standing under an archway. I then placed a picture of a bench that had been scratched really badly on top of the first image and lowered the fill and opacity. I then added a filter that turned the darker shadows an orange color and finally added some text. The whole process from start to finish probably took me ten to fifteen minutes to do simply because I was playing with different filters and opacity levels on the images. I came up with the text by looking at the picture itself. I approached it as if the photo was old and the scratches and color were because of mishandling. Let me know what you guys think about this piece!

Photo of the week!

Ok, so as I promised here is the photo of the week. This picture was taken in Charleston, SC near Rainbow Row. I found this when I was walking around taking pictures of textures for future projects. It really intrigued me because of the narrowness of the alley as well as the wall with ivy crawling on it. The girls were some of my friends who were with me that day. I really like how the image has a lot of depth but the focus is very centralized and it encompasses everyone with an equal amount of attention.

Photo of the week!

Ok, so for all of you that were excited because of photo of the week I am announcing that I am actually postponing it till Sunday simply because I am going to Charleston today and anticipate being able to get some really neat shots. Well, that is all... Enjoy your day!

Sketches

Ok, so I thought that I would upload some sketches of projects that I am thinking about starting or that I have already started on. This is just to show you where I am heading in the near future and what you see will take place from these rough drawings to final product.

Blending Modes

Blending modes can be very useful when editing photos, creating collages, etc. Using a blending mode is not enough though, you need to make sure that you play with your fill and opacity levels as well. Duplicating layers and changing blending modes can give you some amazing results, just remember that the more layers you make the larger your file size becomes, so remember to flatten the image when you are done with the entire project to reduce the size of your file. Only flatten your image once you have made a duplicate of the image. Once an image is flattened and saved, you cannot go back to the different layers and make changes. Below is an image that I created using blending modes.


I composited the girls into this image like I showed you in the previous post. Once I had placed them where I wanted them and made sure their size was correct, I duplicated each of the girls and the first layer I used Overlay as the blending mode, taking the opacity and fill somewhere in the range of 45-60%. With the second layer I used Lighten for my blending mode. The "ghost" look I thought went well with the way the image disappears into the fog. The image I used for the background was a stock image I found on google.