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Illustration Friday

Here are a couple of my illustration friday pieces..

 
 
 

2012 Photoshop Collection samples

The following pictures are some samples of my 2012 Photoshop Collection booklet that I'm putting together for our Creative Image Design class. They include some of the techniques that I have learned over the past 4 semesters at Mohawk and also some techniques I have learned from a couple of websites.

 

This is my front cover design for the booklet and I decided to do a fire text technique. Fire is one of my favorite effects that I like to work on and play around with.

 

This is my back cover design the booklet and here I used a crack effect. Since I started out with a cracked wall in the front cover, I decided to keep the same look in the back but with a different technique.

 

This is the colour box technique from the ones that Phil provided us in class, except that I changed the squares for splashes to make it more interesting and give it a nicer look.

 

This is another fire technique I putting in my booklet, like I said is one of my favorites. I wanted to do this one because is a person I'm using and I wanted to see if I could actually make a fireman.

Since I had a second fire effect and it happened to be a fighter, I decided to make a fight scene between fire and water. The idea is to make it look as if the bad and good side of the same person were fighting against each other.

Final IWD poster

 

This is my final piece for my International Women's Day poster edited in InDesign

for printing copies. I also added a little description about my artist and my information.

Digital Landscape Drawing

 

This is a digital drawing of a landscape using the techniques learned in class.

DrakePin-up Speed Painting link

(Click here to go to his website)

Here is a link to this guy's videos of photoshop speed paintings which I thought are amazing and relate to what we are doing in our digital painting class. This might be good for inspiration or reference to our digital painting learning.

What is emotional labour?

Seth Godin defines emotional labour as "The act of connecting to another human being and making a change even if its not easy for you to do in that moment". For me emotional labour is when you do something that you don't want to do and you fake that you are happy doing it to make someone else feel good. Some examples of people whose jobs require emotional labour are bank tellers or flight attendants. These people have to look happy every single hour of their shift because they have to deal with customers, and customers want to be treated good for the service they pay for. Even though bank tellers and flight attendants get pay for their jobs, there are some people who do emotional work and don't get pay right away but get attention to their job which leads to future jobs.

One sample of a person who does emotional labour is Corey Barker. Corey makes video tutorials for a website called planetphotoshop, which offers free tutorials and tips for photoshop users. Corey makes a tutorial every week for the website about effects that he discovers on his daily routine. Maybe he gets pay or maybe not, but by doing this he will get the attention of someone who will need a job done the way he does it and is going to contact him to do it. Corey is a very successful person because he shares his ideas with everyone through the website. Every time he shares new tutorials, more people come to visit the website and the more attention he gets back.

In my case I might not be doing too much of emotional labour in my use of social media. This is because I'm new to blogging and have a hard time getting use to share every idea that I have. On the other hand I have been doing some emotional labour by helping classmates with things that they don't understand in class. We get together every week to work on homework and whatever they don't understand I show them how to do it and in return I get more practice and knowledge.

Some of my work

Here is a link to an online portfolio I have put together with some of my work. Enjoy!

IWD Poster Painting Final

For my title and name I decided to paint them in an orange yellow colour which is still part of the triad colour scheme that I chose for my painting. The name I decided to make it in a big bold type style and bleed it of the side, and the title I made it in a thin type style flushed left. This is my final piece for International Women's Day.

IWD Poster Painting IV

I decided to make the background darker to make more contrast with the spot light. To do this I started painting with purple at the top right corner going diagonal and blending it with the green thats under. I also started making guides for my title and the name of my artist with blue pencil and my next step is to paint them.

IWD Poster Painting III

Here you can see I added colour to her body and clothing. I use orange and purple which are two complementary colours of the green in the triad colour scheme.

IWD Poster Painting II

The next step is to identify the dark areas of the composition and start painting them. I made a spot light coming from the upper right corner and instead of painting it with a lighter colour, I applied a darker tone around it to make it stand out. Next I found the shadows in her body in reference to the spot light and identified them with the same tone I just used for the background. The result is shown in the picture.

IWD Poster painting

The next step is to prepare the masonite with a coat of gesso and then make a pencil drawing of the
woman. The next step is to start painting the background colour with acrylic. I chose to paint a green background and the result of my paint mix was a lime green look which I was happy with.

IWD Poster colour comps

 The next step in completing my poster is to choose the right colours for the composition and to this I used the website: www.colorschemedesigner.com which is a good reference of colour schemes. I chose to use the Triad colour scheme and thats how I got my combinations in the pictures. For the key colour I tried both warm and cool colours to see some variation and choose the best combination. At the end I decided to go with the green and purple combination.

 

IWD Poster Thumbnails

For my thumbnails I started with an idea of showing mostly her head but then I thought of making her on stage. First I had the idea of making her singing, then I remembered her main quality is dancing and thats where my third idea comes in. I also want to bring focus to her with a light from a corner or the two corners, that way I can also have a light effect on her body and play around with highlights and shadows.

Inspiration Image

This is the image I chose from the Al Parker's collection. I liked this one because of the details and realism he uses in the faces and the solid, shaped elements throughout the rest of the picture. I would like to try something like this for my poster, I think is a very interesting technique.

International Women's Day Poster

For my International Women's Day poster I am going to do my work on Shakira. I think Shakira is an influential women because not only she is an extraordinary artist, but she is also a person who helps the people who need it the most. She has a non-profit foundation called Barefoot Foundation, and it's mission is to make education universally available to every child.