my paint brush

my paint brush

this is a texture i found online and i wanted to make a paint brush out of it so i used the marque tool to select a area and then i went to edit>define brush preset and named it.

CONCLUSION

Conclusion

I think this project went well in terms of final images The blog has been difficult due to uploading difficulties which has meant that it has been a slow process. In some ways the blog has been easier to use as the upload can be instant and it is cheaper to create however it is quite time consuming when images wont upload or take a long time to load on to blogger. I have word documents with print screen images that i cannot seem to add to blogger which means that the project looks incomplete. Due to this i will have to e-mail them to my lecturers instead!
I have enjoyed using the skills within image manipulation and this has been my favorite project within the two years of ND. My final images are fitting with the brief requoirements as they all contain or stemmed from my own original photographic images.

This image is from a book 'Digital canvasses 2010'. It is a photoshop image depicting a boat in the water with birds flying. The water texture has been erased with the eraser tool in photoshop giving a movement to the water and creating texture and depth to the water element. The crows become a main point of focus due to the depth of the black and their positioning in the composition. Crows often symbolise death and may give us some insight in to the missing persons from the boat. They an eeirie feel to the image.

explosions

The idea behind this image was to create an explosive scene to add an extreme factor to the image. I took this image in an abandoned film studio in St Agnes and decided to add another element to enhance the skaters movement. I added two elements to my original image the first of which was the poster on the wall of the building. I created this poster from scratch in Photoshop. I used a original poster and changed the colours and created textures and layers of filth to give an older feel to the image. The second element i added was the explosion which was taken from an image i found on the internet. I deleted all aspects of the image except for the explosion itself. I then flipped the explosion to point horizontally and i used transform scale to resize it to fit the scene.
I am happy with the end result but i wish that the sign was duller in colour as it does not fit the image in the way i intended it to.

Pierre Cardin by Patrick Morgan

This image looks like it was traced and scanned in. The exact details and proportions of the face and body suggest that this was hand drawn and traced. I think the colours are watercolour and ink based and were probably added before being scanned in. I like the scruffy, almost rushed effect that this portrait shows through the dripping ink and the harsh brush lines on the tie. The shading on the face suggests light and shadow through tonal values and exagerates the facial features well. The colour has only been partially used and this seems to drew the eye around the image but brings you to the lighter, uncoloured areas.

type06-Ghosto

I like the architectural/graphical layout of this image. The gridsystem compositioin works well with the design and shapes within the image. The guitars look hand-coloured instead of computer block coloured like the keyboard. The texture created by the guitar colourings introduces a more personal approach to the image. Again, the background is a muted colour however the introduction of a graduated grey gives the illusion of studio/natural lighting. The use of shadow around the objects make the image feel more 'real' and add a 2/D element to an otherwise flat image.

Puma advert-Ghostco.org

I like the way that the shoe is shredded showing you all aspects and design elements of the shoe. Like the insole which normally is hidden from view due to the construction of the shoe. The green lining draws your eye from the sole upwards through the image. The shadow looks like the shoe has been lit from above and has a real effect. The spiderweb shadow lines have a manga feel about them, with the shoe ripping apart this manga theme runs throughout the illustration. The paper texture background works well because it is quite subtle and gives a real photo element to the image. I like the stained crumpled paper as a texture and may think about using a similar one.

Zeitoun-Ghostco.org

This image is from the Ghostco website and reminded me of the 'grand theft auto' game graphics. This image is entirely computer generated and have no photographic element. I like the tonal ranges within this image which gives it a monotone feel. I would like to explore this within my own work. The lack of vibrant colours helps you to explore the whole image without your eye being drawn to one specific part.

danger

This is a sign i made and turned dirty to put in another illustration.

gold- gunsss

This image was created from a number of sources, my original photograph, downloaded gun brushes, downloaded textures and hand drawn shoes. All of these elements put together form an image of a red neck theme. I wanted to show the link between young people and gun culture linked again with video gaming and the issues surrounding the use of guns and violence within society.
I think this image shows these links well with the repetitive use of the gun silouette and the youth stood in a defiant nochlant pose.

sam at plaza

film strip

SAM-LOVE PARK

This final image contains film strip texture, dirty brusehes were used to make it look like an old negative. The only two original photo elements of my own are the bin on the left and the skateboarder on the right. The love theme originated from Michael Blabacs' images which revolve around a skate culture in Philadelphia. Love was the name of a famous park for skating and was one of the most iconic places within the sport. This park was closed and in this image i wanted to show the vintage feel that surrounds the legend of 'love'.

This image works really well as it looks like an original vintage image as a whole. You cant see where i have added elements as the vintage, dirty brushes merge the elements seemlessly together.

Dirty Concrete

paper

This image contains downloaded texture backgrounds (seen in the two images above this blog), tracing and original photographic elements. The puddle, person and skateboard were traced from an A4 original and scanned in at A4 to fit the scale of the original. This meant that when i merged the two together they fitted seamlessly. The colours used within the tracing are found within photoshop but were chosen to replicate the original photographic image. The background textures were found on the internet on cgtextures.com and they have added a vintage, aged feel to the final. The lines within this background cross the figure and give it a folded look, as if the image has been kept in a drawer or walklet for years.

I am pleased with the outrcome and believe it is the best image that i have created for this project.