Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Owling


I wanted to practice cutting out parts of images clearly. I used the pen tool to crop out a basic outline then i used the eraser tool to clean up the edges. Afterward, there were some messed up hues leftover from the surrounding environment so I used a copy of the image that was desaturated. This layer was placed over the other with a mask layer so I could clear out the messed up hues.Finally, I added a fun background of water and grabbed a water splash brush to paint in the stirred up water.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Abstract 1


I made this in Photoshop, playing with difference clouds and the liquefy tool. Could be used as the background to a wallpaper

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

3:Gel


Did a tutorial on how to make gel-like shapes with a glow on them. Used layer styles to achieve this effect.

3:Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites


This image was inspired by the song Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites. I thought I was being clever. Played with the pen tool in Photoshop to create paths then filled the paths with the colors. I think the faces on the sprite cans couldve been a better color, but still looks ok. It gets the point across

3:Tattoo


Took a picture of my friend and desaturated it and increased the contrast to make it look like a tattoo then I placed it over the arm and used the warp tool to place it on there accurately.

3:Mohawk


Touched up some blemishes on my face then recolored my mohawk to make it green.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

2:Gandalf the Woof


Some Photoplasty using a picture of a dog uploaded on Facebook entitled "Gandalf the Gray"

I took it a step further and pasted the dogs face over Gandalfs, for fun.

2:Blood splatter BG


Using a picture of my wall, I created this high contrast blood splatter that I will probably use as a background or texture in a future project. I used the red alpha channel (best contrast) to get a really solid selection of the splatter. Cleaned it up with a brush and some layer adjustments.

Its not actual blood on my wall, its just paint =)

2:Reticle


The result of playing around with a scope reticle on Photoshop. Using the pen tool i created the paths and used a fill for the red cross, and a stroke for the lines.

Image of the tent comes from www.cgtextures.com

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

2:Glowing Text Wallpaper



My own take on a tutorial from planetphotoshop. I made a wallpaper for my friend, Marcus using a theme I think he would like. It was really fun making and really opened up my eyes to a whole new way to be creative on Photoshop. Cant wait to see what I can come up with from what I learned here.

Bonus: I decided to use the 3d functions of Photoshop Extended and moved the text plane and little and zoomed it closer. Pretty neat

Thursday, March 22, 2012

1:Detroit Pizza Co


Here is one of the few logo designs I created using Illustrator. Not sure how I feel about it.

1:Infinity

Using Photoshop, I created a little image using a new favorite type of mine called Prophet.

Thanks go to Laith Naser for the typeface.

In this version of Prophet, it is not quite finished yet.

1:Loves Me Not


Using Illustrator, I made a petal and the center. Added the script to the petal, then I transferred them to Photoshop where I duplicated enough copies of the petals and arranged everything. Added a gradient to the center as a final touch in Photoshop

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

1:Pyro


I used to like playing with fire. I wanted to create something in photoshop really quick, so this is the result. I might revisit it later and make it more convincing by adding some singing at the finger tips and reshaping/transforming the flames.