Go Make Me Something

Stone Portrait

For this project, I took a picture of a man and turned him to stone using three different stone textures to add the cracks and stains and many hue/saturation and brightness/contrast adjustments to make everything blend together. I put gradients into the eyes to give them depth and allow them to blend with the rest of the bust. I added the bottom shadow and the spot light with the elliptical marquee tool. My biggest challenge with this project was making everything look like it belonged together.

Cartoon Me

El Guapo

For this project, I had to create a label for El Guapo, a fictional hot sauce brand, for a "client" with specific styles. I created the entire label in Illustrator and warped it in Photoshop to fit the bottles. For the add, I used gradients to create the feel of walls and a flat surface on which the bottle could rest and added in a gradient on the actual white part of the bottle to make it fit the background.

Pen Tool Exercise

 

This is just an exercise for using the pen tool, a tool that I have struggled to comprehend in the past. Although I struggled greatly with the last exercise, this worksheet gave me a much better understanding of how the tool works, and I am going to try working with it for my next project.

Macintosh 30th Anniversary Poster

This project was centered around using concepts from stylists that use primarily the font Helvetica to send a message. To stick to the theme, I used only a few colors, exact alignment, and, of course, Helvetica. I tried four different designs until I decided that this one was the most intriguing. The most challenging part of this project was finding a creative way to manipulate the words.

Retro Karting Poster

 

 

For this project, I toggled back and forth between Illustrator and Photoshop to design the different type layers. I used special brushes to paint on all of the pink and the elliptical marquee tool to round off the bottom one. For the Chris' Stag Do banner, I used illustrator to curve the words and made the checkered flags. The man on the kart is a mixture of blend modes to create the old-style printed look. Overall, this project was fairly simple, but I struggled with using Illustrator and finding proper fonts for this poster.