Monday, November 05, 2007

Have you felt...

the unforgettable instant when everything started to make sense even as absolutely nothing was making sense?

Friday, November 02, 2007

Moonriver...


Moon River, wider than a mile,
I'm crossing you in style some day.
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker,
wherever you're going I'm going your way.

Thursday, November 01, 2007

Buildings

I really like this work of mine for me it's like it came from a comic book or a 3d scale model.

What really made me enjoy it was the fact that I was able to (well at least in my opinion) pull off the perspective. As well as the shadow's lights and all those things. It is not too cartoony and well it's pretty easy on the eyes.

I would have wanted it with colors but I had some trouble in giving light and shade to color objects so grayscale for now.


Name

Saw this style in a picture once. I liked the look it seemed uhm well "Gummy" so i was amused when I saw a tutorial on how to make this thing so with no word coming to mind, I just decided to use my name for it.


Octo


Pen tool practice hehe.

After a friend saw my Love Me. Please? work She told me that I should continue doing it. I thought why not? and decided to try my hand at making a different pen tool created creature. And the end thing was Octo.

Actually the octopus wasn't that hard to do. It was the bubbles that gave me trouble. I used a tutorial for that and I guess it looks pretty good for a cartoon bubble.

Tiles

I borrowed Hans' graphic design book called breaking the grid, and one of the images there featured well a grid.

I tried to apply the grid in my work and here is what I came up with. The girl is from a picture taken from MAXIM magazine Korea.

This work is basically another practice in figuring out the different Blending options.


Smooth


Another tutorial based work...

Just the application of around 4 filters I think, and some more layer blending options. It looks nice but honestly, I have no idea where I can use this thing that I learned. I mean it's great as a stand alone wallpaper/focus of a poster but other than that, I have no idea where else I can apply the technique.

Squares


I was browsing through a graphic design book that I got and saw a design that was quite similar. I tried to interpret it in my own way and that is what happened.

I guess it's not really the final image that is important but what I learned while doing it (yes a terrible excuse for a badly done design).

So what is it that I learned? In this design I became more particular with using the grids (hence the title). I also figured out some uses for using layers as clipping masks. And also the effects of a soft brush.

Vanity Wallpaper

I saw the lightning tutorial from one of those photoshop tutorial sites and because of my vanity decided to just use it as a background to one of my pictures.

Typical photomanipulation techinques. Lasso tool to get the picture out of the background, Then posterize filter, then colorized it to red, then finally added the lightning thingies...

The size and layout are like that because I made them as a wall paper for my laptop/. Yes vanity indeed.



Save the turtles... Save the world.

I was tasked with doing the powerpoint for our group's final Theology 151 presentation, our topic was about the pawikans in the Philippines. I needed a turtle to use in the powerpoint, a mascot of some sorts and so I got one from the net, which was basically the easiest and probably most prevalent thing to do.

However I went with a black background with the power point and the image i got from the net had a white square around it. So instead of just cropping/lassoing or magically erasing the background. I went and just pen tooled the whole thing and made a vectorized turtle image hehe, Part of it was a practice for my photoshop thing i guess but the other is the constant reminder of my CS 176 professor about copyright images hehe.

Face 2

I am part of the school org ACTM and one of my tasks there was to be a hometeam head. Well I added someone by mistake and turns out she was pretty good with doing photoshop work.

I was browsing through her gallery in multiply when I saw her try to transform a pixel based image into a vector style one, I got her source, and tried it out for myself. And well turns out I'm not pretty good, but comparing it with the other one that I made this wasn't too bad.

Her version was actually the whole picture (with the body, background and all) but halfway through working on the face I began to realize how sucky my work was so I mercifully ended it by just doing the head.


Magazine Cover

I had all the Photoshopped things that I made in a folder here, I haven't upped them since well because I was too lazy.

Well anyway, here is one of the older things that I have made. Since It was done for project 2 of sir David Q. Tran's CS 176 class (electronic publishing). He required us to make a travel magazine.

The cover was probably the only thing that I did well in that project, but well it was enough for a 95 i think so Not too bad I guess.

Basically some filters, and layer blending options for this one. I'm not really a big fan of brown but I guess it fit my chosen topic so I just used it.