4th Quarter Work
4th Quarter was time to do personal work. The class split into two main groups- those who wished to do digital art with Photoshop and those who wanted to make videos. The second part of the quarter we actually worked on our personal projects. I chose to work with Adobe Photoshop CS5 and a Wacom Tablet. Below are examples of both the practice work with Photoshop and the tablet, and my personal project pieces (featured below in "Character Design/Digital Painting".
All of the work show my progress with Photoshop and the tablet- as the quarter progressed, I continued to get more familiar with both tools, till now it is almost as natural as drawing with traditional materials (more so because I don't often colour with coloured pencils).
All of the work show my progress with Photoshop and the tablet- as the quarter progressed, I continued to get more familiar with both tools, till now it is almost as natural as drawing with traditional materials (more so because I don't often colour with coloured pencils).
Digital Painting
Digital Painting are either pictures that I took and then used the paint mixer tool in Photoshop to make look like a painting, or drawn from reference of a painting. The first and last are both examples of referenced paintings, while the middle one is done using the paint mixer tool.
Photo-manipulation
Photo-manipulation is where I took a picture that I took, then applied an vector to it to make it appear extremely saturated. Over that I painted it black and by turning down the opacity, "scratched out" over what I wanted to be seen. Once I was finished, I turned the opacity back up to 100%, giving it the appearance of traditional scratch art.
One the first picture displayed below, I added another layer where I wrote my friend's name over and over. I did the same to the second picture, except for that instead of her name, I wrote some of her prose work. The third picture is a different technique all together. Instead of "scratch-art", I applied an antique look to it, that I would write out the steps to except that the steps are long and many. The other pieces displayed are done using the "scratch art" technique.
One the first picture displayed below, I added another layer where I wrote my friend's name over and over. I did the same to the second picture, except for that instead of her name, I wrote some of her prose work. The third picture is a different technique all together. Instead of "scratch-art", I applied an antique look to it, that I would write out the steps to except that the steps are long and many. The other pieces displayed are done using the "scratch art" technique.
Character Design/Digital Painting
The examples below are, in my opinion, my best representative of the work I am now capable of doing in photoshop. The "paintings" below are in order of first to latest.
The first three paintings are for character designs for a combined webcomic a friend and I plan on launching in the near future. It is called "The Pirates Who Do Nothing (All Day Long)". The project originated from a strange happenstance in class, where said friend drew another friend as a "guy". The surrounded crowd agreed that the picture looked as if she was a pirate. Thus this was borned. All characters in the story are actual people, except reverse gender (so all guys in the comic are girls in real life and vise versa).
The fourth drawing is an unfinished colouring in of my February calander (which can be viewed under "Welcome & Some" or "Calander Project" in the "art" menu). I included it to show how I work in Photoshop- each "object" (dress, hair, skin, bench, etc) is on a different layer, so that if I chose to "scrap" one, I don't lose the entire project. To chose colours I wish to use in the painting I sample them on the painting, and when I'm satisfied with a colour, I add it to a master pallet of all the colours I will use in that drawing. If I really like the colour, I add it to the "master-master" pallet so that I can use it again for other projects.
The last drawing is an unfinished drawing for another character in a story/comic that I am working on. The name of this one is "Southfire Pheonix", a story of supernatural, afterlife, and the human mind.
The first three paintings are for character designs for a combined webcomic a friend and I plan on launching in the near future. It is called "The Pirates Who Do Nothing (All Day Long)". The project originated from a strange happenstance in class, where said friend drew another friend as a "guy". The surrounded crowd agreed that the picture looked as if she was a pirate. Thus this was borned. All characters in the story are actual people, except reverse gender (so all guys in the comic are girls in real life and vise versa).
The fourth drawing is an unfinished colouring in of my February calander (which can be viewed under "Welcome & Some" or "Calander Project" in the "art" menu). I included it to show how I work in Photoshop- each "object" (dress, hair, skin, bench, etc) is on a different layer, so that if I chose to "scrap" one, I don't lose the entire project. To chose colours I wish to use in the painting I sample them on the painting, and when I'm satisfied with a colour, I add it to a master pallet of all the colours I will use in that drawing. If I really like the colour, I add it to the "master-master" pallet so that I can use it again for other projects.
The last drawing is an unfinished drawing for another character in a story/comic that I am working on. The name of this one is "Southfire Pheonix", a story of supernatural, afterlife, and the human mind.