The edge can be seen through the fog...

The end of the semester is upon us. As in, its here. now. Looking back, it was a pretty good semester. I feel like i learned a lot in this class. And all of my classes. All in all, I'd say it was a good semester. I have an improved knowledge of how to use Photoshop, and an even better knowledge of how to use Illustrator and InDesign. My pieces definitely fluctuated in degree of quality. The worst ones were probably the ones i spent the least amount of time on; or the ones i waited to the last minute to do. Because for some reason when it comes down to the last minute, it takes longer? and things get rushed. and things turn out like shit.

But again, I feel like most of my pieces were pretty strong. I really love my Julian Assange poster. and will probably have more printed later. :D As for now, this is farewell. Have a good Christmas everybody! I plan  to continue using this blog for artwork and such, as well as my other blog thislemonadesucks.blogspot.com for other news/happenings/shit. Farewell, Happy Holidays and God Bless.

Final Project

For my final project, i wanted to do something large. something that would stand out. so i did this.

Originally, the document is 36" x 48", however i could only get it printed in 17" x 22" because i couldn't get it printed on the large format printer. Its still badass in my opinion.

Houston, we have LANDED.

Good god. I think this is the hardest i've worked for a project in this class. and by hardest, i definitely mean spent the most time on. i think all in all ive worked 30 hours on this project.

MODUS OPERANDI

I god damn quite like this. If you don't, well, i'll accept your criticism, and then kill you substitute it for alternative truths. :D























**EDIT** Here are a few more of the pages. I havent entirely figured out how many pages this will take to get what i want. and i havent entirely figured out how many images i should have. but hey, it'll work out. :D

houston we have a problem?  

Hot damn.

Theres about 2 weeks of school left. Shyyyt. I might die otherwise. Anyways.
For my personal brochure project in InDesign, i want to do 3 spreads that all go together as one, yet stand alone by themselves. Something like an advertisement or poster or something.
Maybe taking something that already stands, and reconfiguring it for what i want to do.


Like a contest poster?

Maybe This one? I dont know.

Adobe InDesign (part uno)

We were to take a magazine spread, and recreate it using InDesign CS5. We used placeholder text for the text. I feel like i matched it pretty damn well.

This --^ is the original, i did the left half. :D

And then we did this shit…and i died.

Just in case no one noticed, im on a Tron kick. I'm so god damned ready for the new Tron Legacy to come out. I watched the first Tron from 1982, which also happened to be produced by Disney. 

In order of assignment: The exterior; the interior; and the LiveTrace. 

**EDIT** JUST SO WERE CLEAR, THE INTERIOR SUCKS, AND WOULDNT CO-OPERATE…and i was lazy. and i havent slept.

And then this happened in Ai.

We learned about using liveTrace and livePaint in illustrator today. Pretty cool shit. And now we know; and knowing is half the battle. Also, the perspective tool came in somewhere. I'm not really sure at this point being that I don't really remember most of class since I haven't had much sleep.

  This was done using the perspective tool. And Steve Jobs was posted up on that billboard using liveTrace and the perspective tool.

And this is just Jobs as done up in a yellow-red spectrum using livePaint.

This beauty was done using the perspective tool to grid out the perspective of building in a picture. Then the building faces were overlayed with colored rectangles and the perspective tool to recreated the building shape.

This is the before building.

Oh mah gawwwdddd.

Hokay, so either this i right, or this is wrong. idfk. this is what I have. Derp.

So first up, is my name. Yeah, smoke and gradients. I added a map as an overlay for the background. Hells yeah.

This is my first go for the home town. Buuut i didnt entirely like it. SOOOOO…

I made another, but I added a Gulf Coast Waterways Map to the background as an overlay.

For the love of Critique; and the sake of Sanity.

So I felt this was necessary after the last couple of days i've had; A few reasons why we, as artists and critics, should speak up and speak our minds in class/group critiques: (they are in no particular order)

Un.) Giving honest opinions is always better than just saying "I like it;" It gives the artist something to run with. Something to use.

Deux.) More talking = less boredom. It allows each other to engage in idea brainstorming and further allowing improvement.

Trois.) It keeps the teacher/critique leader from constantly asking for opinons and verbal engagement repeatedly.

Quatre.) It allows for a healthy dose of debate; whether between the artist and a viewer, or between two viewers with differing views. (Personally, I find debate enjoyable)

Cinq.) Say something. Point blank. Talking about the artists work can make the artist feel like all of their work wasn't for nothing. (I find this to be one of the better reasons to speak up; theres nothing i hate more than staying up super hella late,  just for people to be all silent and shit.)

Six.) No feedback is worse than negative feedback. Saying you don't like something, or were expecting something different, is far better than biting your tongue.

Sept.) For the sake of debating, please be honest about what you see. We don't have to absolutely love everything we see, but for the sake of criticism, if you hate it say it. (maybe in a more constructive way, with some adjectives, a few verbs, and maybe even some conjunctions.)


When we open our mouths, we perpetuate a moment of criticism and influence. Without this we can be left questioning and confused, lost and overwhelmed. We don't have to absolutely love everything we see, and we don't have to enjoy it either. As individuals we are entitled to our own opinions, whether people like them or not.

3D Extrude and Bevel.

 This is the one that we did in class. But i didnt like the flowers. Sooooo....I decided to use smoke. They both look equally cool to me. But I prefer smoke to flowers for more badass-ery.

And this is the one we did in class for our home towns…yeah, its sub-par…

Aaaaaaaaaand here some illustrator-photoshop combos…

And these are the illustrator-photoshop combo pieces. these are ehhh. But then again, im half awake. 

Derp. Heres some more illustrator shit. :|

Honestly i felt like many of my others from last week were more stand-alone design worthy than these, but its whatever. Derp derp. Here they are.

Illustrator things. :D

So for the most part, these are all pretty different. I played around a lot with the circle shape tool, and gradients. As I did more, i started playing with masking and did some pretty cool things with masking.
With the Third one i used the perspective tool to make shapes in perspective? yeah. With the fifth one, i came across this handy do-dad called the spiral tool? i think thats what it was. Anyways, it created some cool shtuff.

So this is what i've got.

I think this turned out pretty good. Wish i had done something a little different. but oh well. I thought the idea of doing a animation like this was pretty awesome. I literally took everyone of these shots; over 900 to be exact. Being that the weekend is still lively, I may do another short one for shits and giggles. MAY do another.

animation/movie.

So, i have 931 frames…my movie is going to be 2 minutes, unless i shorten it. did i mention i dont wanna do that?

So this happened…

I made a short movie/animation. With my friends Canon EOS Rebel XT i took 28 shots continuously. I think it turned out cool. I only wish i had more pictures to make it longer. Also, you can export animations in .mov format when using Photoshop™.

But i can't get the fucking thing to upload because Photoshop sucks cock at exporting. >:|

an-i-may-shun-z

So while looking for inspiration and ideas for my movie/animation, it hit me. Well, I more or less just realized it, but I made a couple animations back in high school. Simple, somewhat interesting, and not really that conceptual. But I did put a lot of work into them.

This first animation, is a broken heart. Cliche, but hey it was high school. Right? Right. I don't entirely remember how many frames it was, but i know it was somewhere in the neighborhood of like 30-50.

Clearly an exhibition of high school, teenage angst; amirite? Lawl.

This animation I made shortly after the first one. Simple. Thats about it. Used one basic image, like the first one, but then only tweaked it by putting a swirl filter on it. Creating this hypnotic-esque animation.


Herp, not the greatest in the world. but just something that  i remembered i had.