Archive for the ‘Random Artwork’ Category
These graphics are experiments using photoshop clipping layers with simple shapes but lots of layers and effects, mainly half-tone pattern and distortion filters. My class has some design projects with music industry students producing electronica and these are some demo graphic and techniques to get them started. The heart shape is a theme for one of the groups.
I have designed and uploaded a web site for my Tranquilistics music project. I wanted the site to showcase the new material produced and provided an interface for people to listen and download the music and video. While most of this material is available on this blog, the songs can now be downloaded for free and the project has its own space and identity on the net.
The site is HTML and CSS based and was created in Dreamweaver CS5 and PhotoShop to the 960 grid system. The site uses some flash based elements, mp3 player, FLV video and Lightroom image galleries. For music and video there are alternative downloads for users without Flash. I have been teaching CSS web design again this semester and have used various aspects of this interface design for examples and demonstrations in class. This site was tested with Safari and Firefox browsers but please let me know if you see problems with the site.
These are front and back designs for a promotional post card I designed for my friends Karlie and Kystal at Rococo Creations who make amazing hand made fascinators and fancy headpieces for ladies. We did some photo shoots of all the pieces and this postcard to promote the work. The closest I have come to fashion work, I little out of my personal style but good practice for other target markets. www.rocococreations.com
This is another high res Thai inspired photoshop piece developed from a holiday photograph. I see this image as a real battle between good and evil – or perhaps like the Egyptian “weighing of the heart” once you die, “Testing Karma” seemed an apposite name for the image. There are many hours of colouring and experimentation in the image. I have used some marbled textures to add some movement and life in the composition. Its been a little hard to balance the saturation of the final without losing the impact but I think this last versions right. This image is used coloured and uncoloured throughout my Tranquilistics “Grand Illusions” video.
These images are of marbled watercolour paper that have been dyed with japanese Sumingashi inks that float on the surface tension of the water and are then transferred to paper by floating it on the surface. I used these inks when I was younger and paper quality is very important as cheap paper warps and bends. I used Arches Watercolour 185 gsm smooth to transfer the designs and then placed them on an angled piece of glass to drain off excess water and ink and to dry flat. The patterns are amazing but always a little washed out from the process. After they are dry they are scanned at A4 600 dpi that produces a very detailed image and then corrected and colour enhanced enhanced to dramatically increase the saturation of the patterns. The top row of images are the whole patterns while the bottom row is a small section from the top image showing the detail of the patterns produced. It’s cool to arrive at these patterns through natural means and not just photoshop filters, kind of a more analogue to digital approach.
This design is what I would consider to be a major photoshop piece, high resolution taking almost a week to fully complete with a lot of very fine detail that has been coloured all by hand with a wacom tablet. This thai inspired design is from a statue I photographed in Thailand that has then been coloured and blended up in photoshop CS5. I wanted to do large experimental piece to really get used to CS5 – I have found the change to be fairly seamless with many of the small changes quite effective. The artwork is loosely based off one of my new songs “Grand Illusions” I Have really become used to working with the new intuos 4 tablet on this image.
This design is the logo for my music project I have going called Tranquilistics. I didn’t want anything to stiff and formal and after a few days of working glyphs, curves and vectors came up with this design that I’m going with for now anyway. It may be a it hard for some to read as it an “invented” word but I’m happy for it to be a little encrypted. Background art is a vector design composed of several tattoo bird and Phoenix designs that I traced with a Wacom Intous 4 tab using the blob tool. I need to get my technique a little better with the tablet as my usual workflow would drawn be by hand then traced in illustrator to produce the vectors.
Theses images are a bunch of random and psychedelic experiments with layer blending and coloration. All created in photoshop with some initial vector shapes from Illustrator. lots of duplicating, blending and blurring. Top 3 are experiments, the scarab was for a test for alchemist and the third image’s pattern is derived from lizard skin. I always revert to doing these balanced patterns from time to time, the bottom 3 are crumpled and roughed up paper, scanned, duplicated and blended. It almost looks like opal with some colours. These may have been used as backgrounds in the Alchemist Tripsis record but the rest are unused.
This image just emerged as I was playing with some shapes in Illustrator, I often end up making this totem style artwork with lots of eyes. I get a real chilled zen vibe when I look at it so I may use it for something one day.
I use these files in my classes to demonstrate how to produce beautiful clean vectors from original drawings, these are the steps.
