Inspirational Digital Art

 

Hue

Example of Hue;

Chroma

Example of Chroma;

Value

Example of Value;

Thai Cuisine

In class today we were given a task similar to the last two where we had to communicate a subject without actually using the the words. Todays words to communicate were 'Thai Cuisine.' The first one was to be images, the second images plus text, the third a vector image without text, the fourth vector images plus text and the last as minimal as possible.
The following are my final products.

Hue, Value and Chroma

Hue: The colour of an image or object. eg: "the hue of her face was bright red"

Value: adding black and white to an image to give us a shade or a tint. eg: adding white to red to give a pink tint, adding black to red to give us a brown shade.

Chroma: The intensity or purity of a colour also known as saturation. eg: reducing the intensity of the shades and tints of the image.

Explore the use of colour

In illustrator we have be set a task to choose which colours we believe would work better for different businesses around the Wagga Wagga area. 

The Lawson Motel

Colour: Dark/Warm Purple

Reasoning: This motel in Wagga Wagga is classy and sophisticated so i believe that a deep purple and maybe a silver for the writing instead of the gold would look a lot more classy.

This colour is related to sensibility and beauty. 

Hungry Jacks

Colour: Yellow and Red

Reasoning: The colours used in the logo i find are working well together. the colours red and yellow are both energetic and draw the eye. Many restaurants use these colours in there logos to they are bight and stand out many people also say that warmer colour like the colour red increase our appetite.

Fitzpatrick Real Estate

Colour: Blue and White

Reasoning: The Fitzpatrick is a local real estate agent. i beleive their logo is using to many colours that makes the logo look over crowded. for this logo i beleive that just the blue that has been used and a white would have a greater impact.

the colour blue represents confidence and loyalty which if you are purchasing a house you want a "loyal and confident" agent. 

Crown Computers

Colour: Royal Blue and White

Reasoning: The colours for this logo i believe work well together. again the colours blue and white represent 'loyal, confident and success' because this business is a computer repair business i believe that a confident and successful image is crucial for their reputation. 

Matt Jenkins Homes 

Colours: Brown and Gold

Reasoning: the reason i have chosen a brown and a gold colour for this logo is because brown is a woody constructive colour and i believe that it would work well for a house construction business. Gold is also a colour that stands for wealth.

Romanos Hotel

Colour: Burgundy/purple and black 

Reasoning: i believe the colours of this logo should be a burgundy and black. i have chosen the burgundy colour because it is the colour that they have painted the building. These colours also give the hotel a sophisticated and classy look which can be good for their reputation. 

Beyond Blue

Colour: Blue and Grey

Reasoning: the reasons i have picked the blue colour for this is because beyond blue and a helpline for depression and anxiety. the colour blue can represent calm, secure and trustworthy which is a relevant image for a depression helpline, while the they is a soothing colour which represents stability.

World Vision

Colour: Orange and Black

Reasoning: The colours that have been used for this logo i believe are very well thought out. The colour orange relates to High-Spirits and Youth which is relevant to this sponsor group because they help give children with needs over in less wealthy countries high spirits.

Rock 'n' Roll Exercise

In photoshop we were set a task to produce 5 images that communicates the words Rock 'n' Roll.

The first image was to just communicate Rock 'n' Roll without using any text what so ever. the second was an image communicating Rock 'n' Roll and using text. the third was a vector based image with no text. the fourth was a vector based image using text and the last one was an image with minimal but still communicating Rock 'n' Roll. The catch with all these images was that we were not allowed to use the word Rock 'n' Roll at all throughout the exercise.

The following are mine...

Circus Exercise

In photoshop we were set a task to produce 4 images that communicates the word circus.
the first image was to just communicate circus without using any text what so ever. the second was an image communicating circus and using text. the third was a vector based image with no text and the fourth was a vector based image using text and the last one was an image with minimal but still communicating circus. The catch with all these images was that we were not allowed to use the word circus at all throughout the exercise.
The following are mine.

Feelings and emotions/ colours

For our first day back at in illustrator we started our new unit on 'colour.'
todays exercice required that we choose the colours that suited to the different feelings and emotions.
the following is mine.

Typography

We were given a task in photoshop to create two different typography images. One of an animal of our choice, which i chose to do the penguin. The other image was to be a self portrait of ourselves.
The following are my two final typography images

Penguin

Self Portrait

Graphic Design Resources

Websites


Tutorials

This website was quite helpful, it offers a list of tutorials about how to create and design certain lighting effects- http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/photoshop-lighting-effects/ 

Just one of the many tutorials on how to create Abstract Line designs using illustrator- http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/tutorials/how-to-create-an-abstract-vector-design-in-illustrator


i found this site really helpful for a lot of things. On this website there are tutorials for many things that you may need to do in photoshop and illustrator- http://abduzeedo.com/tutorials

the following blog site i found had a various amount of illustrator tutorials. they are quite easy and simple to understand i recommend looking at this site- http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/articles/50-illustrator-tutorials-every-designer-should-see

another really good website that was really resourceful to both illustrator and photoshop was http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/tutorials/ this website has numerous tutorials and demonstrations on different things that you can create and design.

Portfolios


the following websites are ones that i use to help start getting ideas when creating and designing different projects.

http://www.deviantart.com/
http://www.redbubble.com/
http://lyndonwade.com/
http://www.theloop.com.au/portfolios/Design-Creative-/
http://www.joliuphotography.com/book1.html


Blogs


http://www.graphicdesignblog.org/ This website was a really good reference. it is a host blog site for graphic designers to diplay their work.

http://blogs.agda.com.au/blog/view/post/the-value-of-agda The Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA) is the national organisation for professional graphic designers.


There are millions of blogs to do with graphic design. some that appealed to me are;


http://www.graphic-design-blog.com/2011/06/jakob-wagner-new-york-photography.html


Videos/Youtube


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eneyl4KS99A- this youtube video i found useful. it is a quick photoshop tutorial on how to add a dramatic colour effect to your images.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsiQptl_Y9E- this video i found really interesting, it is a really easy to understand guide on how to give a virtual weight loss appearance to a figure in an image using photoshop tools.

Another good resource website to use is the adobe website. they have a 'video tutorial' option which gives you a list of easy to understand video tutorials.
(Illustrator video tutorials) http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Illustrator/14.0/WSA062795C-1C55-4549-8F48-CA796D1800C4.html

http://www.lynda.com/newreleases.aspx One of the greatest video tutorial websites on the web. This website will give you answers on various computer related subjects. Defiantly would highly recommend checking this site out.


Search Engines


If you have an question that you need answering, search engines are a great way to get that question answered.

http://www.google.com.au/
http://www.bing.com/
http://www.ask.com/
http://search.yahoo.com/web?fr=alltheweb
http://www.gigablast.com/
http://www.altavista.com/

Print/Other


Magazines


Go fish: comes out once a year. it is a design magazine where you can design an image according to a theme that they set to you and you can upload your images to see if they get into the magazine. great to look at, really interesting designs.

IDN (international designers network): a really interesting magazine displaying different designers work.

Books


Photoshop for dummies: Personally this book was really helpful to me starting out. It was a great reference book, anything you need to know about photoshop is in this book.

Graphic Design Essentials: This book is about the beginning principles with design skills and software instruction.

Childrens Farm Safety Magazine Page

After the first magazine page we created in photoshop, Luke then gave us a task to design another magazine page using only his content that he supplied. This page was to be about Children's farm safety. The following is what i came up with.

Magazine Page

In photoshop we were asked to choose our own musical group and create a full A4 spread about the group for a magazine page. the type content had to be our own by the images were allowed to be copied.
For my design i chose to do the "Hilltop Hoods" i chose this group because i knew the majority of the information that i have written already. The following is my final product..

CD Cover (Photoshop Assessment)

For the last term in photoshop we have been working on an assessment, to create and design our own dual case CD covers.

This in my final product..

Front Cover/ Back cover of booklet

Inside Pages

Back Cover and Spines

Inside Sleeve (Behind CD)

CD Face

Information:

Genre: Pop/Country

Reasoning: For the marjority of this assesment i have based it around things that have happend to me during my lifetime. The reasons i have chosen to do this genre is because 'country' reflects my past. i personally don't like country music but i have grown up in the country so it that is the reason i have chose to do this genre. I also have based the tracks around things that are important to me in my life. 

Colour Schemes: I chose a colour scheme that was a sepia tone. I then carried this colour scheme throughout the cover using browns and a shade of beige for the main title. I feel that the tones give the cover a warm country feel.

Imagery: All the imagery for this assessment had to be our own. I chose to put myself on the cover but i didn't just want to plain and simply put my face on the cover so i have only placed half on my face on the front. On the back i have then placed an image of myself again but this time i have used the rear of my head. This gives the illusion that it is the 'front and back' of the left side of my face.

Typeface: For this particular task i chose to use 3 different typefaces. I tried to choose fonts that were easy enough to read, but still eye catching. Throughout the album i have used a script font for my name which is close to something i got with an engraving on it when i was little. I have also used two different basic serif and san serif fonts.

Vector Future Poster Assessment

In Illustrator we were given an assessment to design a vector based poster that would describe where we would like to be in the future.

The guidelines for this assessment were quite flexible, the only requirements were that we had to have a vector image of ourselves, 3 hand drawn images using the pen tool and the text ' future' somewhere in your image. providing we had these 3 items we could design our poster however we pleased. 

The Following is my final product.

Every element within this poster stands for something important that i wish to have or do in my future.

I have carefully chosen various vector images to place into this poster such as the Eiffel tower, my Nikon camera, the city, the Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign logos that have been placed onto the shirt of the vector image of myself, the paintbrush and the swallow birds.

The 3 images that I have drawn with the pen tool are; the Nikon camera (placed on the top of the image of the city that is placed in my hand), the vector image of myself and the paintbrush (in front of the city in my hand.) The rest of the images in the poster I have used the live trace and paint options, the paintbrush and distort mesh. 

Wifi Logo Assignment

We were set a task in illustrator, where we had to separate into 3 separate groups and were asked to design individual logos for a name that we came up with for a free WI-FI networking system for Baylis street in Wagga.

As a class we came up with the name 'Freeload' and started our making our logos. We designed various logos and presented them to a teacher at TAFE who then gave us guidance to what he was aiming for in the logo. We then went back and adjusted our logos to his criticism and chose in our groups as to which 3 logos we would then present to a group of IT students that were creating the networking system. 

The following is my final logo.

Children's Book Assessment

The last few weeks in photoshop we have been working on, designing and creating our own children's story books. The requirements for this assessment were to create 5 completely original characters ad put them into 2 separate A3 spreads (so 4 pages of a 16 page book).
We then have been asked to upload the final products to our blogs.
The following is my Story.


Once there lived a starfish named Sammy, a jellyfish named Jack, and a fish named Frankie.
They were the best of friends and did everything together.
On the opposite side of town lived a small, lonely crab named Candice.
Sammy, jack and Frankie were very mean to Candice, they teased her and called her names.
One day Sammy, Jack and Frankie were swimming in the park when all of a sudden..
"WHY DO YOU THINK YOU CAN PICK ON CANDICE!" Bellowed a deep voice from within the
seaweed.
‘’Who was that?’’ asked Jack nervously.
‘’My name is Wally, Wally the whale and I have heard you three have been picking on Candice.’’
"I’m sorry, we didn’t know that we were hurting her’’ claimed Frankie.
"Well you are and I think that you all owe her an apology."
After swimming for a while they came across a sad little crab crying quietly by herself.
‘‘Candice what is wrong? We are all so sorry for being rude to you. Can you ever forgive us?’’
Asked Jack, Sammy and Frankie apologetically.
‘‘Well you did hurt me, I don’t like being called names’’ claimed Candice.
‘‘I know, we are all so sorry Candice!’’
After talking for a while, Candice finally agreed to forgive them and from that day on, they all
played happily together in the park.

Spreads