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Combining Animals (Workshop #2)
Digital Painting
assignment: creating custom brushes to color and shade a drawing and using clipping masks to achieve clean lines.
365 Days of Design – Day 15
I really liked the way my last low poly art turned out but it was a little hard to make out what it was unless you saw the images I made it from. (Here’s the link to the post) This one took a lot longer because I spent more time around the edges of the image — more smaller triangles around the edge and bigger ones on the inside.
I started by grabbing a reference photo of a phoenix from google, then brought it into photoshop to pixelate it. I figured it would really help to determine where I should plop my triangles and save me some time with the colour pallete.
Bringing it into illustrator I realized it was a hell of a lot easier this time around. The pixelation I made in photoshop really saved me a lot of time guessing the shape colours of the triangles because all of the intersection points and colour pallet were already there.
The finished bird – Wasn’t exactly too happy with the range of colours so I adjusted it by overlaying a gradient on top of the image.
365 Days of Design – Day 12
– “interwine”
Playing around with masks and shadows to give the illusion of the text going underneath and overlapping each other. You’ll have to see the image at full resolution to see the shadows properly, looking back I probably should have extended the lengths of the shadow a bit more so that you could still see them at a distance. Masking in the shadows for the letter ‘R’ was a little harder to do than the rest, especially when trying to make the connection between the ‘E’; the rest was pretty easy but a still took a bit of time to do. Then at the very end I always like to give it a makeover with a bunch of bright vibrant colours :]
365 Days of Design – Day 9
Started off with a water color painted version of just a random blob of paint with some colors blending together, then the next version (posted in an earlier on my blog) I slipped in a face.
I came back to this picture because I really liked the colors and thought it would look interesting for some low poly art :) This type of work takes a bit of time to do but the results are definitely rewarding in the end. A lot of this type of art you’ll find would be done in 3D programs so you can get an all around view of the object but the same look can easily be achieved in Illustrator and Photoshop if you’re just looking for a still image. You can find other cool low poly art from the link below:
http://www.designyourway.net/drb/an-interesting-trend-low-poly-designs/
Here’s a progress shot:
Just made a few swatches and adjusted the colors a bit lighter or darker for each new triangle.
365 Days of Design – Day 8
Got the idea for this from the famous YouTubers, Rhett & Link. Their yo momma battle of compliments which you can see here. The original phrase they used was “Yo momma so intelligent she makes me feel inferior when I don’t use words good.” Just made me think of bad use of type when I first watched it.
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