illustrator rough sketch

Posted on February 26, 2019 by wussdwimp

This is a simple sketch of my logo that will represent the themes of my website.

Illustrator tutorial

Posted on February 22, 2019 by wussdwimp

The Final Product

Posted on February 15, 2019 by wussdwimp

The final draft was remade to tell the story about my interests and how they relate to the creative aspect of me, creativity. The first time I attempted to tell about the story through a single image, it was too simple, boring, and didn’t have a lot of much design put it. The rough draft looked like it was slapped together with a bunch of images in a boring background. An overhaul was definitely needed and I managed to put it together to tell my story on the web better.

I started off by working on the brain. I had this idea of taking words written on paper and put the letters across the parts of the brain as if it was inscribed. I decided a new photo of a journal written novel can help matters as it wasn’t on a slant, and it was much clearer. Unfortunately, I spent six hours trying to figure out how I can make it work, using various tools like wand, quick select, crop, and so forth, it didn’t work the way I wanted it to be. So, I grab a portion of it with quick select and put it over the brain and turned the opacity down.

The next bit was adding in some other images. I decided to bring in images like thought bubbles and a better x-box controller. I selected them out of the backgrounds from the original pictures and put the x-box controller on the thought bubble. Then, I decided to add in a second thought bubble to put in a third and new image to display my interest, a picture of computer programing.

I took the computer programing and quick selected it to get it only to have the black screen with the codes on it. Then, I used the crop tool to make it small enough to fit in the cloud and make it easy to read.

I decided it was once and for all to get rid of the black screen. I decided to copy the color of the black lines on the brain and put it in for paint bucket to make the background and the brain the same.

This is how I fixed my project, using the comments and suggestion and comments made from my peers and the tip from one of the instructors in the class.

The mind

Posted on February 8, 2019 by wussdwimp

I used several techniques to complete the following image that represents the topic of my blog. I chose three topics to use for my project; an image of a x-box 360 controller that was found on a creative commons source, a picture of a journal written in a fictional novel format, and a cartoonish picture of a human brain. All three of these pictures were found on a website with a creative commons source called Flickr and I’ve carefully arranged and found a way to put it together for this collage.

So, the first part I worked with was the brain part. The image at first was a white brain in a white background. It occurred that I should probably change the color in order to give it some focus as the other two images, the controller and the writing notepad, have more detail and color than the other. There were many attempts to turn the brain into pink, such as using a layer mask and changing it’s color. However, the layer mask could barely display a change of color. So, I decided to pain over the white part of the brain carefully in pink. Then, I finished it off by filling the white background of the image into black.

The next part was kind of simple. I took the images of the controller and the notepad and moved it ontop of the brain. Then, I decreased the two images down as the brain took half of the screen. I realized from there I could create a picture that tells a good idea of my mind thinking of two of my favorite hobbies, gaming and writing. So, I decided to finish it off by creating the image of the mind having two thought bubbles by using two ellipse tools to present those thought bubbles. And that’s how I have created my rough draft of my collage.