Ai-ART120

my favorite fonts

2010-04-01T01:05:00.000-07:00

Fonts

2009-12-11T11:06:00.000-08:00

Here are Fonts I made for the CD cover.
The title is Sexy Girl sang by Namie Amuro.
This song is glamorous and girlish, but dancey song.
This is an assignment from ART 224.

Tutorials

2009-06-11T21:50:00.000-07:00

Creating a Spy Fly Photo Manipulation

Super Fast - Speed Lighting Effect

Making Composites with Octoberfest Glassware

Create a Magic Crystal Ball

Create Your Own Gothic Looking Card Deck

How to Design a Classic Heraldic Figure

How to Create a Classic Vector Painting with Watercolor Washes and Line Art

Create a Milk Bottle with a Funny Cow Label

Create a 60’s Psychedelic Style Concert Poster

Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop

Create Cool Watercolor Effects in Photoshop

Creating a Cool Brushed Metal Surface in Photoshop

Photoshop Button Maker

How to Create a Hellacious Flaming Skull in Photoshop

Wolves Digital Painting Screencast by Jonathan Woodward

How to Use Depth of Field to Create Portraits with Blown-Out Backgrounds

Final Project

2009-06-11T20:55:00.000-07:00

This is my final project...

This is my box that has all images I designed.

As I said in last class, I chose a box instead of making a book because my image is a sandal, so it would be good idea to choose a box for my images, too. In my imagination, from a box, you can look at many shapes or types of pictures but all of them are created by a image. I thought it is like an astonished box.

This is inside of the box. I have 37 images.

I enjoyed doing this project. I feel I learned a lot through this project. Now I know how to use Photoshop a lot more than 3 month ago. Things that I did in this project was all new to me; designing many kinds of images baced on a image that I chose, going to Kinko to print out my images, and making my own book(box) for my image. So, some of the process has issues, and I stroggled with them. But I had a lot of fun with my project. Also, Through this project, I made some great classmates who can support each other and give each other many great advices.

More Images

2009-05-26T01:39:00.000-07:00

Images

2009-05-21T07:19:00.001-07:00

The Original Image

Images

Tutorials

2009-05-19T06:49:00.000-07:00

Selection in Photoshop

Masks

I learned more about how to do masks.

Plastic Jelly Styles

Quick ans Effective Facial Photo Retouching

Images

2009-05-18T03:32:00.001-07:00

Art Building Proposal

2009-05-14T09:19:00.000-07:00

Art Building Proposal #1

I took some of my classmates' ideas, and I decided to make negative space by putting the background's color orange red. I think it turn out better than the first one.
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Art Building Proposal #2

This image was the original pattern. This is one of the traditional Japanese pattern...

I really liked this pattern, so I added the light blue color.
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Art Building Proposal #3

The first image that I used was this...

And then, it turned out the one I have above, Flat design: The Green Leaves.

After I got some comments from my classmates, I took some of my classmates' advice, and I repaint the colors, which is this...

and when I attached to the building, it turned out like this...

This is what I chose for the final art building proposal...

I liked this building more than the new building that I repainted. This one looks more bright, and colors and design are balanced well compared to the another building.
Therefore, I chose this design for my final art building proposal.

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Art Building Proposal #4

Process of designing Art building

2009-05-12T07:03:00.000-07:00

The Art Building

My Process...

These are some of my ideas.

This is what i made, carp. I wanted to use carp because I think this is something different and i think nice to use negative spaces to show carp.

This is a maple leaf. i want to use some pattern using this.

My Idea 1

This is my idea using carp. It may be hard to tell, but i made carp in different size to show the rhythm. I haven't decide what color I want for the background...

My Idea 2

I thought it would be nice to have cherry blossom picture since we already have many cherry blossom in here, Oregon.

My Idea 3

I think I like this picture more than the other.

My Idea 4

I thought this is cool because using one piece of cherry blossom, it creates like a background using three different colors. I like the colors that were used.

My Idea 5

This is what I designed using a piece of male leaf. I used colors to show the three different colors that maple leaves have.

My Idea6

This is what I designed based on Japanese traditional patterns. I chose this color because green is good for our eyes, so I thought it would be nice to make the Art Building green. Many student use computer for their work, so it wold be nice to have green color for student to rest their eyes by looking at the building.

My Idea 7

I design this based on big waves. I like this pattern and colors.

2009-05-04T23:24:00.000-07:00

Photoshop's Pen Tool: The Comprehensive Guide

Convert Point Tool

Pathfinder Tools

I leaned how to use pen tool using Photoshop.

2009-05-03T22:40:00.000-07:00

A Comprehensive Introduction to Photoshop Selection Techniques

Garbage Masks

I learned about Garbage mask. I learned to get the hand shape, it is better to use pen tool.

Tutorials

2009-05-01T11:48:00.000-07:00

Valentines Day - Photoshop Style

Super Cute Easter Wallpaper Illustration Tutorial

Illustrate a Traffic Cone Icon in Photoshop

Create a Stylize d Semi-Realistic Wine Glass

How to Create a Colorful Retro Style TV

Tutorials

2009-04-27T23:50:00.000-07:00

Advanced Glow Effects

Make a Fairy-Tale Inspired Magical Hand Shaped Vine

Create a Vibrant Digital Collage Mixing Buildings and Vector Shapes onPaper

Create an Inspirational Vector Political Poster

Create a Nice Water Ripple Effect in Illustrator

Creating Fading Light Vectors in Fireworks

Create an iPhone Style Vector Phone illustration.

Logo (IBM)

2009-04-26T22:09:00.000-07:00

I arranged the color.

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This is my final logo.
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This is a Original IBM logo.

"Paul Rand's trademark for International Business Machines (1956) was developed from an infrequently used typeface called City Medium, designed by Georg Tromp in 1930. This is a geometrically constructed slab-serif typeface designed along similar lines as the geometric sans serif styles. Redesigned into the IBM corporate logo, a powerful and unique alphabet image emerged, for the slab serifs and square negative spaces in the B lent a unity and uniqueness. In the 1970s, Rand updated the logo by stripping it to unify the three forms and evoke scan lines on video terminals. Wliot Noyes, IBM's consulting design director during the late 1950s wrote that the IBM design program sought 'to express the extremely advanced and up-to-date nature of its products. To this end we are not looking for a theme but for a consistency of design quality which will in effect become a kind of a theme, but a very flexible one'." (Famous Brands Glossary Logo Design History)

Final Postcard

2009-04-26T22:02:00.000-07:00

Tutorials

2009-04-21T06:33:00.000-07:00

How to Turn Glasses into a Great Geek Icon

How to Create a Magic Wand Icon

Creating an Old-Collage Effect Poster

Applying a Realistic Tattoo

Create a Spectacular Flaming Meteor Effect on Text

Using Light and Shade to Bring Text to Life

I learned about Create a 3D Push Pin and a Paper Note in Illustrator.

Postcard

2009-04-21T05:47:00.000-07:00

This is my final postcard.
This project was really fun, although it was hard because I'm not use to use illustrator.
I designed a door for the front side and fangs for the back side because I wanted to give an imagination of when you open the door (which is the front side), Fangs are waiting for you (which is the back side of the card). I thought this idea is similar to Mcfetridge's idea. Some of his design with doors continues with the front of a door or the back of the door. Also, I tried to use two colors, red and white, because this is also Mcfetridge's style. He usually use two colors and use negative space.

This is another postcard that I made.
I also use his idea of using two colors and negative space.
I put a whale for contrast because this is more balanced between the front and back side of a card. Moreover, to make this card more balanced, a front side is light blue for the background and white for the background on back side. I chose to use these letters because most of font that Mcfetridge use are very simple font. This is why I chose to use these letters.

Process of designing postcard

2009-04-16T04:01:00.000-07:00

Research

2009-04-14T01:45:00.000-07:00

I decided to do Geoff McFetridge.
Here are some of his work...

I think basically his works are using illustration, and he makes use of the form of both negative space and positive space. Moreover, he basically uses color define using two colors.

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This is my process of design

I try to figure out what his design style is from research.
I want to design using negative space like Mcfetridge does, and I want to use a color define using two colors (I don't know what color I'm going to use yet...).

Final Patterns

2009-04-14T00:34:00.000-07:00

Pattern designing was fun to do as a project. It was first time using Illustrator to design pattern. I enjoyed myself designing patterns. At the same time, it was really hard to figure out what and how i want to do to design patterns. Although, it was great to have time to see what and how my classmate design patterns.

1. Final Pattern

My first pattern is this. I used a letter V for this. For this design, I tried to use negative space, spaces figures, and figure ground. Especially, I wanted to use the negative space nicer and a little bit complicated. I wanted to make a rhythm in my pattern so, there are thinner lines and thicker lines.

2. Final Pattern

I used V for this pattern. I know this is pretty simple and easier to recognized that this is V, but I still like this pattern a lot, so I decided to post this pattern. These are made by same font, but different sizes, but I think it is balanced.

3. Final Pattern

This is designed by a letter O. First, when I was imaging this is like flowers.But, many classmates told me that this looks like a symbol of Olympic, since then it looks like a Olympic one. I tried not to pile Os together because I thought it would be boring if I piled Os together. By making some space between Os, this has more interests, like you might be able to see another small flower that has four petal inside of flowers. I like this pattern.

4. Final Pattern

This is a letter V and I use this letter with Vivaldi Italic. On flicker, I got a lot of good advices from my classmate, so I was trying to improve my first project, and this is the result. I wanted to make use of the form of the circle in a negative space. I tried to make this design look like there are more circles in bigger circles. Moreover, as some of my classmates told me, the first design make people's eyes busy and confuse because the design was to small. So, I make Vs bigger than the first one.

5. Final Pattern

For this pattern, I used K. Using two Ks putting together I tried to make a diamond using negative space. Moreover, by putting two round part together, the negative space can show you sharper diamond, too. I thought it is interesting to be able to show you the repetition of circle and diamond through positive and negative spaces.

6. Final Pattern

For this pattern, I used &.
For this one, I wanted to use a bold letter.
I also wanted to be this pattern flowing this time.
It came out like a throwing knife or knife in the mixer.

7. Final Pattern

This time, I tried using colors with a letter V.
For this, I aimed to design a pattern using color define.
I used green and yellow for this one because the back ground is white, so i wanted to use one with lighter color and the other color with darker but similar and much with other colors. Moreover, I wanted to make this design fluffy and looks like a chain.

Adobe live docs

2009-04-09T00:42:00.000-07:00

The beginning of the day that I started to take Art 120, I have no ideas how to use illustrator. However, as I take this course, I started to learn more of how to use illustrator in class and through adobe live docs. Adobe live docs are very good resources to learn about Illustrator CS3. When you click this site (www.adobe.com/go/learn_videotutorials), it shows all kinds of adobe workshop by category. The video explain about Illustrator well from basic skills to advanced skills, so it was easier to understand. It was very helpful. Also, Adobe live docs save some times because each sections are very short, so if I don’t know about something, I can always visit this site and learn about what I don’t know. I will use the skills I earned from this site for my project more and I will use this site to gain more skills or use this site as a resource from now on.

Labus

2009-04-08T23:37:00.000-07:00

This artist is Labus. I like his work where his work is detailed and had a three dimensional effects. I also like how he uses lines on the right side. especially the white lines have more impact than others. also, the vertical line with a thick shadow also has a impact and it also looks like that the line makes the three dimension. It looks like the leaf is floating a little bit. It looks like the leaves have a dynamic impact. I would like to know why he chose to design this.

Simona Pfreundner

2009-04-08T23:35:00.000-07:00

This artist is Simona Pfreundner. This artist works on printing, packaging, and illustrations. I like this artist’s work created two different effects which are one with ice cubes and the other one with flames for absolute vodka. I think they are interesting that I imaged that the one with ice cubes has cool and plain taste, but the other one with flames has hot and dry tastes. It also shows that these two pictures are angel and devil. I can see that pretty easily. I would like to know why this artist chose to design vodka with ice cubes and flames, why not other subject. Are there any meaning of why this artist decided to create with ice cube and flames?

Caio Call

2009-04-08T23:33:00.000-07:00

This artist name is Caio Call. He is a web designer. Things that I like about his work are very colorful and dynamic. I like that he designs looks like the buildings explode. Also, on the sky there are unique designs looks like big bubbles. The buildings have a rhythm I think that is very nice. I really like how he designed the road because the road is not just a regular road. It has a texture looks like it was made out of Vinyl, and is a colorful.

Nik Ainley

2009-04-08T23:30:00.000-07:00

This artist is Nik Ainley. He is a UK based illustrator who works on personal and commissioned work. I really like how his work is very detailed. For example, the numbers 101, he puts all the details on the number so that it looks like you can see through the back of the numbers. Moreover, I like how he put the color tone differences from the bottom to top, from darker to lighter. Moreover, I also like leaves he uses. Leaves’ color is silver, so it looks like real silver, and that makes it gorgeous. I have questions to him why he uses 101 on his work; are there any meanings to use 101 on his work? Could the letters be more three-dimensional?

Yiying Lu

2009-04-08T23:18:00.000-07:00

This is an artist, Yiying Lu, I like. Most of her designs are very clean and simple lined, but each object is very detailed. I like that this looks simple, but easy to recognize what they are. Moreover, I like her work is unique and Asian styled. Also, color variation is very nice. I like how she uses colors. Most of her work uses three colors. It looks like she uses light, medium, and heavy color.

Assignment #1

2009-04-02T00:10:00.000-07:00

1. I do not have much computer experiences. I have had used some blog sites. I have decorated some of my pictures using paint. I only have used windows. I have never used apple.

2. What I’m excited about are that the fact that I can learn how to use illustrator and perhaps other program. Also, this class seems very fun, so I’m excited about having fun in this class.

3. What are my favorite books and magazines are instyle, people, and vivi (the Japanese fashion magazine) the books I read was notebook. It was good book.

4. My favorite websites are: Facebook, Hulu, yaplog.jp (the nail art site), MSN, and Yahoo