ok ok last post of the day...

Here is another Dave Mckean piece of work I drew inspiration from... Actually I am just going to paste my compostition board I created to help me get inspired for this project.

A composition board is a very handy tool I always do in right before I start a new project. I feel that researching work and gathering ideas is always a good thing.  It helps you stay on track and makes you feel less like you have writers block.  Here is my composition board. Every picture on here is a Dave Mckean piece of work... None of this is my own work.

If you see closely you can even see where I typed my notes of what I wanted in my own Dave Mckean inspired work...

Check it out.

inspiration for my poster

I used Dave Mckean as inspiration for the poster. I took his warm colors his industrial structure and feel to make my montage. Other images he has done in comic books and such have lots of illegible text, piled on top of each other... all elements are dave mckean elements that I tried to
imitate... what do you think? did I succeed?

Now that photoshop class is over... well almost over

Today is the last day of the class and I have nothing to do but wait for the class to present all the photoshop montages. 

Luckily for me, I am way behind in my flash class and I need to play catch up before 6pm tonight.  Tonight we present our final projects in flash and I am about 50% done with my animation.

However, I have been looking around in my photoshop class and there seems to be many great montages. I cant wait to see them all!

Photoshop overall...

Photoshop has always been a weakness for me. I could never really grasp the tools and techniques. However, after being in this class, I feel I  have learned so much. I definitely have more to learn but I can now say that I am comfortable with this program.

Adobe Illustrator has always been my go-to program but now I am going to start doing my own work in photoshop.

The more I practice the more I will learn right? and the better I will become.

I am grateful for having this class and learning so much... =)

Final Montage

So here it is... my final montage for my photoshop class... The assignment was to read a story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez about a poor family that finds an old man in their back yard who has these
enormous wings that are kind of decaying...

They're not sure if its a fallen angel or just some freak of nature.

Here is my picture... What do you guys think?

just finished my final montage

So its finally done... after lots of hours, hard labor its done... It came out really well! I LOVE IT! it was very tedious at points but the hard work paid off...

I will have to paste the picture later as the file is currently almost a gig!

Making a face look old in photoshp

I took this tutorial from youtube.com on how to make a face look old in photoshop, considering my new montage is about an old man.

I want to take a picture of my little brother and make him look old. I've been dabbling on learning to do it myself but it is VERY difficult.  So I looked at tutorials....

This tutorial is very long and I dont really have lots of patience to LLLlllloooooooonnnnngggg tutorials..


If you feel there is a better one, please let me know...

Here is the tutorial, tell me what you think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD_BqknfhME