New Technique: Layer Options

Technique:

Purpose: Changes a layer in severe ways to apply a type of color to an image.

Options:

• Normal:
• Dissolve:

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• Darken:   

• Multiply: Turns the layer into a transparent layer, and applies that layer to the image. The end result is the layer will apply a kind of texture to an image like flames. (see Image)

• Color Burn:
• Linear Burn:
• Darker Color:

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• Lighten:
• Screen:
• Color Dodge:
• Linear Dodge:
• Lighter Color

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Overlay:

New Technique: Transforming with the warp tool

Technique:

1. Select an area with the lasso
2. Cntrl - T to transform
3. Right click in the transform area and select an option.

There are several useful options within that transform menu. For example:

•  Rotate
• Perspective
• Warp
• Distort

As you can see in the above I took how I look in Digital Illustration class (it's an 8am class) and used it to deform my face into something even more humorously bad.  I 'warped' my lip, 'rotated' my whole face, 'distorted' my eye, and did a little 'perspective' to enlarge the top of my head and shrink the lower part of my head so it looks like I'm slightly leaning forward.


Note: The cross hair is the point that the image can be rotated around. so the cross hair can be moved and the image rotated around that point.

Assignment: Play around with Color - Mitt Needs a Poster

Assignment: Play around with colors on a pre-existing picture.

I noticed a lot of other people were pulling random images of interesting animals off the net as we worked in class, and I kinda wanted to do something different and a bit useful. I follow Mitt Romney and figured he needed some type of poster design. Who knows, maybe they might pick up the finished project, and I've have a country of liberals attempting to pick apart all my flaws? While not entirely complete, this is what I've come up with so far.

I'm undecided on the text. Should it be SOLVE, FIX, (or some variation, ie: solver, solved, fixer?)  or something else?

Anyrate.. here it is a previous version.

Illustration Assignment: Dune Bookcover cont

Intro to Illustration Assignment: DUNE book cover.

So far, I've finished up the three options and gotten the votes from my class. I thought I'd present them here before we do one final change up considering they are due this week. These three I've narrowed down from almost 25 thumbnails.

So the three so far: Skull in the Sand

Dune Footprints:

Paul's Moment:

Assignment: Copy a Master - Frank Frazetta

Assignmet: This is the copying a Master in color with texture and stroke as best I can.

I've spent quite a bit of time on this, and painted until my contacts dried out and my finger cramped so much I couldn't use the stylus anymore. Ugh. I really enjoyed the work though and so I want to be great. I could work on this for quite a long time. And I did. The finished result is a the bottom.

Techniques used:

This was a bit difficult as it's an "Oil Lift off" painting. Doing it digitally, I decided to use layers to my advantage. What took me hours to figure out, is that the top layer should be my black instead of the bottom as on previous paintings. Putting the black on top and then using a slightly translucent eraser tool I customized for the job, to erase down to layers to the correct area colors gave me that oil lift off feel.

So I have in layers:
1. Black
2. Green/Blue
3. Red
4. Yellow
5. White

I still feel like I could work some more on it, but as I've heard in the art world, the image is done 20 minutes before it's due.

Original:

And now the Final image:

To prep I did a value study and a pre-critiqued image. Which are also below if you want to see the process.

Assignment: Our next assignment will be to copy one of the create masters. This is similar to the Vitruvian man copy assignment, but now with the experience I've had painting, I'm supposed to be able to mimic as much of the original artists as I can.

Since I'm feeling a bit cocky, and entirely insane, I've chosen Frank Frazetta. One of the most influential people on the SciFi and Fantasy genre. While I don't particulary lean toward his style, (I'm more of a Brom, Jock, Karl Kopinsky, Paul Dainton fan myself) it doesn't get more 'master' for the world of geek than the 'original' Frank. That said, that guy REALLY loved his wife. If you look closely almost 90% of the women



The problem is I'm having trouble deciding which of his pieces to do. I can't really show TOO much boob as I'm hoping to display this in a relatively family involved environment, but I also want to capture him as best I can with out going too complicated and beyond my ability. As it is, I'll likely be streching here.

I've narrowed it down to three options (.. okay five):

New Technique: Changing Lighting, and Selective Color

New Technique:  Changing the Lighting

Hotkey: Cntrl - L

This tool can be used to make the lights lighter, and the darks darker. It gives a graph of where the selection falls in the lighting category.

This can be done in a layer, so the best way to change an area is to cut it out with the lasso tool, and paste it on another layer, then mess with the lighting.


New Technique: Selective Color:

Layer - > Adjustments -> Selective Color

Hotkey: Cntrl - U

Much like the light tool, this tool can be used to change the individual colors in an area. So a selection can be made more red, or more blue. Very useful for fine tweaking an image.

New Technique: Mixer Brush (How to get an oil paint effect)

Technique:

Hold down the paint brush symbol (black arrow at the bottom) for the option to change to the mixer brush.

Mixer brush options: at the top of the screen are a few options to change the bush too: Dry, very wet; clear brush, load brush.

Mixer will only mix with colors on the current layer, unless 'sample all layers' box is checked. This is a bad idea. Keep it on the current layer.

A few things: The mixer brush actually 'runs' out of paint, as the red mark on the right shows. You can actually not load your brush with anything and just mix. (Two box options at the top)

Note: Personal brushes can be loaded into the mixer tool.