Photoshop and Illustration Tutorials
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Using the skew tool
Fantasy Sunset
Double Exposure
Halftones
Colour Replacement tool
A distorted VHS Effect
Filters in Photoshop
3-Dimensional Pixel Stretch Effect
Creating a marbled texture
Circular Pixel Stretch Effect
Pixel Sorting Effect
Making Animated GIFs
Illustration: Garden Tutorial
The Theme Panic
Experimental Work
First I started exploring what I can do to interpret the theme Panic. I followed a few of the tutorials assigned for us and created an original piece.
My Influential Digital Artist
While building this work, I spotted a digital artist in which helped me come up with these manipulations. Although, his works were more advanced and professional, but it helped me construct these following works. He is named to be Jonathan Foerster, I designer that expresses his installations through his present mood. He liked to dazzle the crowd with his attentive detail and surrealistic compositions. Mainly he sketches the ideas that roam around in his head, letting his hand do all the talking. It takes him months to finish one illustration and with each one, it narrates a different story. As through time he will encounter new experiences and he exhibits them through his designs.
Due to his structure and particular effects, it influenced me to create something similar yet using my face. As he evoked his artworks through his emotions, this theme 'Panic', I sought to illustrate it through scary, stressed images of me. Including his use of intense colours, it gave me a plan of how I wanted my compositions to be.
Jonathan Foerstar Works
The following four slides, I used real life photos of fireworks held during a feast. While also using my face.
In these, I searched for online images of fogs or steams and used my own face to incorporate the expression of panic. The steam ranging from the head is a translation of when someone is passing from a panic attack. The mind would start to malfunction, it wont be able to handle any baggages and it would end up clashing. More so, I tried to model an intense expression to make the observer understand the feeling.
As I liked this effect, I decided to search on a tutorial of how to create your own smoke and I ended with these results.
In this one, I worked in reverse, I first created the smoke and then added the portrait.
While I was seeing the results, I thought that they appeared to dull and decided to add a little more texture, by placing an images of clouds. I tried to manipulate it as much as possible not to render them to visible. Smoke was another alternative way to portray the conjunction the mind passes within a panic. The addition of the clouds was to try and mimic an explosion when the strike arrives at its full potential.
Planning for Final
(Resolved Work)
I had created this beforehand and I edit it with more effect to present it for the final piece. I chose the other because it was more expressive and vibrant than this one. This time the clouds came out illustrating rays of lightning, which made it more quiver with panic.
The Final design for Panic.
