The topic for illustration friday this week was racing. I first looked up a Lamborghini LP640 and put it into photoshop and trimmed away the unneeded areas of the photo. Next, I went and found a picture of a Bugatti Veyron. I used the same process as the Lamborghini to eliminate the unnecessary space and cropping out just the car. I than had to transform the image and turn the car around so it would fit the picture. Next, I found a picture of a raceway with an appropriate turn going to the right the way the cars would be turning. I then moved that image of the raceway to the back, behind the two cars. I turned both cars the way of the turn and positioned them with one car in front of the other. I finally, used the blur tool and blurred the back end of each car. This was to show the illusion of the cars moving at a high rate of speed.
I did Spooky from Illustration friday.com. When I first thought of spooky, I thought of fire and particular fonts. Knowing this, I wrote spooky in a "creepy" font. I then inserted a fire picture and arranged it so that it was color burned into the picture. Then to give it a unique affect, I overlaid the font.Then finally, I found a picture of an explosion, and used affects to give it a halo image. By adding the affects, some of the picture became black and white, and some became colored.
For my blog post, I did the Illustration Friday topic, Transportation. In order to be unique, I used a rocket ship because it's not every day transportation. For the sun. I made a circle and colored it yellow and used radial blur to make it look like a distant sun glowing. The rocket ship was basic shapes and was also given some blur to make it show that it is moving at a high rate of speed. i decided just for a a better effect, I would add the word transportation in a unique attracting font.
This week, I did the Illustration Friday topic, Beneath. For a simple idea, I thought of eyes popping out of the sewer. The buildings are simplistic, yet get the point across, still giving the picture and animation, cartoon feel. I used basic geometric shapes to build up the environment around the sewer and eyes. To assure that the viewer understands the scenery, I wrote sewer works on the lid of the sewer. The Yellow rectangles are a curb on the side of the street. The white stripes show road markings to more explain the scene shown in the animation.
I decided to do the illustration Friday topic: Old Fashioned. So I decided to make a cowboy to show the old western days. I chose a cowboy hat off the internet and used the paint brush and pen tool to trace it. I free handed the face and facial hair with the paint brush. Then to make the body I free handed the body using the paint brush. Then I raced the body and colored it different so it appears as a shirt. Then I created the arms and copy and pasted one arm and turned to appear as another arm. Then for the sleeves I did the same process as the body. Then I added shoes and pants and mirrored them as I did the rest of the body. The black is meant to show wind and a ground that the cowboy is standing on.
My idea was to take an everyday picture and create it and turn it into a combined futuristic and reality photo. I took a picture of New York's skyline and and erased the background that was originally on the photo. I then put a background of a space photo, as the night sky. With the same idea, I cut out 2 types of spaceships to put in the sky. I made some bigger and some smaller to show distance. I put a picture of the sun to create an illusion of a comet. I put a few explosions in the sky as well to show a "battle scene".
For this illustration, I decided to take hands but make a full size rocket ship to show the creativity. I put the moon and rocket ship but to mix it up added the hands holding the rocket ship. The moon and stars give the impression of being really big wide open area, but once the hands are added the viewer is made to think and consider the drawing for more then what they actually see. It causes them to think and imagine what it could be rather then what is drawn on the paper.
