Tokyo no Jitensha...

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I apologize again for the lack in posts. I've been busy trying to catch up with school projects since I had taken some time off for my recent honeymoon to Japan. I thought I'd share my most recent Digital Arts project with you. This project was to work with Adobe Photoshop... we had to create a movie poster using PhotoShop exclusively. I decided to base my project on Tokyo Bikes. While I was in Tokyo, for some reason, I was obsessed with all the street bikes and bikers (you may have noticed this obsession with the countless amount of bike photos in my day by day Tokyo blog posts). It made me want to hop on a bike despite the fact that I haven't been on one in over 10 years... no joke! The two main images that make up my movie poster consist of two separate street photos I took in Japan. One was of a random biker on the street waiting for the red light to turn green... (check him out by clicking here!) The second main image I used was a long shutter photo I took of cars passing by on the streets of Shinjuku... (click here to see it). Once I extracted the biker, I was able to work him into the other image as the background, and after experimenting with some adjustment layers, blending modes and color corrections, everything started to come together. Overall, it was a very fun project to work on! Hope I get a good grade... and a new bike for Christmas... hahaha.. I kid, I kid!

Saint Milk...

... Meet Saint Milk... (Click on image to enlarge)

I turned in my final Illustrator project today for my Digital Arts class. The project was a character and scene creation using vector imagery in Adobe Illustrator. We had to write a brief scenario/story that creates a character and scene from our imagination... much like a children's book. The outcome of the project: to create a scene that was drawn solely in Illustrator. I decided to make a poem about my character as my overall story... here is the final result.

Art 112 - Project 1: ILLUSTRATOR

Character and Scene Creation using vector imagery in Adobe Illustrator

Character and Scene Creation:

Character: Saint Milk

Location: Dairyland

Personality: Happy, Holy, Caring, Loving, Compassionate, Wholesome, Pure, Saint

Synopsis:

Saint Milk is an Angel & Saint to Holy Cow (Creator of World). He was sent by Holy Cow to help create all things deliciously divine in a heavenly world known as "Dairyland".

Story:

In the beginning…

… Holy Cow said, "Let there be Milk,

So that all things may flourish with great taste and health".

And thus, Saint Milk, an angel who shined,

Was sent from above to make all things divine.

With his salubrious nature, so wholesome and pure,

He sought out to share it for all to endure.

He envisioned a tasty, delectable land,

Where homes made of cheeses in all shapes would stand.

Bushes of cream cakes lusciously grew,

While the gold skies were filled with yogurts that flew.

As the warmth of the Cinnamon Sun swirled up above,

Holy Cow and Saint Milk nourished Dairyland with love.

Fishy...

... another pen tool tracing exercise...

On a Vector High...

I have really been enjoying my Digital Arts class! It's an introductory course to Digital Arts, which covers Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Flash. We started class with Adobe Illustrator, and our first project is a character and scene creation using vector imagery in Adobe Illustrator. We have to write a brief scenario/story that creates a character and scene from our imagination... much like a children's book. The outcome of the project is to create a scene that is drawn solely in Illustrator. I worked really hard on my character and story, and decided to make a poem about my character as my overall story. We shared our stories one on one with our instructor yesterday, and I'm so happy to say that she was really pumped and excited about my story and character! She LOVED that I made a poem, and thought it was so cute... she kept giggling with enjoyment when I read it to her. Her words exactly... "This is going to be awesome!" That made me feel really good, and now I'm even more motivated than ever! Next step is to sketch the characters and objects, then after that, sketch the whole scene out to scan into Illustrator. The final project is due on October 4th, but I'll have to turn it in before I leave for Japan. I've been diligently practicing with the Adobe Illustrator pen tool... and I'm finally getting the hang of it... learning how it moves and curves... I feel like such a dork for being so excited about it, but I can't help it! Call me a dork all you want... I don't care! Haha. Anyway, here are some simple exercises I worked on in class. I hope no graphic designers are reading this, cause I know this is pre-school stuff for them... but I am new to this and have never used Adobe Illustrator before, so naturally, I am a pre-schooler at this stuff. Bear with me...

This was a pen tool exercise we did in class. We had to use the pen tool to trace the Apple Logo. Here's my results... it's not prefect, but not too bad either... for a beginner, that is. (Click image to enlarge)

Here's another exercise we did in class to create a three dimensional egg with shadows and slight gradients. How do you like my egg? (Click image to enlarge)

P.S. Sorry for the insanely bright colors... I was feeling super poppy yesterday...