Today is the last day we had the chance to work on our very last project for this year.
Here's what I did in class today and I also used my free time to finish it~ (:
This year is also my teacher's last year teaching :'(
I'm gonna miss her ; w ;
I really had fun having her as my art teacher. I think she is a great teacher and she became a part of my life as a teacher and will be always remembered. Long before I have her as my art teacher, I didn't discover my skills and talent on drawing, painting, and digital art. I had no clue at all but now I've discovered it and I'll keep on creating art and learning new things.
And I decided with my partner, Valia (http://puentedesign.blogspot.ca/), are making a business card.
Here's my front page card design by me
The picture is owned by Love's Kitchen.
The work is still on progress.. My partner is doing the back page recipe design card.
Any comments are welcome :DD
Labels: Brenda Koch, digital imagery, himawaricreations
Last class' learning log: How to make a comic strip with Photoshop
I'd like to share with you on how to do it in my way..
Ingredients:
- Get the Comic Strip Template
- Brushes and Mixed brush tool
- Magic Wand or Quick Selection tool
- Text tool
- A tablet or a mouse
>First of all, you could use the magic wand or quick selection tool to select a panel that you're going to start with.
> And from there you could start sketch the structure of the panels by making the layouts. But before you start painting, make sure you fill the background panels with a base color.
> The next step is to start painting the sketches using brushes with your color choices. At this point, you might struggle on choosing the right color to create a smooth blended figures. Photoshop & Illustrator are good programs to help you with this. They provide excellent tools to work with and easy ways to manipulate pictures. I hope that you are having fun playing with the brushes (:
> In my case for painting the wolf, I used mixed brush tool to blend colors together in order to look furry. Add shadows and highlights (meaning there should be dark and light colors to contrast and to reveal the source of lighting in the picture)
> Refine the edges (you can use layer masking to do this) and try use the blending mode options (right-click mouse > blending mode > adjust anything that you want there)
~~~~ Initial process ~~~~~~~~~~~`
> Add text, dialogues, titles, etc using the text tool.
(Lame fonts? go to
www.dafont.com for free fonts) Do you know how to install new fonts into your computer?
How to install fonts on Windows, Mac and Linux
FYI everyone.. This is my past project for Japanese - I made this comic strip for the first time using the above method..
What do you think? It's not perfect and good but trying and exploring are the least I could do to help me improve, learn and gain more perspectives and ideas (:
Improvise, Improve, Innovate (:
Labels: comic strips, digital imagery, himawaricreations, how to, Learning logs
Hello Everyone! Today's learning log is going to be about :
Creating vector curves and paths in Photoshop with the Pen tool
I found this great tutorial on this particular topic on using the Pen tool in Photoshop..
Labels: himawaricreations, Learning logs, paths, photoshop, photoshop cafe, tutorial, vector curves
Cutting out photos with Photoshop from it's
background, with refine edge and Quick selection
I'm very sorry that I skipped the last learning log since I spent the whole class trying to find an interesting ideas and photoshop tutorials.
Therefore, for today's learning log, I'm going to share some easy and quick technique on how to cutting out photos with Photoshop from it's background, incorporating with refine edge and quick selection tool.
I learned this stuff for only 10 minutes from this tutorial given below
Source from : PhotoshopCAFE - Cutout + Refine Edge
Here's my finished work from this tutorial.. does this look realistic enough ?
Ingredients:
Images that I used for completing the work
Tbh with you all ... I used to cut out photos from a background using eraser tool and magic wand.. but it took thrice longer than using this method above.. I believe that this tutorial is very useful for you to do photo manipulation, collages, editing photos, and etc.
Happy Photoshopping!
Labels: digital imagery, himawaricreations, Learning logs
Hello everyone!
For today's learning log is about....
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This book is about an investigation that the Author did about the roots of innovation and useful strategies for creative breakthroughs.
My teacher read from page 83 "So part of the secret of hunch cultivation is simple: write everything down." (p.83) "Good ideas are not conjured out of thin air; they are built out of a collection of existing parts, the composition of which expands (and, occasionally, contracts) over time." (p.35) "Our thought shapes the spaces we inhabit, and our spaces return the favor." (p.17)
I learned that commonplace book is a way to compile knowledge and storing new innovations, just like a personal journal - which is similar to the learning logs that we do every class.
My question about what I've learned is : what is the root of innovation and how it changes through time?
The point of lesson is that good ideas are built out step by step and it expands over time without we noticing the changes.
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Labels: Commonplace books, digital imagery, himawaricreations, Learning logs
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| Can you see the difference from learning log #4? |
I was supposed to do learning log #6 last class but I used all of my class time to work on the picture and I didn't have time to do it at home either.
Last class I've decided not to use the background from learning log #5. So I painted a new background and it took me the whole class to do it. Btw, I didn't use tablet to paint for this picture.. I used mouse to do it.
I learned to choose the right color to blend in the feeling, atmosphere, and the wolf - even though I'm still lacking skills, I've tried and I feel satisfied and happy.
I found that digital painting is somewhat fun and I feel that I want to go further with it. Also, using mouse to paint digitally somewhat challenging to me. But thanks to photoshop and undo button, I could finish this picture (:
This is the completed digital painting that I have been worked on for the past 3 classes. What do you think ? ;D
Favorite this picture at deviantART
http://cloverxkaren.deviantart.com/art/Shiver-299999052Labels: digital art, digital imagery, himawaricreations, Karen, Learning logs, maggie stiefvater, sam roth, shiver, wolf
