Posts Tagged ‘photoshop’

Well here is the final result, the video and image of the Loch Ness Monster assignment for school.

Unfortunately I published the video in a format that requires you to watch it fullscreen to get the dimension straight… Its a bit squashed flat this way. Here it is anyway.

If you prefer to see it the way it should be seen: Download it here.

Oh and an older assignment I also wanted to post here: The Meaning of My Name.

Click the image to go to my Flickr.com photostream where you can see comments about the photo.

Ok, so this is a piece of something cool I’m working on. I dont know whats going on with me but Im having a really creative wave lately. I got home from work and actually wanted to figure out more about the widgets here, and to continue creating something new for www.christiaanleever.com which is now completely removed I wanted to do something different than the photo background, allthough I also like that, but I was thinking along the lines of vector art. First I looked up some free vector art, but then I thought, why not just make it myself. So googled “how to make vector art” and found a nice tutorial that explained some of the basics since I never used the pen tool in PS

Anyway, eventually when I noticed how easy that was and how many new options that gave me for doing cool stuff in PS, I saw another tutorial on that persons site, and they explained how to turn a pencil/paper sketch into a more computer rendered look. Much use of the smudge tool basically. So thats what Ive been doing. I was thinking, OH! Lets make a drawing of the Loch Ness monster since I have that as a theme for Jan van Delfts assignment. I just drew a random head, with lots of teeth, and quickly took a bad photo of it with too much flash. Opened it in PS, and started trying it out. In the beginning I was rushing since I just wanted to test and see how it would work, and as I kept going I kept getting better and things started looking really 3D! Very cool how you can use it to create shadows, folds and veins and bumps etc… So ive been experimenting a bit and on a part of my monster I drew this alienlike thing. I like it.

Next up: Continue Loch Ness, and do some vector art for website background? Or see how I want to do something with a photo background. Might also be cool.