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Brushes Portraits of my Grandparents
I was in Florida visiting my grandparents over the weekend, and I started playing with my newest iPhone app, Brushes, creating a picture of my sister singing karaoke. I showed my grandmother my little finger painting and she liked it so much she wanted me to do one of her and my grandfather.
Playing With the Brushes iPhone App
I have been looking at the Brushes iPhone app on and off since I got my iPhone more than a year ago. I’d seen some incredible images created with it, and I wanted to try it out, but it was pretty pricey for an app at $4.99, and I wasn’t sure if I’d really use [...]
How to Photoshop a ‘Pencil Sketch’ – Fast
Last week’s Photoshop class assignment was so simple in concept that I was amazed it counted for a full grade. Our assignment: Create a pencil sketch using a technique our teacher showed us in lecture (which I’ll share with you in a moment). To get the base, black-and-white sketch, or the funky colored-pencil looking sketch [...]
Photoshop Class: Creating a Magazine Cover
For this Photoshop class assignment, we had to create a magazine cover layout, trace the magazine’s title, include at least 4 images, a number of blending modes and text effects, and of course the regular color and levels corrections.
I originally wanted to use one of our travel photos for the magazine cover, but I just [...]
Illustrator Class: My Posterized Murray Poster
Our last Adobe Illustrator class assignment was creating a “posterized” poster — a stylized version of a photo that combines areas with similar tones to create a more graphic effect. We had to achieve the postrized look using the pen and pencil tool, and we could also use the live trace tool. We also had [...]
Free Download: The Owl Calendar 2010
Our final project for Design Fundamentals, other than our design journal, was a calendar. We needed to show a change over time or some sort of metamorphosis while also displaying the 2010 calendar.
I started sketching some cute, boxy little owls, and created a little love story between the two of them. I didn’t know how [...]
How to Win at Boggle: A Mind Map
This week’s class project was a lot more involved than past weeks’. We had to create an autobiographical infographic, and in doing so use the principles of design we’ve learned in class, including hierarchy, balance and unity.
I had a lot of different thoughts about what topic to choose: something travel related about the around-the-world trip, [...]
Playing with Figure/Ground Reversals and Repetition
Last night, my third design project was due, and it was a shape exercise where we played with a figure/ground reversal, which we then had to pattern.
We had to create a single panel with an axis of symmetry (mine goes horizontally), and on each side of the axis, the white and black areas were reversed, [...]
The Positive and Negative Space of a Big, Bold K
For project #2 in my class, we had to create a 3-panel project. The first panel was a 10-inch tall serif letter — I chose a K — arranged in a 6×9-inch panel. The panel #2 was an arrangement of the negative space from panel #1. Panel #3 was a combination of panels #1 and [...]
Order to Chaos in Lines
I’m currently taking a design fundamentals class at UCLA Extension, and today our first project was due. We had to show a progression from order to chaos, using only lines. I had this concept in my head from the start of intersecting lines on a diagonal that would bounce back at each other and slowly [...]
A Short Trip to Barcelona: Art, Architechture and Inspired Faux Poster Making
Once we were in London, we wanted to make our way over to Barcelona to visit Bernat and Miriam. We flew over on a Tuesday morning, and had to Leave by Thursday evening, but we made the most of our short trip.
Sitges
Once we got in, we took the train into the city since we were [...]
Weekly Reading: This Time Featuring a Monkey!
Well, it’s been another busy week, but I got to see a lot of people. The Tuesday night blogger meetup was nice, and today I went to the Social Media Cafe/Tuttle Club, where there was a nice, big group to chat with over croissants and coffee. I got to catch up with Mike, Darika, James, [...]
Britishism: Gutted
One of my favorite Britishisms is the term “gutted.” Basically, “I’m absolutely gutted” is just a really overdramatic way to say “I’m disappointed.” But it’s so much more graphic.
I always imagine entrails spilling out, or maybe an entire lack of a gut. And though the term seems quite dire, it’s usually used when a Brit [...]
Britishism: Bap
Well, I didn’t know what a bap was when I first heard the word, though it really hearkened back to a very awesomely bad movie, B.A.P.S (p.s. my illustration is off — for some reason, I thought there were 3 main characters, not 2 — that’s what I get for drawing before IMDb-ing). Turns out [...]
Britishism: Rocket vs. Rocket
I sort of forgot this one since I got used to everyone in Budapest calling arugula rocket. They didn’t understand what we didn’t get in the translation, of course. But I think rocket is a much more exciting and less pretentious name for the fancy lettuce.