Showing posts with label blur. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blur. Show all posts

Monday, March 2, 2009

Incoming!!! New Artwork

I have a lot of new stuff I've spit out since last time... I can't even show it all now... I'm saving some for next time!

First off... Fiery Collapse
This one is my first attempt at artwork using zoom and spin in (filter, blur) radial blur. It is almost a concept piece in that respect. I like it - to me it's matter approaching the event horizon of a black hole. Nobody knows what happens once it's beyond that line. Not even light can escape it, so once info or material goes in, nothing comes out - there's no way to know. As things are squished with near infinite force, the temperatures generated are ridiculous. That's why my colors of choice were red, yellow and white.

This one is called Vector Exit
I like this one probably the most out of the three. It's arrows and bubbles fleeing toward the horizon. Toward what? From what? that's for you to decide. It was all transform - perspective that did it - unfortunately I had to battle against quality loss.

It has almost a sci-fi feel to it - like it's some white room opening into outer space. Life is like that; you're sucked into the future whether you like it or not.

This is Positive Influx
I did this one similar to the first, but there was a lot more play to it. I added colors on a top color-mode layer with a soft low-opacity brush. It's the energy flowing through the electrons in an electric cord of some kind. It started as an attempt to make my own brushes, which had a give-a-mouse-a-cookie effect... one experiment led to another until I did a whole image. I originally hadn't planned on doing anything else today, what with the other two and all.

Like I said, more next time... That's Thursday, I think.

Sunday, October 12, 2008

An Apple A Day...

Today I made an apple in Photoshop. It looks delicious.
I learned how to do it through PhotoshopRoadmap.com's tutorial directory.

It uses a sphere for most of the tutorial, and then warps it at the end. It taught me to use path stroking for the stem, a very powerful technique.

It's not perfect, but the things I learned I wouldn't trade for anything.

I'll probably work on it more in the future, and try to make variations of it. The tutorial actually made a green one.

It took a few hours to do, but I was talking to friends on FaceBook for the first half of the job. I also stopped to eat something.

The background was nothing
complicated. Many of the elements were simple.

I learned a very important concept, though- if you make an abstract black or white shape and use a Gaussian blur on it, and then lower its layer opacity, it makes a shadow or highlight.

You can see the tutorial HERE, if you want.