building proposals, part duo!

After much pulling of the hair, and cursing at my computer, i broke down....literally. unwilling to give up, i searched for and found assistance with the purchase of the Adobe "Bible", then moved on with finishing the remaining building prop. for this assignment.

this concept is pretty cool. Vector vines smothering 3D Dots.





i really enjoyed 'playing' w/ the psu logo. One sample image of the fun is apparent directly below here. unfortunatley, even though i love the end pattern design, it looks pretty gross when applied to the psu building.







And finally, the striped building. I was sure that i needed to try a design that 'popped'. with the stripes varying weights and trying to apply bright colors for this one, I think it looks... noticable now.

WHTF?

I cant remember the site that I found this on, but I think you'll love the honesty. Aaron, with his down-to-earth character, is one hell of an inspiration!

Art Biulding Assignment

Here is my Art Building designs. Right now, they are not complete. I have been struggling to get a good grasp on the techniques of using Photoshop. But here they are anyways...


This was my PSU logo pattern idea adheared to one of the building images. I like it a lot. Although it totally looks like crap after butchering it in photoshop.






And the pattern

For everyone that didnt get a chance to see my Postcard design. Here it is....

As far as my process goes and how I feel overall about the assignment-look at earlier blog posts- is that the process is an awesome tool. But, unfortunately that doesnt really show. I am extremely disappointed with my end design. But that is why I am in the GD program, to learn and practice and I know my designs will improve.

Week of tut's

Okay, I need to let out a little steam...

...I am having an extremely hard time keeping up with everything!!! Almost sure that I'm the only one struggling too :-( or so it seems from reading everyone's blog's. Seems like if its not one thing...its another. Now my sons school is shut down for at least a week because of a case of the Swine Flu! Which scares me, because my family and I, have all been sick for weeks.
God I hope there is some relief in sight.
K, now I feel a little better. Now on with the blog...
For this weeks tut's I chose to work on refining my pen tool skills. So they will all be related to using the pen tool.

1st one gave me a great run down of what the pen tool can do.

2nd one had all the definitions layed out for me. Never really knew what some of those symbols meant. Now I know, - (delete), +(add), ^(converts)which ultimately switchs anchor between a smooth and a corner point.

3rd one made the pen tool look like a blast to use.
Right along with the 4th one, which made the pen tool totally fun, instead of frustrating, to use.

And the 5th Showing the how to's of handles and more in depth variations on what could be done with the pen tool.

Assignment 2- Postcard

Okay...so here's one idea

that I came up with from my process....

....And here's the other one.

Oh My, that is totally NOT how it is supposed to look, I will attempt to fix this. In the mean time..I apologize ;-(

p.s....I loved the feedback from everyone who commented. Great solution ideas from everyone as to what was working and what wasn't for the designs! Much appreciated!

ooh ya more

The jump off- I created a new template from the image of the logo..

Then, with advise from Gloria, I reduced the
opacity of the image template to about 15% or so...in order to SEE what the heck I'm doing!
(thanx Gloria!!)

Here, attempting to get the hang of it...I'll keep trying[process03]

A little problem, with the top of the A, not sure what happened. Evey time I grab the line and attempt to delete, slice, or erase that center line, it winds up deleting the entire thing. trying..[process04]

whatever?! Moving on....about to begin on the G.[process05]

Okay, all done except for that little quirk in the A! Any suggestions?[process06]