Project: Holycrapthiswilltakeawhile Day 6 Update 4

by nothingfortune Posted: Thursday, 1/26/2012

It’s been a little bit, school reared its head, had to deal with that. Still finding new tools, new techniques to use in the painting. I really need to just finish the background then go to town on the main portion of the painting but its really hard to NOT work on the main part of the painting. Sorry about the strange looking pic, its mainly a white and black work at the moment, so choosing either white or black to show my work is hard.

 

normandy

 

Iv’e also noticed a lot more spam as of late. So everyone, wave at the spam bots!

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Project: Holycrapthiswilltakeawhile Update 3: Day 3

by nothingfortune Posted: Thursday, 1/19/2012

Today I sucessfully sat down for a few hours and expiermented with various techniques to get it looking better than it was starting to look like. I decided that I need to do a base “color layer” and then build everything off of that layer, whither it be shading lighting or logos on the ship itself. This way the ship will seem more solid than it was looking.

Then I got bored/distracted and decided to try and tackle the stars once more. The stars that you see in the screen grab are just the biggest, brightest of them, there are another 3 layers underneath to try and portray the vastness of space. I can’t decided if I want to go for the planet in the background or a awesome nebula… Hmmm. Decisions

 

 

File Size is standing at a healthy 1.12gb! I’ll have to merge some layers I think. It’s starting to tax even my awesome 8gb of ram I have on this laptop

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Project: Holycrapthiswilltakeawhile Update 2: Day 2

by nothingfortune Posted: Wednesday, 1/18/2012

Today I was not able to get much done, well, at least not as much as I would have liked. I tinkered with a lot of the settings for the brush to try to get something that I liked. Bellow is the first day of actual painting. I’ve discovered that the difficulty isn’t so much in the painting, but in keeping the colors and technique consistant throughout the piece. It’s frustrating to have to go back through and repaint stuff because the color or tone is wayyy off. But it’s a start I guess. But, without further adu;

 

Oh! Forgot to mention!

File size: 723.9 mb

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Project: Holycrapthiswilltakeawhile Update 1: Day 1

by nothingfortune Posted: Monday, 1/16/2012

engines of normandyThere is what I have so far. Day 1 was mostly spent setting up shortcuts on my tablet, research and design decisions. I reached a few. I think I got the perspective down, although let me tell you getting a curve to well, curve into a vanishing point is rather difficult. But I did not start this project because it would be easy, I started it because I knew it was going to be hard. I discovered (I should have realized this a lot earlier) but I can customize the keys on my tablet a LOT more than I thought I could, so I started drawing, tweeked the settings, drew, tweeked, so on and so forth. I think I have found a pretty good setup now. I think I’m going to have a rather large planet in the background, that bleeds off the edge, with a moon behind that.

I have both photoshop and Corel paint but I decided to stick with photoshop because I have a LOT more experience in it than I do in Corel, although I’m fairly certain that Corel will be a much better application for projects such as this, I just don’t want to spend the time to learn it when I have my eyes set on this massive project of mine.

I’m probably going to work on actual school work tomorrow, depending on if stores are actually open or not.

File Size: 279.5mb

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Project: Holycrapthiswilltakeawhile has officially begun.

by nothingfortune Posted: Sunday, 1/15/2012

Due to the fact that I have recently played entirely too much Mass Effect lately as well as the fact that Mass Effect 3 is going to come out I have started a new project. While most of my more recent projects have been spray paintings, I decided to try my hand once more at digital paintings. My goal is to paint the SR2 Normandy, pictured bellow, over some grand planet or something. Details will follow as I come up with them.

My plan is to make this print ready and worthy, and mount and frame it once complete. So to start off the festivities, the beginnings of a planet!

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Magazine Spread Layout Practice

by nothingfortune Posted: Tuesday, 12/6/2011

For this project in Typography, we had to recreate from scratch a 2 page spread from a major magazine. For this I spent a lot of time at the local Hastings store looking at various magazines until I found a few that looked cool and that would challenge me. From there it was into Illustrator to make the major graphic elements. Once those were done I went into InDesign for the adding of the text. The main challenge I faced was getting the alignment right along with making everything flow correctly. I know a lot of people don’t consider typography but no one does until someone messes it up, which isn’t difficult at all. It is an invisible art. Sort of like roads. Yeah. Roads.

 

 

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New Font

by nothingfortune Posted: Tuesday, 12/6/2011

This project was similar to that of the blended typeface assignment from earlier in the year, but instead we started from the beginning. We were supposed to find inspiration from everyday life and transform it into a type face. My inspiration for my font was antique pistols such as the one bellow.

 

antique pistol
Using the grip for insipiration for the curves, I built the font from there, results as follows. In hindsight I wish I would have done capitals rather than lowercase, mainly because they would have looked better with the poster. I disovered that when designing a font face, it is a lot like building a house and living in it. Nothing is ever truly finished, there is ALWAYS improvements to be made. The challenge is getting it to the point where it is good enough and calling it quits.

(the poster says “Ideas can change the course of history” in German.

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Blended Typeface

by nothingfortune Posted: Saturday, 11/5/2011

For this assignment we were to take 2 different typefaces and blend them in a way that came out with a unified professional typeface. For this I choose a sans sarif font, Helvetica, and a sarif font, Baskerville. My main goal was to take the clean look of Helvetica and give it some variation. The two source files as well as the the results are bellow.

PS; I like how the gallery function is actually working with me now. haha.

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Typography Portrait

by nothingfortune Posted: Saturday, 11/5/2011

For this assignment my instructor told us to make a portrait of a famous person using only 35 characters of a single font. The goal is to make it appear like a portrait, yet preserve the font (in this case Garamond)

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Spray Painting Gilore

by nothingfortune Posted: Thursday, 11/3/2011

Over the summer I spent a lot of time spray painting. It helped with a whole bunch of things, from allowing me to burn ridiculous amounts of time, to practicing my typography skills, as well as learning how to develop ideas in a controlled manner from concept to application. Apologize in advance if the new gallery feature doesn’t work. Firefox users the images are there, you just have to click without being able to see the thumbnail. I don’t think anyone else is affected. Also, sorry about the delay in getting these up. Life kinda blindsided me. So with out further adu, I give to you…(I’m trying to get the gallery to work, but it’s being stubborn)

 


 

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