Astor Park Poster

Below is a image of a poster i designed for astor park i took a loud of images from 3 different methods of capture and put it all into one image:

This image was created on photoshop using different types of blending tools, i have manage to get a very good style of work using the blending tools and i feel i use them to great effect, i used about 7 different images to blend together , some of them large some small, all of the images are images of the park when we went to viset it , i feel doing this has helped to develop my skills on photoshop and my level of creativity using self taken imagry i feel my image really represents what astor park is.
I really enjoyed doping this image as it was great fun experimenting with the different images ot finaly come together with a great design, i am happy with my peice and i think it would fit well on a wall showing different images of astor park i would confidently have it on my wall at home as i feel it has a good street and funky look to it.doing this type of editing is what i enjoy the most and i enjoy spending time trying different effects and looks and colours.



Identity Poster

Last week we done a poster based on are identitys using typography and an image of ourselves, this is the final product of my image below:

In thsi image i found a picture of me and worked around it using typography, i furst used cutout filter to my picture to giv it a sort of graffiti on the wall type look then dwnloaded an image of a wall to put it on, i then filled the background with text with digets of my date of birth 071090, i then put in a bit of text sayin SHAKERZ which is my nickname and put that along the side and used a blendin tool to fit it in with the image, i then added my full name Jake Allington and put it dropping from my grip in my hands, using freeform tool, i then cut ouit a load of things about me for example son brother ect and cut them out and showved them all in the corner then using the free form tool i distorted it so it looked like it was flodding in from the corner of the image.
Over all i am very happy with this peice it is the second one i done as i lost my last 1 due to a loss in power on my computer which was a shame, i enjoyed making this peice and i feel i learnt alot about the efectiveness of typography on an image and i will be using alot of typography in the future.



3D

This week we have looked into 3d design on 3d max this secotion of the term we cover these four subjects to do with 3d design on 3d max:

TEXT

We were shown how to creat 3d text we did this by first clicking on the shapes tool and then selecting text we then clicked were we wanted the text and filled in the text box with the writing that we wanted to make 3d, we was also shown how to change the font, to make it go 3d we had to go onto modify then choose the option to extrude which made the writing 3d we could then pick how wide we wanted it.

TEXTURE

The way we was shown to change the texture of the peice was to go on rendering then material edit then compact materials, we then had to click on the colour option and click difuse then pick bitmap, you could then upload an image of a texture u have got from the internet and used that i found this facinating to use and i found it very life like when using it.

LIGHTING

For the lighting effects I found and clicked onto the lights button, then clicked target spot. I had to drag the lighting cone out from where the lighting was coming from and enlarge and position it untill the text i had produce had been lit to the way i wanted it to be lit.

EXPORT

The way we was shown how to export was the quick and easy way to do it , this was by cliking the kettle up the top to view are final productd then saving that image as a png format so that it wouldnt end up with that black background, we could then edit it all on photo shop.

PEICES

Below are some images of my final peices that i did on digital 3d max.

 In this peice you can use i used a golden texture for it i really like this peice andi am using it on my facebook website for the editing.

I really enjoyed using 3d max it is very useful and i know i will use it in the future for shure for some of my work i enjoyed creating new shapes and i feel i learn a great deal about 3d max and i cant wait to start doing larger products with this tool.

Today we has to design 4 shirt on the folowing subjects, astor park, identity, graffiti, typography, today i only managed to get 2 done which were astor park and identity below is ajn image of my astor park shirt.

What i did to do this one was get all the images of the graffiti i had and cut out the letters for astor and put them together in one big graffiti saying astor, i then took and image of a secutity notice i took a photo of and edited it so the cctv camera looked like a spray can and under it i changed the text from these premises are under constant servalance to these premises are under constant tagging,. this was a pretty symple peice, but when i went to astor park the first thing i notised was the graffiti, the image below is an exampkle of my second shirt design,

This is my design for identity, what i did was take a photo of me and using the blending tool i put it into the shirt as a sort of stencil way i then put some txt across me saying my nickname in graffiti writing, i then put my tag in the bottum right corner of the shirt to symbolise my sign so people know its my work, this peice was made using mainly the blending tool it is once again a very simple peice but i feel it would work really well as a tshirt, it is 3 mediams that represent who i am, you have a photo of me , text of my name, and my edit copyright tag so i feel this peice really sums up identity.

Banksy

Banksy is a artist from bristol, who does alot of street art aka graffiti, but he has taken it to such a level that it has become adored by many fans of his work evan celebritys, his work is all over the world from stencils to sculptures , he is really trying to get across a message and hes doing it in a form of art, today we watched a documentary on bansky , about a guy who films lots and lots of street artist and begins to film a documentary on it , he finaly works up the reputation to be phoned up by banksy to show him round LA to do work. most of banskys work has a statement to make and that si what i liek about his work, also u can look at one of his peices and you will know that it is his work. these are a few examples of his work .



These are jsut three examples of his work, from sculptured phone box which i think is a great way to illustrate how phones can be so frustraiting i think its great abstract art but is alvo very cleaver in the making, The stencil is very clever rather than throwing a petrol bomb he is throwing a boquet of flowers in a sort of to show peice rather than violence. the last 1 is a peice that is set up in bristol on a wall, its a figure of a man hangin from a window with a woman with her husband looking for the guy who is hanging from the window.

Typography

In this experiment tutorial, we took an image of our faces and edited it so that text was in the chape of the shadows and different tones of are faces, we did this by getting an image and by using the wand tool selecting different areas of are face using the magic wand tool, i then right click the are secelted and choose, make a work path tool then by selecting the text tool and clicking inside the selected area i can fill that area alone with text, i then did then with most of the sections of my image.

First we did some examples of how to use typography by folowing a line with text with different lines these are two examples below.

I found this very interesting to do and i feel thsi will become very handy tool for me to use in the future for projects, and designs that i do, as i am a huge fan of photoshop i feel i had a good base knowledge on this proces in order to really get it drilled into my head after we had this tutorial.

This is an image of my final text face oncei had done most of the areas with text as you can see it quite abstract and not obvious it is me but it is clear that it is in the shape and figure of a human face.

I am very happy with the final product it is a very good proces and effect to use , i feel i will be using this proces again the the future with peronal projects i do .

David Carson

David carson is a typography artist known famously for breaking the rules of graphic design, this is a couple of examples of his work below.

 

As you can see all of his art work is very abstract the text is almost unreadable and distorted which was his way of breaking the rules, david carson alone created or started the whole digital abstract movement, his work gives you alot more to look at and gives you more things to be intrested in, although his work is loved all over the world, i do not find his work very interesting, i feel no real effort has gon into it and that any old person could create his work, but as a fellow artist i have to respect his passion for the abstract movement and the guts he has to start this movement and it has worked out well for him and how work is loved world wide because of it. he uses lots of typography in his work but rather than making the text readable he distorts it which makes you try to look at it harder than you would with any other peice.

3 Methods Of Capture

The three different methods of capture i will be using are, photography, memory and writing, so iwill be takign photos, using my photographic memory to remember thingas about the park and also writin in a text format about what i can see explaining the different views and scenery.

We are doing this in the aster park.

Photography:

Photography is the art of taking photos ranging from digital imagry to film, using the light to project an image onto film , then you can develope the film into photos using a liquid. You can capture any still moment in time with just the click of a button.

Memory:

Memory is using your brain to remember images or scenery and then produce them in my own style and view, the positive thing with memory is only the best things will really stick in your mind, and when you see something you like you will remember it.

Writing: I will be writing down views and imagry that i can see explaining view in words rather than imagry, using this method gives the reader more chance to use there imagination about what you are viewing, it can leave more room for personal improvment, really looking into detail of what you see rather than just drawing it.