So here's the extent of today's photoshop fiddlings... a nice retro effect pop art styley image of... me. Vanity's a horrible thing.
I'm well aware this stuff I'm doing is FAR from groundbreaking, or original... but it's just me picking stuff up as I go along, learning, fiddling, experimenting. Cos as a designer who can design pretty well but has no training, what the fuck else can you do? Over the past week I've been trawling through random tutorials, learning how to do some stuff that may not seem essential, but in the long run, best to know some basics and stuff. Figuring out how to do pop art seemed a good idea to do, I'd forgotten how to do halftones, and now I know again! Ace. The newspapers were a last minute temporary addition, hopefully gonna build up a background with my own photos and use halftone again, then blend it all in, fiddle it about. And while I'm doing the retro thing, a few more neon colours and lightning bolts etc. might get chucked in. We'll see.
Cos that's the great thing about design, and art... it's never ending. Even when I see an image I've made and think, "Oh fuck, that looks awesome", I'll then go on to think, "but what if I did this...?". That way, I end up passing an hour just fiddling and tweaking an image, til I have a result that I'm happy with. And even then, I probably won't be happy. Sometimes, you just have to stop and walk away, which is what I did with the skull.
Also, the skull I posted the other day wasn't picked up from a tutorial, it was just done using skills I already knew, using the pen tool in illustrator, fiddling about with different art brushes then editing and piecing together a fill in photoshop. Came off better than I expected, and now it's my phone background, my mac background... nice.
Another day off work tomorrow, so I'm hoping to go heads down again, do some reading up on more tutorials, click a few buttons and see what I can knock up, as it were.
No idea if ANYONE at all is reading this, but it's good for me to just write and design and just keep doing stuff, to keep me entertained, busy and happy. I love the feeling when I've finished a piece of work, and I just wanna show it off to everyone. Even if no one does see this blog, I can still imagine that people are looking at it going "Awh that's fucking wicked".
I'll probably reinstate my twitter soon to promote this blog, and just microblog about the work I'm doing. I keep forgetting nobody's reading this and giving a shit either way.
Peace out.
Jack. x
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