Illustrator Induction: Marilyn Monroe

I have created this image by using adobe illustrator, using mostly the pen tool, the eyedropper tool, the ellipse tool and fill. I think the hardest bit was the eyes and the eyebrows as it was hard to get the placement right and I had to change the profile of the shape I created for the eyebrow and the eyelashes. I am pleased with the outcome as it does resemble the very iconic Marylin Monroe and it like the colours and the shadow I created under the chin.

Urban Typography

URBAN TYPOGRAPHY

our aim was to create a collaborative urban type installation, designed from location photography taken in huddersfield. we used all the letters in the alphabet with a materialistic theme and printed the pictures on acetate and placed them on the glass window to create a wall of type which will let light pass through to highlight the letters.

After Effects: first making of video

 

The window in the top right hand corner is where you import the images and the copyright free audio. We first imported the audio and then we dragged the audio down into the window at the bottom, we did this with the images after we made layers of colours, which would be replaced by the images or placed in between.

 

This is where you can play back your video you are creating and also you can use this buttons to repeat, forward and reverse the video. This allows you to analyse your on work while creating it.

Where the red line is you can move the icon at the top and press the asterisk to make a marker at the top help you know where the beat of the audio is and therefore line up the pictures with the beat so it flows better. You drag the purple bar to left or right to move when the pictures are to appear.

Tim Marrs

Tim Marrs is an excellent designer who uses layers and layers of different pictures, colours, symbols and give a unique textured look. there seems to be a colour scheme in each picture he creates and within this colour scheme there is one defining colour that makes the visual more striking.

typography

I love the typography visuals David Carson creates, he uses textures, letters and numbers mostly in black, white and red to really make his work stand out and look interesting. he can manipulate the shape of words to create different shapes and actually make it look like the type is moving.

Tim burton films are full of imagination and a dark and colourful theme.

Steps to create the "tree in a bulb" in Photoshop

 

Step 1: You have two separate pictures of a light bulb and a screw, first line the screw up with the light bulb, and create a layer mask of the screw layer and use the brush tool to rub out the unwanted lines from the picture of the screw inside the bulb. Then add a new layer, name it clean up and use the eraser to get rid of the black in the background. Create another layer and use the patch tool get rid of the metal rods in the light bulb and other marks.

 Step 2: Now you have an image of a stick and you need to add a mask layer to the stick layer and erase the background of the stick image. Also you have a picture of a tree top, add a mask layer to this and using the brush tool rub out the trunk and branches to leave the leaves, reposition the tree top so it looks like the stick is holding it up.

Step 3: Duplicate the tree top layer you've just done and resize and warp the image to make it fit the thin part of the light bulb to create a shadow shape and then add a layer mask to it and use the brush tool to erase the tree that's outside the light bulb still and to merge the tree into the background to create a shadow. Repeat this again on another duplicated layer of the tree but do it at the top of the light bulb. you can change the colour  of the tree by selecting its layer and changing its hue and saturation( command u).

Photoshop Induction

We produced this in our first Adobe creative suite lesson  on Adobe Photoshop.

Poet

...

And in these dark cells,

packed street after street,

souls live, hideous yet—

O disfigured, defaced,

with no trace of the beauty

men once held so light.

Can we think a few old cells

were left—we are left—

grains of honey,

old dust of stray pollen

dull on our torn wings,

we are left to recall the old streets?

               

Is our task the less sweet

that the larvae still sleep in their cells?

Or crawl out to attack our frail strength:

You are useless. We live.

We await great events.

We are spread through this earth.

We protect our strong race.

You are useless.

Your cell takes the place

Of our young future strength.

Though they sleep or wake to torment

and wish to displace our old cells—

thin rare gold—

that their larve grow fat—

is our task the less sweet?

Though we wander about,

find no honey of flowers in this waste,

is our task the less sweet—

who recall the old splendour,

await the new beauty of cities?

The city is peopled

With spirits, not ghosts, O my love:

Though they crowded between

And usurped the kiss of my mouth

their breath was your gift,

their beauty, your life.

 Poet H. D. 1886–1961

POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic

SCHOOL / PERIOD Imagist

Subjects Social Commentaries, Cities & Urban Life, Class

This poem has inspired me to think of how cities are different to each other and how this difference relates to the different types of people who live within each city and their influences to make the city different or more beautiful with structures of architecture and culture. But as time has passed the cities which were once great have become darkened and lost its beauty.

Signage

Signs are a big part of visual language within the city, they suggest directions, speed limits, warnings and instructions for road users. There are so many signs around the city, signs can be used as a whole project on its own but they can also contribute to idea of a journey throughout the city. You can also compare old signs to new signs and how they differ over time.