album cover

My final album cover, I changed it from my old initial idea as I found this idea more  interesting
I kept with the theme of time as the band asked me to by turning the eye into a clock, this didnt take too long I simply pasted a photo of a clock face over the eye and used the multiply layer effect to make it transparent. I kept with the polaroid theme of my initial idea and added a pattern over the photo breaking it up into pieces.
I added colour fills to the different segments apart from the main segment.
I am quite pleased with the end result but I think the clock eye could be improved as it isn't very visable from a distance.

final fashion shoot edits

These are the final edited shots for the t-shirt designs I used the same depth for field effect and colour fill effects that I had used in my rough edits, the two larger images are my favourites due to the poses and the effects I used seemed to work really well on them

A couple T-shirt edits

These were my first attempts at editing some of the t-shirt photos.
The idea to crop the images down came from imagining that the t-shirts themselves were on sale and that these would be the thumbnails that consumers could click on to buy them.
the process was extremely quick and simple I used the levels tool to fiddle with the colour levels until I was happy, I then duplicated the layer and used Gaussian blur on the duplicate layer then using a soft eraser took away some of the blur around the focused area to add depth to field effect, I then added a colour fill layer to the image, using a different colour to every photo and then using an overlay layer added the band logo, the overlay meant that the band logo could be seen but would not cover up any of the photo underneath.
I was pleased with the final images and may even use them for my final piece.

work based learning initial designs

These are some of the initial Ideas for my blog and t-shirt designs.
I had researched other band album cover and have been heavily influenced by the Polaroid effect and I am going to try this effect out during the process of editing photo's for my own album cover.
I decided to try something new for my t-shirt designs, while researching t-shirt designs I noticed that most band t-shirts were just the band's logo and in some cases album art printed on the front. I intend to print
the bands initials on the pocket on the chest of the t-shirt and then print the full band logo on the back of the t-shirt as shown in these sketches.

Brothers Grimm final cover

This is my final cover for the Brothers Grimm fairy tales book.
I decided to spread out the trees in the background more and added mushrooms and giant dice to make
the forest seem more enchanted and weird but at the same time keep the creepy ambiance that I intended.
I also moved the wolf silhouette to the back cover to make the image a double page spread.

I had trouble on placing the text on the template I decided on placing the text on a burnt paper texture using the dodge tool and soft eraser to create the effect, I think it turned out rather well.

just some character design

Nothing too interesting just working on some drawing techniques and styles, I still need to work on anatomy a bit. I am starting to enjoy adding detail more and more I had fun playing with the patterns on the swords hilt and facial expressions.