Here, finally, is the final set of pictures that are in my Digital Design book. The first photo is the cover of the book. It's inspired by Oz and the yellow brick road. I went with the title "Force of Nature" because the theme that goes through all the works is nature and the future. All the works inside are inspired by holograms, high-tech computers and crisp lines. Then, I incorporated nature into the works, both human nature (the need for beauty, overthinking, love etc.) and nature in the physical world (rain, starlight, and so on).
Page 1: Patterns
Inspired by textures found in nature, the beauty humans can see in nature, and the complexity of the internet. Everything in the web is connected in some way. I hand made each pattern, and layered them to make dots look like sand, and C's to look like wood grain., and so on. I connected it all together with varying line thicknesses. The background are birds in flight with a doppler effect patter I made.
Page 2: Gradients
I purposely left out nature in this piece. In Romantic literature, a lack of nature symbolizes confusion and the loss of goodness. The human nature in this piece is overthinking, symbolized in the static. I drew the "Golden Ratio" face with a pen tool, and added complex patterns that had a gradient to make it more intense and confusing. I'm an artist, and my mind is always working on the next project, so I added in the paint strokes to put myself more in the piece.
Page 3: Words
This one was really easy to make. When people have bad days, all that seems to be around you is hate ( the rain is actually all Yo Mama jokes, nothing REALLY mean). The umbrella is also all words. I layered words over and over again until it was all black, and then added the comforting words on top in white. The hologram boy ( there's the futuristic part ) says "Good Day" layered over and over again.
Page 4: Lines
Everything I made using only the line tool. To make the buildings I made really thick large lines in black, and the lights are small white lines. The sound waves are just white lines that I altered with the wrinkle tool. I wanted these lines to look like the city is alive with noise, even at night. The background are triangles I made, the wrinkles, puckered, and roughened them until almost everything was blacked out. I used a similar process for the stars. I hand drew 9 sided shapes, and puckered them until I was happy with the shape. I made a thick, gray version, then layered the thin white ones on top. The stars are dimmer than the rest of the whites on the page- the real nature pales to the humans.
I will be uploading some pictures of the 3-D version of the book soon. :)
