The Emerald City- Photoshop Experiment

My first try in photoshop- The Emerald City. I mostly used layers masks... a lot of layer masks.. to make the piece look whole. Just the girls form is made up out of at least 5 different pictures of people. I made all the different skin tones look similar with an Adjustment layer with a green Hue/Saturation.  Then I just the same thing with all the jewels. My favorite thing about this piece is definitely the cheeks, and the way the jewels are doing out of the cheeks. 

Give Me Space- Final Piece

After weeks of work, here is my typography poster final. It will be about 20x30 when it is fully printed. Based off of Star Wars and my own love of space, I tried to include everything from comets to craters. the more you look. the more detail you should see. The letters are layered with goodness knows how many layers of blur, making it look like a glow. I wanted it to look like neon tubes wrapped around the letters.  

4 More Types

4 Types

Experimenting with type to make the word visually look like what it means.

Fonts used:

Active- Ayuthaya (edited with roughen)

Color, Orientation, Location, Distortion, Background

Loud:Wide Latin

Size, Color, Location, Background, Style

Quiet: Century Gothic 

Size, Color, Location, Distortion, Background

Stable: Poplat STD Black 

Size, Color, Location, Orientation, Background, 

Final typeface

My final typeface which I called Artist Block. It was inspired my Tetris and old fashioned video games. Started with the original type that I posted a while back and added colored pixels. I defined the lines and turned the negative space into a dark gray.

Typeface

So far I've made three different types of fonts in three different styles. The first is a brush tool that i wanted to look like a Far East style. The theme i wanted for this type face was the Far East and old.
The second one I created with the pen tool. I wanted to make it look like it came out of a video game, so I added the dots. The theme I wanted for this one was blocky and linear. The final one was a font a freehanded with the calligraphy brush tool. I wanted it to look medieval and classic.

The Blonde Squad

A quick little side project that took two days. I used the grid and lined up dozens of screen shots. The body is made of one photo from a Marilyn Monroe picture. Her facial features are from a different photograph from the Big Sexy Hair campaign. And finally, her hair is from another photograph which was originally black and white and some pieces from the previous photo. Some pieces like her lips, nose, chin, and parts of her shoulders are from several different photographs that are not of Marilyn Monroe at all. The emphasis is most on her, but mostly her red lips. I left the background plain black because most of her original photos were taken with a plain background, and it contrasts her figure, which is mostly pale and white.