Book Project (complete set)

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. :)