Final For Graphic Design 1

The picture above is my final for graphic design one. The objective was to turn art into graphic design. The piece of art I choose is the one to the left of the soldiers raising the flag. In order to turn this piece of art into graphic design it would have to be understood, send the same message to everyone, and motivate. The way interpreted this piece of art was people moving forward. With all the soldiers leaning forward I  tried to make it seem like the past was gloomy with the clouds and the future after moving forward was happy with the flower graphics. I think I made this design understandable and motivational. The first thing I did was cut out the soldiers and then I made a reflection of them. After that I looked up urban art style tutorials to make it look interesting and that directed me to the website qbrushes.com where I download 3 different brush sets that I used to create some design. After that I outlined the flag to make it look like it was glowing and added text. The design choices where made as I went along. I would use random brushes in different places until I saw something I liked.

Realistic Head Using Photoshop

 This project took me quite a long time to do. It consisted of many tutorial videos from lynda.com. The first thing that I did was watch each of the tutorials and recreate them into parts that I could use on my final picture. To the left there are two of those examples. After that I took a photo of myself to base the shape of the head and hairstyle on. So after that I traced the head shape and created the hair. The hair consisted of 5 layers just in itself and each hair stroke was individually created using the brush tool. After the hair I created the eye and eyebrow. If you click on the smaller picture of the eye you can see that there is a lot of detail in it but when I shrunk it to put it on the final image some of the detail is not visible anymore. Much time was put into using the burn tool to create realistic shadows also. After that was the easiest part of this project, the mouth. All i did was make lips and add a fiber effect to it. That made it look like real lips and then I made some shadows with the burn tool. After that I made the nose. The nose is very interesting as well. It consists of no shapes only shadows made with the selection tool. After the nose was finished a few minor details such as the little shadow under the lips and the shadows in-between the nose and lips. I think in all the picture came out very realistic and the final outcome came out pretty good.

The tutorial series can be view here: http://www.lynda.com/Illustrator-CS5-tutorials/Bert-Monroy-The-Making-of-Times-Square-The-People/77845-2.html?srchtrk=index%3A1%0Alinktypeid%3A2%0Aq%3Athe%20people%0Apage%3A1%0As%3Arelevance%0Asa%3Atrue%0Aproducttypeid%3A2
The psd can be downloaded here: http://www.mediafire.com/?i1cfjomatqbss6q
The picture of myself I based it off could be seen here: http://www.mediafire.com/?i1cfjomatqbss6q

Big Head Project

This is the big head project I did for graphic design 1. The first thing I did was find a few pictures of my friends playing lacrosse. The link for the website that I found these photos can be seen below. After I had my pictures I cut out each of their heads and posted them on separate layers. Then I cut out the bodies and posted them smaller on separate layers. After that I touched up some of the edges with the eraser tool. After that I got a picture of a field, however the only one I could find that was big enough was indoors. To fix that I cut out just the field part and made it a layer. Then I brought in a picture of a forest and blurred it to try to make it a little more realistic. Next I got a picture of a new net and brought it into the picture as well. 

Link for photos: http://web.me.com/jimking/sports/lacrosse/11_lacrosse/11_lacrosse.index.html

Link for tutorial: http://10steps.sg/tutorials/photoshop/creating-funny-big-head-characters-in-photoshop/