This is a poster I was playing around with. Its not an official tour poster, but I thought the  image would be a opposition to the tone of the band. All in all I'm really pleased with the image and the type.

before

after....

I just changed a few things...personally I hate it when photo's are touched up...if someone has a blemish or pimple then well...thats how they woke up that morning...its them...anyway...I just made a few "improvements" see if you can tell!

Monet "the Church at Varengeville" 1882

 hint: the top ones my interpretation...

just making brushes in photoshop...please dont judge...

The image at the right was another Image I pulled from my handy facebook. I was basically using the image to practice using the pen tool and and the cut and paste feature. I dropped the photo in into photoshop and adjusted the lighting using the dodge tool. I darkened the image on the farther right with the burn tool to see the differences in lighting. I cut out the image, opened a new document in photoshop and dropped the image to the left into it. From there I just kind of messed with the lighting a little more and then figure out how to create a transparent layer. I then started scribbling with a brush tool.

I went to my facebook and pulled an image of me in a stairwell. The image was crooked so I put it in photoshop and put a box around the image, free transformed it and made it straight. After this I had to fix the four corners so I used the cloning tool to attempt to make all corners correct...I kind of failed...anyway. I went back online and looked for pictures of wrestlers being interviewed, Why? I dont know. I ended up choosing a picture of Larry king. I opened a new document and put ol larry in it. I used the pen tool to cut around larry and I selected the line? I think thats what I did anyway. And I cut him out. I flipped him horizontally so he would face me in the new picture. After I did that, I put larry in and changed the image size so her would kind of match up. That didnt work out either. I got frustrated and Left to go get pizza.

This will be the blog I use for my intro to computer graphics class. While I'm in this class I hope to further my learning of various digital tools in order to...um...open up more options for my...um personal work....does that sound ok...I'm horrible with speaking....

I basically want to keep up with the digital age and I feel that using the computer as a tool for art making is essential in order to compete with others in the art world. I'm really interested in design as a philosophy in a sense that I'm curious to understand how people react to the various principles of art. How does a person react to a certain line if its placed in front of a certain color? What type of reaction will I get when I mix this type of text with a certain image and then adjust the opacity of the image? I'm very much intimidated and interested by design for the reason that there are infinite things a person can do with design.

I found this magazine on the ground a few days ago and it got me really excited about design.

http://www.printmag.com/

This website was featured in an article in the above mentioned publication. Again really cool stuff.
http://www.kinetic.com.sg/main.htm

This is a website for the artist Andy Dixon. He does a wide variety of visual art using various media.
http://www.thechemistrydesigns.com/

Chris Ware's illustrations and design will eat your soul and make you quit art school....
http://www.acmenoveltyarchive.org/category.php?cat=7

I like this guys band and his visuals...
www.jacobbannon.com/

fun stuff....
http://burlesquedesign.com/

I'm tired of writing descriptions...
http://deadartspublishing.com/