I have made a new graphic piece. Please gaze upon it as if it were you're unborn child. Now, I don't claim to be a graphic genius - I know this piece here isn't exactly amazingly original and innovative. We have deffinately seen things much like this before, but I did it anyway. I guess I just wanted to see if I could. It turned out exactly how I wanted it to, so I am very pleased, which is why I'm posting it. A group of forum buddies and I are doing a little competition by where we have to design album covers and such. So I made it look very album cover... ish. Hence the speakers and my singing idol, etc. Anyway, I hope I have given a twinkle of visual enjoyment to a very very small percentage of the population.
MIGHT I ADD: Yesterday, I went to see the Vanity Fair Portraits exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. Normally, I wouldn't be seen in this gallery. For one thing, it's a fucking rip-off. An exhibition costs £8 WITH a student discount. How pathetic. For another, it's the kind of gallery that people go to when they are on a 'Family Outing'. It's full of old people and screaming children. Also, the exhibitions there aren't my kind of thing (the Photographic Portrait Prize being an exception - it was amazing). However, despite all this, I felt I just had to go to see the Vanity Fair portraits. For the following reasons: High-fashion fascinates me, I love portraiture, and being obsessed with film, to see extremely talented actors and the like depicted in such aesthetically interesting ways is an over-whelming joy for me. If you live in London I highly recommend going to see this exhibition. If you want to see the photographic portrait prize, you are too late I'm afraid...
I have a feeling that I'll be buying an issue of Vanity Fair some time soon.
20 February 2008
This Is Loud
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Ooh, vectory x]
I like vector art. Did you make that on Photoshop? Because tell me, how exactly do you go about making vector art?
And is that Mutya? I think it is. I like Mutya too.
What a mix.
Fuck yes it's Mutya. My living idol.
Vector art... no it's not. You can't do vectors on Photoshop, but you can do things that look like vector's. If you want to deal with real graphic design stuff, you need Illustrator. I've got it but have slight trouble getting my head around it. I'll need a friend to help a bit.
What I did in this case was quite simple... I just applied a 'torn paper' filter and set each layer style of multiply. Multiply makes every colour disappear except the black. I use that technique when I don't want to spend too long on a piece (and obviously when I want a piece to look like that one...)
Why, you...you labeller, you!
Same. Sometimes I think maybe a cocktail party or something would be fun, y'know, not the same old takeaway at a friend's house scenario xD
Ha ha.
Ah, I see, I see.
Yeah, I can't understand Illustrator - my mum has to use it for graphic design type stuff and she can't understand it, so she has to ask me for help, which is fun, seeing as I know Photoshop, but not Illustrator so much xD
Thank you mucho for the tips though =]
Ha ha, yes, I've been very busy xD
It was a great distraction from homework.
Sadly, that means more for tomorrow O_o
Yes, well, everything's good right now, so, touch wood [although there's a lack of wood around me and I'm not getting up to touch the door] it'll stay like that =]
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