Unit 54: Digital Graphics for Print

For this lesson, I chose an image and created different effects to make the image look more interesting. I used the image tool bar to make adjustments such as; Levels, Invert, Black and White, Hue/ Saturation, Photo Filter ect...  I had to copy the orginal each time I wanted to create a new layer of colour. I also used the text tool to make the text in the corners to show what has been done.

After Photoshop

 I found an image of a pink elephant, then used the image tool again for the adjustments. I replaced the colour, and changed the elephant to purple.

Original

Photoshop: For this I used the clone tool to copy the original image. I cloned the part of the image I wanted and just added it to the image serval times. 

Original

This is my Avatar. I used many different skills to achieve this. I used the replace colour tool to created the blue colour as her skin. Then used the liquify tool to make her eyes just that little but bolder. To create the glow look I used the paint brush tool to make the white lined patterns I wanted and then used the blending tools to make it fade. With a different layer and the same tool I created little white dots to make them look like little stars. I used the clone stamp to create the background behind her. 

Original

After Photoshop: I was trying out the liquify tool to edit this image and used the clone stamp to create another boat in the background.

For this I made the image black and white,  and used the paint tool to create a colour of our choice to make the poster stand out more and eye catching.




Sarah J Coleman

Sarah J Coleman Graduated with a first class honours from Birmingham Institute of Art & Design. She has worked in many different places in her past such as,  the Royal Shakespeare Company as a props maker a Course Director of a Visual Communication HND at 25 and a visiting speaker and specialist tutor at assorted UK universities and colleges. Sarah Coleman has built a study in the house she lives and works in. She has been doing illustration for 20 years, has done 30 shows and 300 book covers and counting. 

Here are two of her images that she has created. The first image is part of a calendar she has created and the other is for an advert.



The colours in her illustrations are quite simple and dull. However it does work for the images as they don't need to be bold and in your face.  I think she uses these colours because she mostly designs things for books or covers. Depending on the topic she make her design eye catching not the colours.

 The text used in her images are always so fancy and girly. She mostly creates girly images in which the font and theme of her drawings fit perfectly well for what she is designing. The colours normally vary with the text but are still simple.

When I look at her images, the first thing I look at is the bold words that stand out, then I like to look at the detail around them words and how she has presented it. I feel all of her images are beautiful as she does a lot of work with the subject she has been given. 

Kate Moross- 10 Year Plan

Last lesson I created a Kate Moross inspired 10 year plan. For this lesson, I scanned it onto the computer and used photoshop to crop the image.

Favourite Inspiring artists

http://bmddesign.fr/

Emma Dibben

http://www.emmadibben.com/

I like Emma Dibben’s work, as it is all hand drawn it shows how talented she is. She is also amazing at painting it so it looks realistic. Emma Dibben managed to paint in all the details for the tree. I would say this is one of my favourites. This would influence me as it shows that anything is possible, and that many people are talented. I feel that this could also have an effect on people, as if there was a hidden meaning. 

Emma grew up in Sheffield, early on discovering a love of nature in the surrounding peak district. On graduating in 2004, with a First Class BA (Hons) Degree in illustration, Emma then moved to Bristol. Commissions soon followed and saw her creating images for prestigious clients including Waitrose, The Guardian and the BBC. 

Good Wives and Warriors

This piece is by Good Wives and Warriors. I am in love with this piece of work as it is so colourful and amazing. How they managed to put the main attracts of London into one picture and made it urban. They put their own twist to it with the crystal sky and with the speakers at the bottom. Becky Bolton and Louise Chappell (Good Wives and Warriors) created the partnership. Good Wives and Warriors made a hash tag trend  #iconiclondon. They created this in a shop window in front of the public for everyone to see. This has influenced me as it is urban and I really love the picture. All together I feel that this partnership as they are extremely talented and I would love to see more of their work. 

Becky Bolton and Louise Chappell have been working collaboratively as Good Wives and Warriors since 2007, soon after graduating from the Painting Department at The Glasgow School of Art. They divide their time between designing large-scale installations for fine art settings and undertaking design commissions for companies in the UK and abroad, including Absolut Vodka, Tiger Beer, Swarovski, Adidas, Chevrolet and Swatch. They have exhibited around the world, including shows in Berlin, Paris, Melbourne, Buenos Aires, San Francisco and Sao Paulo and have been featured in a number of publications and books including ICON Magazine, Wired Magazine and the Taschen books Illustration Now!3 and Portraits. They are currently based in London..

Tom Bagshaw

This piece of art is by Tom Bagshaw.

I really like this picture as this girl looks like a catwalk model, and I like what he did with her hair. He is really talented to be able to put the space effect in her hair. I love the fact that he even put little planets around her. This art piece and artist influence me as it is all done digitally. It’s amazing how he did it, and I would love to be able to create art pieces such as this on a computer.  

Tom Bagshaw works as a commercial illustrator under the moniker Mostlywanted and is represented by The Central Illustration Agency. His talents are sought after by clients in fashion, advertising, editorial and publishing, and include Saatchi & Saatchi, Sony, the BBC, The Daily Telegraph, Kraft, GQ, Future Publishing, Scholastic and Random House. For his personal work he has developed a highly rendered digital painting style through which he explores themes of fantasy, beauty and mysticism. While his work deals with imaginative content, it also aims for a strong level of realism in its presentation. Feminine beauty and portraiture play a large role in his work, but the women he depicts are never frail damsels in distress. More often than not they are strong, intriguing characters, with an air of mystery to them.

Kate Moross inspired final artwork

My finished bookmark

Industry Design Production Report – Self directed homework

Printers:

• In printing terms what is a bleed?

A bleed is the side part of a document that allows the printer a small amount of space to account for movement of the paper. The document colours can extend into the bleed area. After trimming, the bleed ensures that no unprinted edges appear in the final trimmed document.

• When sending your illustrator artwork to the printers you should embed or outline fonts for what reason?

• When sending a file to the printers what should your colour setting be? Why?

• What does CMYK stand for? What does RGB stand for?

Graphics

CMYK stands for cyan, magenta, yellow, and key or black and RGB stands for Red, Green and Blue.

• What is a serif font? Show examples.

In typography, a serif is a small line attached to the end of a stroke in a letter or symbol, such as when handwriting is separated into distinct units for a typewriter or typesetter. 

• What is a San serif font? Show examples.

In typography a sans-serif, sans serif, gothic, san serif or simply sans typeface is one that does not have the small projecting features called "serifs" at the end of strokes. The term comes from the French wordsans meaning "without". Sans-serif fonts tend to have less line width variation than serif fonts.

• Helvetica is the most widely used sans-serif typeface in the world it was developed in 1957 by..
Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger with input from Edouard Hoffmann.

• The following file formats are important within the graphics industry.

• The following format JPEG stand for ? What context would you use them?
Joint Photographic Experts Group, because that is the name of the committee that developed the format. JPEG is a compressed image file format. JPEG images are not limited to a certain amount of colour, like GIF images are. Therefore, the JPEG format is best for compressing photographic images. 

• What does PDF stand for? What context would you use them?
Portable Document Format is a file format that has captured all the elements of a printed document as an electronic image that you can view, navigate, print, or forward to someone else. PDF files are created using Adobe Acrobat , Acrobat Capture, or similar products. 

• What does GIF stand for? What context would you use them?
Graphics Interchange Format  is used for animations and they support transparency. Transparency allows you to place the gif over any colour background or even photos, and you won’t see a border or background in the image. All you will see is the icon.

.• What does EPS stand for? What context would you use them?
Encapsulated PostScript is a PostScript image file format that is compatible with PostScript printers and is often used for transferring files between various graphics applications. EPS files will print identically on all PostScript-compatible printers and will appear the same in all applications that can read the PostScript format.

• In print terms what is dpi? What is the minimum resolution to scan artwork for print?

• If producing a vector based logo for a client which Adobe program would you use and why? Write about some of the tools you have used so far?

• If you're improving the quality of an old, faded and damaged photograph. Which Adobe program would you use and why? Write about some of the tools you have used so far?

• If you are producing an 8 page magazine for an assignment which program would you use and why? Write about some of the tools you have used so far?

Self Direct Research:

What is your passion? -

Pugs

50 words of your passion-

Pugs: 

20 Images about your passion-

For my design I have chosen to create a Pug Case. By doing this I have drawn my own ideas and played around with them. I copied them into illustrator and edited it. I drew around the drawing to make it cartoonised and then filled in with the colours I felt fit. The copy and pasted it to create this image.