Category: Computer-generated

  • Today, I learned how to use the perspective grid. As you can see, I still haven’t mastered the customizable swatch skill, but I like the surreality of the end result. I realize in the future, I should expand the shapes in the grids and walls before slapping them into perspective. I used a drawing from…

  • I just made this banana in Adobe Illustrator (CS5.1) using the gradient mesh tool. I love technology. Adobe-day I learned how to make pattern swatches (amazing!). This is intellectual-yoks wall paper.  

  •   I redesigned the front cover because I reread the assignment guidelines and and some requirements were absent. Which was good, because I didn’t really like the front cover design. It wasn’t as slick as the back cover (which I kept). As per the assignment, I put it in a jewel case and boy, does it…

  • During last week’s illustrator class, we played with type. Here’s my CD cover assignment: This is Laura Marling’s debut album, Alas, I Cannot Swim.  

  • Credit to Alan Shapiro for this image that I will transform in Illustrator. And God for making beautiful birds. Adobe Illustrator class’ next assignment –color– Step one: Create line drawing the old fashioned way (with a Sharpie). Step Two and a Billion after that: Create layer with the drawing and lock it. Over it, use…

  • By using Adobe Photoshop to clean up the scan of a handrawn Mr. Yoks, (make it pure black and white, refine the edges a bit) and running Adobe Illustrator CS5.1’s livetrace feature, taking that and setting (and locking) that as a guide for the pen tool, I created this super crisp drawing. I am constantly…

  • This is my first assignment for my Adobe Illustrator Class. It was critiqued in class today. Some peeps really liked the vertical craters. I told the class my shpeal about how I created the background by making lots of triangles and the “draw inside” option for the moon, and spaceship. This was a fun project…

  • I think every time I play with illustrator– so many effects!– I will post them. It’s amazing what I consider visually pleasing. Perhaps my narcissicism is kicking in (everything I do is beautiful).