Working on my Book Cover

I have added a red > blue gradient to cover the white of my cover template and added the pixel art image of me as a new layer

I have added my old style drawing to the back cover and scaled it down

I have added a photo of my guitar as a layer and erased around the image to remove the background

I have adjusted the color of the guitar layer by adjusting the Hue/Saturation, selective colour, the colour balance and contrast to give a more vibrant red colour 

I have scaled down the guitar layer and positioned it so that it's mainly on the front cover but slightly overlays to the back

I have cut out the shape of my wooden bat cutout and I am then going to adjust the colours and scale and move it

I have adjusted the selective colour and hue, then scaled the image down, flipped it horizontally and moved it

I have added 3 image scans of comic book covers. I added the 3 as seperate layers, used the perspective, rotate and skew tools to arrange the covers and then placed them on a single layer. I then used the lens blur tool to draw focus away from the cover art so that my art is still prominant but you can still see the comics. I also adjusted the opacity for this reason.

I have added 2 images from the internet of comic covers from stories I like, put moved, used the free transform tool to rotate and skew the images. put them on a separate layer and used a lens blur on the images.

I have added 2 pieces of text for the title and the author name using Chalkduster font and font 36 for the Title and 12 for the author name.

I have added the spine text and blurb text in the same font but 18 size.

This is my finished design

Developing my self portrait work. Pixel art style

I am going to try to produce a piece similar to Alejandro Rene Hernandez's work in the style of pixel art. I am using a photo of myself to work from.

I duplicated the layer and renamed it photo and added a transparent layer which I will paint on to and have started by selecting the background with the magic wand tool and painted the background on the transparent layer

I have added a grid, changed the settings to snap to and adjusted the size so that I can use the polygon select tool to select areas of my face and colour them in

I have completed the outline layer

I then added the white layer working with the same method

Continuing with this method I have gotten this far in my piece

I have completed my pixel art piece

Developing my Self Portrait work. Aging a photo

Aging a photo
to begin with I have scanned in my self portrait drawing

I then clicked Image > Adjustments > Black and White and made the image darker by reducing the red.

I then dragged a Brown paper texture I found on the internet into photoshop, scaled the image and then rasterized the smart object and renamed the layer Brown Paper

I have then Changed the blending mode of the drawing to Colour Burn and reduced the opacity.

I then dragged the brown paper layer beneath the drawing and selected an area of the brown paper using the magic wand tool to delete a section of the drawing layer

I then clicked Select > Colour Range on the Brown Paper layer, dragged the fuzziness to 50 and selected some of the layer.

I then deleted the selection from the Brown paper layer, used the inversed selection and used an transparent eraser on the remaining layer

Finally I used a texturizer filter on the image

Research of 6 different portrait artists

Raul Allen

http://theredlist.fr/wiki-2-343-918-225-239-view-comics-profile-allen-raul-2.html#photo

Raul Allen's style of art is Graphic Design Illustration in the form of comicbook and magazine art, in this piece portraits of Barack Obama and John Mccain. I am a fan of comicbook art, the paint styled texture and the flat colors which is why I chose this piece.

Kelsey Dake

http://theredlist.fr/wiki-2-343-918-225-233-view-rock-profile-dake-kelsy.html#photo

I like how this Graphic Design piece by Kelsey Dake incorporates a similar comicbook style through a flat untoned image and also how the piece looks hand drawn and is pure black and white. I also like how some typography was used in the piece since it helps give the piece a unique style.

Tom Hovey

http://theredlist.fr/wiki-2-343-918-225-233-view-rock-profile-hovey-tom.html#photo

I like the style Tom Hovey used in this piece in that it looks like it has a rough kind of texture as it looks like the image is stuck in from something like a magazine. I also like how the background is painted and the man is on a seperate layer. I also like the idea of the speech bubble and the handwritten style of writing in it.

Alejandro Rene Hernandez

http://theredlist.fr/wiki-2-343-918-225-817-view-pixel-profile-hernandez-rene.html#photo

This style of art by Ajejandro Rene Hernandez interested me because it uses pixels to create an image. I think I would be able to produce a similar piece using Photoshop.

ArnO

http://theredlist.fr/wiki-2-343-918-225-1202-view-almost-real-1-profile-arno.html#photo

What I like about this piece by ArnO is that the image almost looks real even though it's a digital image. The smooth detail and airbrush effect give away that the image isn't real however the impression is that it is.

Ingela Och Vi

http://theredlist.fr/wiki-2-343-918-225-816-view-paper-profile-och-vi-ingela.html#photo

This portrait piece by Ingela Och Vi is created using paper but what I like is that the impression given is 3D and layered.