Thursday 28 February 2013

Wings

I'm doing next try on Illustration Friday with the topic "Wings".
I found it is kind of interesting, and the first thought come to my mind was a butterfly. I really like a butterfly with a nice shape and nice color as well.
The following is some butterflies I found on the internet.

The_Butterfly_Effect_by_Photo_shop_wizard butterfly_tattoo
It looks really cool with the awesome effect. And I was trying to do something like that.

First, I draw a vector butterfly using Illustrator.
butterfly 1
Furthermore, I placed it as a smart object in Photoshop. I used some cool effects like outer glow, some blending option effects to make a butterfly more stand out.
Screen Shot 2013-02-28 at 6.10.32 AM
The next thing is I created the light background using the brush tool and some Free transform and changed the color using Hue/ Saturation to make some lines become obvious.
 Screen Shot 2013-02-28 at 6.14.56 AM

 I repeated this step by duplicating it. The result is I got more lighting lines. I also changed the color as well. And some of that line got more and more standing out. Screen Shot 2013-02-28 at 6.19.45 AM

Then, I drag a butterfly that I added effects on it into my background and changed the display mode to screen.
Screen Shot 2013-02-28 at 6.22.16 AM


























Lastly, I used the brush tool to create some smoke effects to make it like an abstract background.
 Screen Shot 2013-02-28 at 6.47.50 AM

Sunday 3 February 2013

Ocean

Hi, the topic from Illustration Friday is "Ocean". Here are some references I found for this topic.

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These are the thumbnails from the illustration Friday website with the topic "Ocean"

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The first thing came into my mind when I thought about "Ocean" is the sea, so I drew the sea with dolphins jumping as well hot air balloon to make the sea more interesting.
Also, on my second thumbnail I want to draw the waves with the bottle on the sea.

P/S: I played the apps call "wechat" recently and I like it very much. On the apps we can pick a bottle to make a new friend, so that idea came up to my mind:)





And I created the other thumbnail for "Ocean" topic. I found that much more easier to describe "Ocean" is underwater. So, I chose this one to go with. I just did a rough sketch for that.

ocean 3

For my final design, I did stuffs on Photoshop.

First, I used gradient tool to create the underwater scene. Also, I found the gravel image and put it in the ocean bottom. Then, to obtain the water-like texture I applied Glass Filter and created some "dots" effect as well to make it more dramatic.

"Ocean" work

Next, I used Crystallize filter to make the reflection on the ocean floor.

"Ocean" work

Then, I created the light from above by using Polygonal Lasso Tool.

"Ocean" work

I also used brush tool to draw a boat.

 "Ocean" work

Finally, I added "BE FREE" by using some text effects. I used this word because "FREE" is the factor that everybody all hope, especially when you swim, you can feel free...and it is related to "Ocean"...:)


"Ocean" work

For my final design I used brush tool to create the smoke as well...and here we are...

"Ocean" work