Sunday, December 6, 2009

Illustrator Project #1: Seasonal Shopping Bags




Design Notes – Holiday Bag

-Shapes made to fill template & dashed line drawn

- First shoe drawn freehand with pen (drew outline first and details second)

-Second shoe is a reflected copy of the first shoe

-Christmas tree drawn with brush tool

-Star drawn with star tool & brush stroke applied

- Topshop in type

-Dress drawn freehand with pen

-Presents are squares with a 3d applied embezzle effect

-Ribbon was made from squares and pen tool

-Bow was made from star tool

-Plaid for handles was made using squares and Define Pattern. Handles were drawn with pen tool and then filled with plaid.

Design Notes – Fall Bag

-Shapes made to fill template & dashed line drawn

- First boot drawn free hand with pen

- Second shoe is a reflected copy of first shoe

- One leaf was traced with pen tool and copied twice, each leaf being filled with a different color. I then selected the three leaves and created a symbol, which I then used the symbol sprayer to distribute on both pages. I arranged the symbols behind some selected items, decreased the opacity for the leaves on the front of the bag, and used the symbol sizer to make some of the leaves at the bottom bigger than the other leaves.

- Jacket was traced with pen (drew outline first and details second)

-Topshop written in type

Design Notes – Spring Bag

-Shapes made to fill template & dashed line drawn

- Trench coat, umbrella, sunglasses, and dress were traced with the pen tool (for the dress I used two different steps to create the skin tone and the dress)

-Butterfly was traced with pen tool, copied twice, and each of the three butterflies were colored a different color. I then turned the three butterflies into a symbol and sprayed them.

- First flower was traced with pen tool and radial gradient was applied as fill. Second flower is a copy of the first.

- Topshop in type


Wednesday, October 28, 2009

PS Project #2: Print Ad Campaign






























Design Notes:
Venice
These images are layed out on top of each other in various opacities, also altering the saturation of the models to make them appear slightly more sepia in tone.
New York
The gothic facade image was used in a light opacity as a background to change the texture of the whole image.
Miami
The hue and saturation of the image was altered to make the palm trees appear orange and purple, and the models to appear tanner. The fabric was used as an overlay on the model who is laying down.
Paris
The starred image was used three times to create stars throughout the sky while still maintaining visible areas of clouds. I also cut out the Eiffle tower and pasted it into a new layer in order to put the trees into the background. I used the clone stamp tool to make the trees look less square and more like real trees, and also to create the sleeve and part of the models arm on the model with the black hair, so that her arm would not be missing like it was in the original photo. The pop-art image of the Eiffel Tower (pink lights) was overlayed to add a texture to the image.