Final Creative Project

My idea for my project was to create a series of designs to represent my pretend company. I used
photos of my own tattoos and incorporated them into my designs. I wanted all of my designs to be colorful and stand out. I used a combination of Photoshop and Illustrator. I made of the backgrounds, the flowers in the first design, and the bones and the sunburst effect in the second design all in Illustrator. I used some different brushes and layer effects in Photoshop. I also created all of the text in Photoshop and added some effects to that as well.

Original Tattoos:

Creative Project: Preliminary Round 2

I figured out how to do the sunburst tutorial I mentioned in my last post and I changed the layer to overlay over my green background. Then I used the Eraser tool and a decorative brush to 'cut out' the shape in the background. For my zombie girl, I used the Cutout Filter to give her a more cartoon-y appearance (trying to use the pen tool to make her a vector was just not working out). I used the bone I had made in Illustrator and used the Transform tools to get them into the shape that I wanted. I put in each bone one by one which was a bit time consuming, and then merged all of those layers. I am still trying to figure out how to make the bones sort of 'blend' more with the rest of the design. Then I just added some text with a Stroke and Drop shadow effect.

Creative Project: Preliminary Round 1

My idea for this project is to create a series of vector-style designs for my project. The plan is to use my own tattoos (which were drawn by me) and then use Illustrator/Photoshop to make them into cartoon-y vector designs. I ultimately want to make these designs be advertisements for my own pretend design company. This would still be 3-4 seperate designs, all 8x10. 

I hate to say it, but I'm moving pretty slowly with this project. I have been working through a lot of Illustrator tutorials and learning a lot of new things. I have had a breakthrough with the pen tool in Illustrator though, and it is becoming a lot easier for me to use. 

My first design is almost completed. I still have to work on the scorpion part of it and make it look more vector-y. I found a great tutorial for the flowers here and it was actually pretty easy. The zebra print is from a picture I took of one of my sweaters. I did a gradient overlay in Illustrator, which is a little different than making one in Photoshop.

This is the next design that I have started working on:

I am working on the background for this design, also made in Illustrator, and I am trying to create this sunburst effect (tutorial here) but it isn't turning out the way I want. I also made these little bones using the rectangle and ellipse shape tools in Illustrator to recreate the bones in the tattoo, and I am working on making them more three-dimensional.