This is my poster for TC062. A lamp bulb, 2 eye balls and drawing material forming a Jolly Roger, or in this case an awareness sign. My idea of  the room is one where we learn to listen, observe, think, draw, generate ideas and improve our visual communication skills.

Digital Skills class room poster

C324 is one of the spaces at UWL where the digital magic happens. This is why to represent room C324 I designed an apple desktop with rainbows and shapes coming out from it. 

 A room where creativity happens the poster representing it should be colorful but the brief  said to  produce a monochrome poster so I thought that by drawing shapes and represent creativity with motion instead of color would also be a good option.

This was a very time consuming  drawing. But I loved it! I got lost on detail and I reckon I could have done a lot better but it might take me a whole day or two to get it  right. It took me around 6 hours to produce this vector drawing. Being able to use layers cleverly was a key point. One of the things I had a bit of trouble was creating the grass, bushes and trees. I kept selecting, copying and reflecting it and it  got to the point the file became to slow so I guess that should be a more efficient solution to create the illusion of flora in a Illustrator drawing.

Hi! My name is Kew!

 Or at least in my head she looks similar to that. :) For this portrait I found it really useful to draw a grid and use it as a template in order to get the proportions right. Also duplicating and reflecting vertically some parts of the drawing was a great help.

Colour adjustment

12 asymmetrical designs

My first attempt at creating a Gif image in photoshop.

Digital Type

This is the proof that my vector drawing skills have improved significantly. I'm definitely happy with my illustrator drawing. I had a bit of trouble working out the gradient direction but overall I achieved what I was aiming for. Had the idea of creating palette swatches from textures as it gives a more realistic look to  the drawing. (even though I'm not sure I'm allowed to do that in vector drawing I still think it looks great.)

Symmetry

Another exercise. This time using alt+(drag) and  the "Transform" options to produce a symmetrical design.
Reflect/Rotate in my opinion are the most basic tools in Illustrator but very useful ones. From  drawing to create patterns it's a tool I constantly use.

Vector explorations

Tracing an object with the pen tool takes some time, specially if is something you not used to do. Getting the curved shapes right  was where I found more difficulty but as I continued to trace I started to get the hang of it. I started to trace from the top left and you can see clearly how I gradually improved with the pen tool.

Cyber Space_the result.

And this is what happened!
 I struggle with  Photoshop more than any other Adobe CS software.
Didn't manage to produce exactly what I was aiming for but wasn't totally unhappy with the results, specially the planet's surface.
You can see some bits  that needed editing but overall I think I managed to produce an original space scenery.

Cyber Space_the plan

The 4 scans I selected to create a background. My idea was to create some sort of planet surface.