Cloud Castle Magazine Cover

This is my version of the magazine cover, I had a bit of trouble with the shadows and trying to choose the right font (I tried to get as close as possible to the fonts that they used, some I had luck with others not so). I also moved the image up so that you could see a bit of the town below the rain and not just the tops of the mountains. Overall I think I did a pretty good job, more practice going around type fonts will help me more in the future.

Recreation of Australian artwork

I found this piece of art by the Australian artist John Martin - Anthem for the Great Spirit - Totem 2, 1991 and decided to recreate it in illustrator, I love the way the fabric is draped over the arm of the woman. The colours are lovely in this picture too. It was fun using different brush tools and trying to create the textured effect on one of the pieces of fabric.

Freckle removal

This is an image I got of the net, we had to try and remove as many freckles as possible using the healing and clone tools. below is the end result.

Although I have removed most of the freckles, not all were so easy to remove. It was good to learn how to use these tools, more practice using the tools in photoshop would be handy.

Photoshop patch tool

In class Luke showed us the patch tool, we used this tool to take out the road and add grass so it looks like an empty paddock of grass. The results are below.

This is the after shot, the road has been concealed with the patch tool.

Black Ink Work

This is my seeing hands around the rose pentacle, symbols from the Celts and used in ancient rituals, I joined these symbols together to see what effects I could create, as this is a work in progress I think I will add some Celtic knot work to this design and watch it transform into something else.

This is a simpler piece of artwork, inspired by the North American Indians and their totem spirits.

This is my first ink drawing, I used a continuous line for the pattern. This took me about three days to complete.

Analogue pattern drawing

This is my hand drawn pattern using a 1cm square. It looks better in the diary than on the blog, it was definitely time consuming but relaxing whilst doing this.

Castle Harmony

This is my attempt at harmony in the clouds, most of the colours came from the Baroque colour palette except for the blue clouds, although they blend in with the blue/greys that I have used. I had fun creating this and if I could add anything else to this picture it would be a bit of texture to the background so it would give the image a feeling of being shrouded in fog. I have to learn how to do this and experiment a bit more!