Snowboard Designs

Here are some snowboard designs I have made. To make them I traced a plain snowboard with the beizer tool. For the first design I took one of my Vector Graphics and clipped it and positioned it how I wanted it on the snowboard. The second and third took more time because I needed to make the design and then put it on the board. I made a small design and turned it in to a pattern and selected the board. With the board I selected the tab that changes the pattern and choose the pattern number that I had saved it as. The boards weren't were too hard to make.   

Smashed Text

I gave this text a smashed effect. It looks smashed because it has wedges pulled out further than the rest of the text. I did this by making a shape (usually a long, thin triangular shape) and putting it on top of the text and using the intersection tool. After that I selected them both and went path difference. At first I found it hard to do this but it started to get easier and faster. I took a few wedges out and then pulled them out to make gaps in it. To make it look more smashed I got a picture of smashed glass and put it behind the text and clipped it to fit the text.

Using Clone Stamp

I did this using the clone stamp on Photoshop. The original picture was a guy on a snowboard but using the clone stamp I got rid of the snowboard. Selecting the clone stamp means you take pixels from another area and stamp them somewhere else to cover up a place. At first I found it hard to use this tool but then it got easier. The hard thing was that you have to take the stamps but not make it so obvious and make it blend in.

I moved the football on this one and then put the brick there to make it look strange and funny that the kid is kicking a brick.

Here I erased the snowboard and put my own design on the floor.

Macro Photos

We Have been doing Macro photos in Digital Art. Macro photos are when you get very close and focus on one object. I found it hard at first to make it so it isn't blurry and to get close. After taking a few photos it got easier and I started taking lots of pictures. Above are just two of the photos I took. 

First Photos Collage

I made this collage from the first photos I took in Digital Photography. I took about 10 photos and choose my favourite four to display in a collage. I made the collage on Photoshop which was new for me because I have never used it before. I choose my format of how to display the photos and then changed the positions and how big they were. Finally i added a backround to the collage. I thought Photoshop was quite easy and basic but a few things were hard at first like adding a new layer. I think making the collage is a very good way to display more than one piece of work together.

Snowman Vector Graphic

I made this snowman following a tutorial. I learnt how to do some more skills and practised using the bezier tool. I had to use the bezier tool for the scarf and arms. For this I just made the shape basic and then using noods I reshaped it. For the hat I made it look 3D by making two ovals and gave the top one a gradient. I found making the snowman quite challenging and it took a while to make There are a few things that are not perfect like the scarf if not quite in the right place but i am happy with it.

Animal Heads

We are still working on Vector Graphics and have started to ake animal head. We used many new tools whilst making the animals including difference which I used to make new shapes from, so for example to make a cresent shape I overlapped two circles and then difference makes only the part that is not overlapped show. I also practised using intersection which I used for the stripes of the zebra. This makes the stripes fit the face exactly. The heads were fun to make but also hard and they took lots of work and time.

Here are some more examples: