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:

Fruit

This was a drawing I did early on in Digital Art. It was made in Inkscape. For the Banana I made a circle and then shaped it with nodes. At the time this was very challenging for me but now I have a lot more skills it will be a lot easier. The grapes I used circles and then edited them to make the shapes more accurate and grape like. I would now probably be able to make them look better.

Animals

In Digital Art we made whole animals including the bodies. For the heads which we made earlier we just used path operations and basic shapes but for these we had to use a new tool,the bezier tool. With the bezier tool you can make straight lines and you can also curve the lines round. After you edit the nodes to make the shape looks better. I made the legs, arms, stomach and mouth with the bezier tool. For the head and ears I used basic shapes.  Another animal I made was a fish, I made this mainly with the bezier tool.

 Whilst I was making the animal it was fun to make. I also learnt so much about the bezier tool and how to use it better. It was confusing at first but now I understand it.

When I made the fish I also used gradients to make the different colours on the fish. I learnt how to do this when making animal heads but I have now developed it in this piece of work.

My Cartoon Head

On Inkscape we made cartoon heads. I made a basic shape for the outside of the head, for this one I used a circle. I then added ears and eyes. I made the eyes by making a white circle then duplicating it and making it smaller and blurring it and putting in a pupil. I then made the mouth and added the teeth by using the intersection tool. The intersection tool makes things fit into something perfectly. Making the head has really helped my skills, know I can use intersection for more things to make stuff look more accurate. I also know how to make eyes look realistic. Making the head was quite challenging but I am glad I made it as I have learnt a lot.

Heart

When we started doing Vector Graphics the first proper picture we made was a heart. We used a few different tools and methods. We made basic shapes and then made them in to a path by turning object to path. By doing this we could then change the nodes, add nodes and edit the nodes to make them to different shapes by selecting a different shape. I made my heart have a 3D affect by duplicating it and moving it slightly. I made a backround by putting a box around the page and selecting a colour. The nodes are very usful in other pieces of work and doing on a heart was a great way to start using them.