Final Project ~ Home Page & Navigation System

 

 

I have tried out more new skills and techniques with this project than any others.  I feel like I have gained a much better understanding of what I can do in these programs! 

 

Page 1 ~ Home Page

Page 2 ~ Services Page

Page 3 ~ Contact Page

Image from Bing Images, can be seen from clker.com
I painted a center for the eye while creating the Logo.

Home Page & Navigation System Sketches

 

Here are my sketches for a non-profit company called Precise Investigations.  My sister is adopted and I have tried (with no luck) helping her in the past look for her biological relatives.  It is something I wish more investigators did to help those who desperately need to find that missing piece to their puzzle for free or at a much cheaper rate. 

This is something near and dear to my heart and I would love to do to help others. 

Who knows...maybe this will be my website someday!

 

 

E-Card Design ~ Part 2



 

This is my final E-Card design. 

I felt portraying a simple design went with the simplicity of flipping the switch. 



E- Card

Alisongarwoodjones.com - Piggy Bank



Womentakingastand.blogspot.com – Light Switch





Loose Change - My own picture

 





 clker.com - Frame

E-Card Sketches ~ Conserving Energy



Beginning Ideas for E-Card sketches ~ conserving energy

 

Looking at this more, this sketch almost makes me feel like it is saying flip the switch on...anyone else?

 

For this project I wanted to try new techniques as seen in the videos for class.  Some new things I tried were digital painting, using the brush, switching between colors, moving layers from front to back of one design, and moving projects between the different programs in CS6.    I also downloaded new fonts that reminded me of the era the artist was from.

My original idea for this included a gravestone.  While researching the artist more, I found that her ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean.  So I opted to incorporate her nickname “pearl” in the bottom left corner of the blue colors that to me symbolized water, and the color black for death.  I tried to change the concept to fit the artist’s life.    

Art work references

Fonts from: http://www.fontspace.com/category/1960s

Base idea for dove design: www.Fatimalammar.blogspot.com

Book Cover Project

 

I decided to make a book cover for Janis Joplin who was one of the leading musicians in the folk music movement (http://www.biography.com/people/janis-joplin-9357941).  She grew up in church, was the oldest of three children, and never seem to find her place in life.  Until I researched what she was about, I had never heard her music.  I actually really liked a few of her songs such as Me & Bobby McGee, Cry Baby and Piece of my Heart.  I also didn't know she died two and a half weeks after Jimi Hendrix  (knew he was from that time period, but had not heard his music either).  

 

Janis Joplin made it seem, through different interviews I watched, that her songs were an emotional release for her and a way to connect with other people.  She was her own person, who had difficulty dealing with life and her emotions, eventually dying of a heroin overdose.  I tried to incorporate her musical career with either a symbol of the times such as the orange glasses she was often seen in, the heart to show her feelings, or drugs she used.  On the spine of the second cover idea I used the syringe as part of the microphone. 

 

The more I look at these ideas I kind of like the picture showing the falling music notes into the tombstone.  The bird flying up from the grass, to me, was like the freeing of her spirit.  I tend to prefer the simple look, as in the examples for the animal farm book cover ideas, but I kind of really like the falling notes idea even though it is busier.

Awareness Poster ~ Part 2

 

 

 

 

This is my Awareness Poster for Part 2 of this project. 

I have included the pictures below that I incorporated as layers.  I also tried different text and blending options, sizing the images, and the magic wand tool.

 

 

 

 

 

Hands Together – www.martyestes.com

Dolphins jumping out of the water at sunset/Dolphin pictures gallery. www.dolphin/1writers.com

Morning Sunrise – Heidi Brunner – Photo Galaxy. www.photogalaxy.com

Whale Wallpapers, Download Free Killer and Blue Whales HD Wallpaper www.funonline.in

Yellow childhood cancer awareness ribbon. www.Richgift.blogspot.com

Awareness Poster Ideas, Module 3

 

I have two different causes for an Awareness Poster, 

Childhood Cancer Awareness and Missing and Exploited Children. 

Not sure which I will go with yet, here are some of my ideas...

 

Photomontage Part 2

The promotional photomontage I created is for a country artist. Different photoshop skills I used were digital transparencies, combining visual elements, altering perspectives, color saturation, cropping and layering objects from 3 different pictures. I also created a border with an added texture inside.  I was trying to add the border and texture layer to make it look to the viewer as though they are looking through a window to correlate with the song titled under the artist’s name. I also used the Appaloosa horse’s name as the artist’s name. 

This first page was based on horses, since I am more familiar with drawing them.
The second page I chose something that may be a little different to work with in Photoshop since my original idea was based on a picture.  Cropping and layering sound easy in the tutorials but time will tell I guess!

This second page I was thinking how nice it was outside and wish I could bottle up the sun for rainy days and some how by the end of the drawings I ended up with moonshine stills! Haha!



These are the 3 sketches I chose to enlarge and decide between.

 My little girl, Jillian, says she wants to be a rock star named Gigi Star and a Dentist... so I thought of her with this project. Just for the record, I am crossing my fingers for Dentist!





This last one surprised me as I sketched and seemed like "Bottled Shine" could fit in with the project too.