Art-Personal (Wizard of Oz Reference)

Sketch

The most difficult about the this project was creating a perspective
of the layout which I have many problems with. Do you think I
accomplished somewhat of a perspective?
The most time consuming part of this project was, of course,
the wooden fence because I had to duplicate each piece
many times. Before I did, I used color dodge and burn tool
to give some depth to the wooden piece to make
them look more realistic. After that, I then began
to position the field and ground. The field went right in place
and needed no duplication (thank goodness), but the ground
was a whole different story. I had duplicated and converged
same pieces together and used the eraser and clone stamp
tools to blend all them in.
Off to Dorothy (Stephanie), the extraction was a little tedious,
but after that I cropped her right leg to create movement
(to show that she is fleeing away from the tornado - thanks
to my Professor for showing me that). I then color adjusted
Toto (my dog Scruffy), trying to resemble the black dog
in the story/movie. Lastly, I made two shapes with a red
fill color, to create the importance of this picture - the
ruby slippers. Then added some brush clicks to
add those sparkle effects.
The tornado and clouds came easy, made the tornado
with a cloud picture and transformed it into the shape
of a tornado, and added color adjustment for a more
darker color. The clouds involved some duplication
and used some color adjustments as well.
And finally, I finished off using the brush to create
a grass-like pattern in the field, and created a debri
brush present to show some mess flying around.

DVD Cover (Demon Child)

Sketch

I started thinking about a background and started experimenting
with different ideas while sketching, then I played with
different gradients and came to the one that you see.
I added the picture of my nephew next and proceeded
to add very hard shadows to get an erie feel.
I then went to shape his eyes and made new ones
with paths and colored them white and added
a red shape to show evilness.
I then loaded the back cover pictures and added some
outterglows with layer style. I then loaded a stock
dvd cover preset and inserted it to the bottom of
my back cover. Then I went on to the side to
add the title text and insert the
20th Century fox and DVD logos.
I went back to the front cover to add the title and
like the side title I added a bevel and emboss
texture through layer style.

Flyer II (Gears of War 3 Tournament)

Sketch

I created a shape with the pen tool
and filled it with red.
I then added a couple layer styles
for the effects, like: outer glow,
inner shadow, and bevel and emboss.
Also on my shape I used the brush
to create the black spot
for a more rigid look.
The fire was made using the white, red,
and orange brush and then
altering them with transform.

Magazine Cover II (Video Game Kraze)

Sketch

I started this project creating the lightspeed pattern using the pen tool/paths.
I then concluded with red and yellow because they are very vibrant
colors and stand out which was what I was going for.
Then I added the pictures of both arms, respectively,
and the controller. Then did very minor adjustments
to the controller and arms.
Then I started with the type and I was looking for a modern
type, that also had a technical sense to it. I then finished
the project off by adding the barcode and pricing.