April 5th, 2009
So as of late, I’ve been practicing using my Wacom Bamboo tablet to sketch and trace just so I can be comfortable with drawing digitally. Understanding the pressure and different strokes being applied is important because drawing on a tablet is much more different than what I have been used to such as a pencil and paper. I think I definitely have a better handle of it now so I wanted to paint in some of my sketches. Here are a couple I did last week.
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Tags: adobe, cs3, digital painting, illustrations, photoshop
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April 1st, 2009
Like before, my friend approached me to help him figure out how to put together his ecommerce site. Rather than building it from scratch, he was looking for a professional web designer. I told him that he should look into one of the Yahoo! Business sites as it had a fairly decent shopping cart built in. It isn’t much but it serves its purpose of selling auto parts whether old, new, OEM or aftermarket. He trying to unload his mass inventory of auto parts since his family operates a auto wrecking yard. Here is a link to it: LPD Auto Parts online store.
He also wanted my to help him with some images and getting some products published. I guess the Yahoo! Business site is not as intuitive as advertised but I figured some of it out. Here’s my attempt making a logo slash... Continue Reading...
Tags: cs3, illustrator, logo, lpd auto parts, photoshop
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March 29th, 2009
Last year I found a good deal on a Wacom Bamboo tablet and thought it would be fun to have. I’ve always loved to draw, sketch, and trace. I also loved to mess around with Photoshop and Illustrator. As you know, if you been reading since the beginning, I want to get into web development; but its been taking much longer and its more of a hobby.
Anyways, here are some of my sketching I made using Photoshop.
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Guan Gong
My niece, Madeline.
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Tags: 3 kingdoms, bamboo, cs3, god of war, guan yu, photoshop, sketching with brush, wacom tablet
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June 19th, 2008
Sometimes you find an image that needs little a work and I figured this would be a fun one because what can be done should be subtle. The girl in the image has great features and amazing eyes; but it is a bit dark. I tried to just clean it up a bit and add a bit more color to it.
The changes are minimal but the overall feel is considerably more vibrant. The little fixes made this quick snapshot photo of her almost professional. Take a look at the before and after photos and let me know what you think.
Before:
After:
There are many ways to retouch a photo and often times, not much needs to be done. I only worked on her face and hair so her neck and hand is still a bit bland.
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Tags: beauty, color, make up, photo retouch, photoshop
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June 3rd, 2008
So over the weekend, I started using some profile pictures of people to try to manipulate them, either from removing normal blemishes, losing weight, etc. I decided to go for a more extreme and found a photo online that gave me an interesting time trying to manipulate the photo in photoshop. How extraordinary is with a few filters, some skewing, adding some hair and color, a person can totally look different.
I think this gives a really good idea of how one should consider before going for an extreme make over. Take a look at what I did below:
BEFORE PHOTOSHOP
AFTER PHOTOSHOP
As seen, I still need to put in some extra time to make the man more natural; his skin is almost ‘fake’ and I had to some how create a neck. However, I am quite satisfied with the job on the photo... Continue Reading...
Tags: adobe, manipulation, photoshop, pshopped, ugly
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