Design Competition Final

Design Competition Final

This is my final creation for the design competition project. I started in Illustrator drawing and working with the Live Trace, and then moved it to Photoshop where I applied textures, adjusted brightness, contrast, and shadows. I worked with the pencil, eraser, paintbrush, and healing tools, along with layer styles, masks, and filters.

I set out with my design to create a finished project that encouraged the viewer to look at things a little differently, as Surrealism often does. My end design combines the mixture of both a 2D and 3D view, with the faucet popping while the metal stays flat, but is arranged with shadows to add depth. The use of metal for the waves creates a new perspective in my surreal world.

Design Competition Sketch 2

Design Competition Preliminary Sketch 2

This is my second preliminary design for the design competition. I kept much of the original concept, and plan to keep my work as a surreal digital artwork. Surrealism often focuses on the placement of objects or ideas that are used in new ways. My intention for either design idea is to create a surreal world.

Design Competition Sketch

Design Competition Sketch

This is my sketch for the design competition for The Lumen Prize Exhibition Award. This competition is for fine art created through digital means. My plans for this design are inspired by one of my favorite surrealist artists, Rene Magritte. When finished, this project will be a surreal digital artwork.

Redesign an Album Cover Final

Final Cover Design

This is my final cover design for the Battlestar Galactica soundtrack. I had a rather hard time with this project, and I feel I may have taken on a larger project than perhaps I should have. I drew the design in Illustrator with the pencil and transferred it to Photoshop where I painted it, added the Gaussian blur, and text. Painting this took quite a bit of time and many layers as I attempted to capture as many highlights and shadows as possible. My goal was to make it a bit ominous. I had also downloaded and used the font from the old series for the title.

The Eye of Jupiter

Redesign an Album Cover

Original Album Cover

Redesigned Album Cover Sketch

For my album cover, I chose to redesign the cover of the soundtrack from the television series Battlestar Galactica. I decided to focus on the Cylon (a cybernetic organism), which is a major part of the story line. I also incorporated an addition into the eye of the Cylon, the Eye of Jupiter, another important part of the Battlestar Galactica storyline.

Recreate Using Illustrator

Original Photo

Preliminary Sketch

Final Project

For my project, I chose a photo of a flower I had taken some time ago. I started by sketching over the flower in Illustrator with the pencil tool, then transferring it into Photoshop where I used the eyedropper, bucket, and paintbrush over multiple layers. I ended with the gaussian blur on the hand painted background to recreate the blurred background.