A-Z of Portsmouth & Evaluation.

We were asked to produce a piece of work, showing an A-Z of Portsmouth.
To create this, I hand-drawed the words and the pictures then scanned into onto the computer.
I then used Photoshop is make it like this.
I used separate layers to colour in certain parts. I did the words on separate layers then the pictures.
I also separated the line art from the actual colouring to make it easier to do.
I put a boarder round to make it look less bland and I also did this because I couldn't think of what to do with the white background.

"The Urban Juice Squad" Evaluation.

These are the final 3 designs I chose to do for my Juice Squad.
I had a lot of designs, but these were my favourites of them all.

The members are 3 different animals (pig, lion and racoon) and they each have a fruit to represent them (blackberry, cherry and watermelon).
The other designs I had were animals too with their own fruit.
The reason I chose these 3 was because they looked the most visually interesting and they were the most fun to create.

Juice Squad - 3 of them.

Here are 3 members of the 'Juice Squad' that I have created.

I started designing characters when I was home and now I'm able to create them on Illustrator today.

They're meant to be animals/human hybrids, each with their own fruit to signify them.

The fruits are strawberry, blueberry and banana.

Juice Squad - Logos.

These are some logos for 'Juice Squad', made in Illustrator.

The third one has fruit with it; a strawberry for the dot on the 'i', a banana above the 'q' and a blueberry after the 'd'. The blueberry may not be so clear.

The colours come the 'Fruit' swatch.

I have drawn the fruit and drops using the pencil tool.

I have also used a tool called 'Stroke' to make the font look chunkier.

The Juice Squad - 5 Inspiring Artists.

Lee Hasler - http://www.leehasler.com/index2.html
Squeedge - http://squeedge.net/
Bryan Lee O'Malley - http://radiomaru.tumblr.com/
Arina Tanemura - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arina_Tanemura
Kepalakardus - http://shadowness.com/kepalakardus

O'Malley is the creator of the Scott Pilgrim series, which is one of my favourite movies and comic book series. I like how his style has a really good cartoon feel to it. O'Malley's style inspires another style I like to do.

On her website, Squeedge uses a program called PaintTool Sai to do her work.

I really like her style because it's always so appealing to the eye. She likes to use bright colours and the line art is something jealous of; she does it so well.

 Kepalakardus is an artist whose primary style is vector art. I want to do vector art style drawings myself and she shows me how good it looks. I like her style because she doesn't use shading or highlighting; it's just simple, plain colours and she makes it look really good. I like how she also has made her own characters. I've also made my own characters and I like to draw them a lot.

 Tanemura is mangaka (manga artist) so she must hand draw her work then ink the line art. I wouldn't know how she would colour it though. I love the manga she makes, the stories are always good, but the artwork I absolutely adore. The colours are sort of pastel and Tanemura is one of the many artists I love that inspire my own work sometimes.

 I like Hasler's style because it reminds me of an retro video game style. I chose this particular art to show because I want to do fruit-like characters for my 'Juice Squad'.

Google Logo - Animated

This is my Google logo animated.
For this, I didn't use the tween tool.
I created multiple layers (for example, the eyes closing) and made the right layer visble for each frame.

Animation in Photoshop - An Interesting Fact About Lobsters.

For the final task, I was asked to make an animation featuring an interesting fact. I couldn't really find good facts on the Internet, but I remember hearing how lobsters aren't naturally red.