Dubya in Photoshop

More fun painting in Photoshop......

Art DNA logo: Part 3

I wasn't completely happy with the way the logo turned out, so I decided to play with it some more. The biggest problem I had was that the pencil and brush were not intertwined, and therefore did not really resemble a DNA double helix. So I went back to my original Illustrator file, selected the brush & pencil, then used the pathfinder to divide the paths. Once that was done, I selected the paths I wanted to move and colored them accordingly. It's still not perfect, but it's getting better.

Art in my DNA: The Sequel

I finished the logo that I started yesterday using Illustrator. The text was done using the scribble effect, and everything else was drawn with the pen tool.

A Scanner Darkly

This image was created using the tutorial here. It was painstaking work, and took the good part of a day, but I think it is worth it in the end.

Team Qualidation

Another logo idea...this is for my co-workers. I've recently learned a lot about making custom art brushes and transforming shapes. I like the retro look of it all.

more fun with the letter e

Ugly Fish Part Deux

Created in Illustrator CS2....I outlined the basic shape with the pen tool, colored it using gradients, then added the background.

Pattern

Pattern drawn in Illustrator.

I can use the pen tool!

I know it's nothing fancy, but I drew this in Illustrator completely with the pen tool! I was inspired by watching a tutorial on You Tube. The pen tool tutorial and many more are available at www.tutvid.com. Seeing it done makes much more sense than reading about it. I'm going to practice a lot, because if this is what I can accomplish after a 20 minute video, I may be well on my way to a thriving career quicker than I imagined.

Check my poopdeck!

Another baby design (available here). This one was my little sister's idea. I hope I did it justice. I'm really becoming addicted to using textures and adusting the transparency to give a different feel to the image.

Will Cry for Food

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latest t-shirt designs

Here are just a few of the latest designs I've added to my cafepress shop (www.cafepress.com/konite).

Konite Designs

These are 2 logos I designed for my Cafepress shop (www.cafepress.com/konite). I made the starburst design by first drawing an elongated triangle and they using the transform feature to rotate it every 20 degrees. I placed a colored circle behind it, and then the cutout square in front (2nd picture). In the first pic, I made the cutout square white. I also gave a brushstroke to the text in the first image.

Yankees Suck!!! Now with less copyright infringement!

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Yankees Suck!

This is how I roll!

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Maybe a dingo ate your baby!

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Potty like a rockstar!!!!

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Another onesie design....

I drew the star shape and filled it with "metal gold" in the graphic style menu. I copied the star (no fill; black outline) and made it slightly bigger than the 1st. I aligned the 2 stars in the center. I gave the black outline a brush stroke (0.25pt). In the next layer I made the text, and also gave it a brush stroke, and rounded all of the edges. In another layer, I took a picture of some wood grain, live traced it, and colored it white. I then manipulated the size and placement of the texture until I was happy with it.

More Onesies

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Some more of the onesies and bibs I'm making for my future niece/nephew. These are not too original, but my brother-in-law is a huge fan of the tv show MASH, and the band R.E.M. The MASH design is pretty straight forward...I just used a font that was similar and filled it with black, and outlined in white. I created a box filled with green behind the text. I also made a red rectangle, then copied it, rotated it and aligned the two in the center. Then I added the shapes together in the pathfinder menu.

For the REM design, I found a picture of the Monster album cover and applied the live trace. It took a bit of playing to get the detail I wanted. I also had to carefully delete the elements I didn't want. I then used live paint to fill in the image with a shade of orange. The text was added in a separate layer.

Baby Onesies

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My brother in law and sister in law are having a baby in June. I am VERY excited for my 1st niece/nephew to enter the world. Since I'm no good at quilting or knitting, I've decided to design and print custom baby onesies. I have a ton of ideas, some original, some not so much. Anyway, here is the first design I've finished.

I took the sketch of George Bush I drew for The Sketchbook Project (see post on 10/23/07) and placed it into a blank document. I applied a live trace, changing the threshold until I was happy. In a separate layer I created the text. I also placed a picture of a crumbled sheet of paper that I found online. I applied a live trace to the paper and placed it in front of the text. I copied the text and pasted in front. Then, selecting the pasted text and the paper, I made a clipping mask.

The 2nd onesie was just text that I filled green and then applied the woodcut appearance under the graphic styles --> text menu.