Painting in Photoshop

This is my first attempt at painting an image in Photoshop. I inked the lines with the brush tool in Illustrator, then imported it into Photoshop. I also got a little texture happy, but I still think it looks cool.

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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.

Can't Stop!

I can't stop thinking of different ideas for my friend's website. There are so many things you can do with the letter "e." For this design, I drew a box, and then placed the letter on top. I subtracted the letter from the box (pathfinder menu), and added a shadow. I then copied the box 3 times and changed the orientation of each one. Viola!

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Happy Accidents

While playing with some different logo design ideas I was moving the images around on the screen. The picture above happened when I copied the triangle with an E, and then pasted it on top. I was going to reflect the image, but I kinda liked the way it looked, so here it is.


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Illustrator logo

This is just a very basic rendition of the sketch below in illustrator. I didn't do anything special. I used Live Paint to color the logo, then dropped a shadow.


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button/pin logo

A friend mentioned needing a logo for a website he runs. He wanted something simple, perhaps just the letter "e." So I was playing around today with some simple pin shapes in Illustrator that I learned about on Veerle's blog (in my links). For Veerle's complete tutorial, go here:

Here are the 2 designs I've come up with based on the pin idea (the actual images are much nicer than the png files I've uploaded):






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Puffin

I haven't used Corel Painter for a while, so I thought I'd get back to it. Here I painted a puffin using mostly wet acrylics and some smeary brushes as well. First, I cloned the image (file --> clone). In the clone I selected the image (Select --> All), and deleted it by pressing the backspace key. This left me with a blank canvas. I was able to toggle back and forth to the original image by turning the tracing paper effect on and off. I eyeballed most of the colors, but there were some that I selected using the color picker (hold alt key) while painting. None of the painting was done using the clone stamp. I really like the visible brush strokes and the appearance of layering paint in some areas.

progression

I am still incredibly new to Illustrator and Photoshop, so everytime I learn anything new, it makes a huge difference. Case in point is my profile pic. First I sketched the picture with pencil on tracing paper.

My 1st attempt at drawing the image in Illustrator:

I was playing with gradients a little, but my lines are horrible. I am NOT proficient with the pen tool. Hopefully practice really does make perfect.

My 2nd attempt in Illustrator:

I learned a little bit about mesh gradients, which I incorporated into the shoes and hair. Also, some of the line work is a little better. Maybe in 6 months I'll take another stab at it to see how far I've come.

Edited to add: I didn't export very high quality images from Illustrator, so they are pixelated. The real images are much smoother. If I get around to it, I'll export them as PNG files and post again.

Always tweaking....

I am always tweaking things I draw...always looking for ways to improve. Especially with anything I create digitally since I still have so much to learn.

I added one small thing to the shamrock from the honeymoon t-shirt, but I think it really looks better. So I made a shape that follows the edge of one leaf, but a little smaller. I filled it with a greyscale gradient, and then set the transparency to "screen" mode.

I also made a small change to the back of the shirt. I added a picture of a typical Ireland road sign and just moved some of the other images around. The road sign was made by using the live trace feature on an image from the internet. Again, a small change, but I think it really improves the overall look. Too bad I made these changes after the shirts have shipped.

Logo Design 2

I just thought I'd post with the latest change to the "sshabang" logo I am working on. I changed the tail a little on this one to better match my original sketch. I'm still waiting to hear back from my friend regarding any changes he may like.