Lately i’ve been trying out new ideas and approaches that i havent used before, as I don’t want to be a copy-cat designer. (well maybe the beach one is a bit cheesy, but i really liked the image,)
The first one was just a bit of fun, they were based on images from the booklet you get on the airplane - I pinched it :ne:. The elements like the lugguage and two people were based on images i’d found on google. I played around with the colour and thought that yellow and dark grey/balck complimented each other well.
The beach one was traced in illustrator, I’d planed to do a similar treatment to the Strict Machine image, but I thought the image worked well with-out any extra bits.
The ‘strict machine’ image was based on an image i traced in illustrator from a picture in a magazine i’d scanned. I then put the image in Photosop, and experimented with ‘messy’ brushes. I’m much more experienced/ confident with the Illustrator than I am with photoshop.
(all images are traced from real images, its hard to make up images, as it neveer quite seems right) I also make images like these from my digital camera aswel.
They all look good. Not much to say about them but here is what I think
Image1 - Looks good only comment, is maybe make the outside stroke on the plane 2-4 pts thicker, as well as the vertical lines behind it, I think it would really make it pop. I could see this as a real ad somewhere.
Image2 - Good image, only thing is it looks like the guys hand is melting. I also swore I saw this image on IllustratorWorld b4
Image3 - The eye ball shouldn’t be the pointy oval eye looking shape should just be a circle. The grey part under her arm… what is that? Shouldn’t it be body color if it’s a tank top? Kind of confusing. This graphic is sweet though, the best one out of them all.
Image two - the hands joining together was quite complicated, by the time i’d got to it I was fed up with it. The image was from my sisters magazine, which i’d scanned in, the low resolution of the original scan casued the confusion I had with the conjoined hands. As with any similarities to other peoples work, It must be coincidental. Im often inspired by other peoples work, but I don’t like to copy them. I’d often take a colour scheme I like and try out on a completely different image.
Image 3 - The effect on the eye is due to the duplicated layer which i put underneath. The straps on her arm are part of her dress. The little circular motif - i think this dosent fit in as its too contemporary, so dosent work with the text and style. - What do you think?
Oh and please be as critical as you want because thats why i came here, I’m tired of showing my work to non-design/art freinds, who dont give me any feedback. I really want to push myself and i cant do that without any critical anaylsis.
For image 2 I wasn’t saying you copied it by any means, just thought it looked similar, and I actual found the image I was talkin about and if IllWorld wasn’t bein janky I would give you the link to it, but it was a naked couple walking away hand and hand. And his hand looks like it’s melting in the picture too… wtf
Image3, yea try making it her skin tone and see what you get, it just kinda looks awkward.
Also, I’m critical you should see all my other CnC, I’m pretty mean when there’s a need. But you did a real good job.
The second one - kind of cool how you made her dress sort of see-trough. Her hair is great to. The shorts on the guy could be better though.
The airport-one was also great! But is the white lady supposed to only have one leg? On the signs I have seen the woman also has two legs, but it could just be my crappy memory:)
Maybe it does, im not sure. I guess wanted to tryout different a different style, ive done too many images like the beach one, where its just very simple. The earlier compositions did have natural skin tones, but i wanted a darker feel to the image. But thanks for the comments tho.
Thanks for the comments slumgutt, I’m pretty sure women only have one leg…
Um I think it varies depending on the country and location. Some have 2 legs some have one. The one i based mine on had one leg. Although it is a bit odd…