Texture

Texture is what you feel when you touch something physically. Above is an image with a visible texture which was used to give it a grungy effect. The human mind always wants to make the body touch things, me included. I always think "What if I touched it?" or "What does it feel like?" Well that only happens when I can't make a guess. Here I can make a guess. It is grungy so it would feel like rough or hard, although it is shiny in the corner and dark in the others, like it should be soft. Everything has a texture but you can make some things more interesting by giving it a visual texture aside from its physical one. I will always wonder how people come up with these textures as it is easy to know that they took an image in photoshop and overplayed the texture onto it. Aside from that, the image is pretty nice.

Open Canvas

For those of you who can draw, I recommend Open Canvas programs. The image above was done 90% in Open Canvas and 10% in Photoshop. Such good digital art, drawn by hand is great. There are many people who do this, but the world could use more artists drawing their art digitally and editing them with other programs if they so desire. The world is shifting into a digital age and sooner or later, everything will probably be digital, even paintings. I am not saying everything HAS to be digital, but it seems inevitable to not move on with the change. As the digital things come, people will get even lazier and will want to see online museums rather than going to one themselves most of the time. It is kinda sad and good at the same time. Good as out technology and knowledge grow, but sad as people become too dependent on such things.

Urban Violence

While this image looks awesome and the manipulation to make it look gloomy and in terror is simply just awesome, that is not why I chose it this time around. It is more of a parody on violence in urban areas. The only people are is maybe those in cars or maybe the guy walking on the right. What does it mean? It shows just how people are just turning a blind eye to all these events, even if they are out in the open. Gangs and other criminals do what they want until they kill someone or rob a convenient store and are caught on camera or something. Tthis picture can give you the wrong idea with the monster things attacking, but it is meant to be ridiculous to throw you off. It is just an example of how we are too busy with our own personal issues to even look at the problems around us.

Combining Hand Drawn with Photoshop

Here is something I see less uncommon these days. It is a very simple process as well. You take a hand drawn, uncolored art like this was, many times from a manga or something, and open it in photoshop. You then proceed to make new layers set on the multiply type. Then you choose you colors with the round brush and go at it. Multiply allows you to color over black lines and thus not having to worry about messing up as you have layers as well. This is what happened with the above picture. What makes this better is that is uniquely drawn AND colored by the same guy. And how he was able to color it with all the curves and styles plating around is pretty awesome to say the least. As I said, it is not uncommon these days and many people do it, even professionals as it is easier to color in photoshop than real life.

Another Matte

Matte Paintings today are usuall done in computer programs and edited there as well, however in the old days, they were painted on large sheets of glass using pastel or oil paints because they were scenes and locations that would be too expensive or impossible to build. Computers then edited in the live action footage from a green screen and it all came together. As seen with the excellen piece above, the paintings are usually VERY detailed and well done. Not only does it look epic, but it fits the criteria of it being an impossible. Some notable mattes are the Government Warehouse in Raiders of the Last Ark, Emerald City in Wizard of Oz, and even London as Mary Poppins floated on her umbrella. Today these things are pretty much painted in photoshop or another design program for ease and lesser cost of materials total, but it is amazing how they did it in the past.

Simple Space

Another picture all done in photoshop. Anyone in 201 can do something like this, given the right shuttle picture and the tutorial for it as you need at most that and maybe a brush pack to do this. It is a beautiful shot of a red and blue colored planet. It also has the "badass" tone to it with the rocks floating around it. The stars and nebula are done exceptionally well too. I have done stuff like this before but I always lacked toe patience to do it right and decently. It shows just how powerful photoshop can be. This picture is an understatement though as it can do much more than this given the skill. People should go out and find tutorials and learn more and more if they have to. Even if you are not an artist, you can make something great just by following a simple tutorial on the web. Its ironic how awesome art can be taken from must have skill with hands and tools to the use of a mouse and a program.

Orchestra Again

I used this Orchestra at the beginning of my post series as well. They’re back with another piece. This is the same song I used in my seventh 201 assignment. This piece just gives you much more feel than normal in the moments it is played in. The moments when the person shows the determination and will succeed at what they believe is right. The Orchestra plays it so well and with the instruments all clear so one can hear them all. There are Orchestras all over that do video game and anime music because unlike what some people think, their music can be nothing short of amazing. The Eminence Orchestra played this song along with the other pieces they used from video games. Even if they were like Mario, they were performed well and entertainingly. I believe that there should be more groups like this to share the wonders of such skill in music.