Graphic Design Course

Hello Everyone, Today's Subject Assessment 1 Portraits This is just a quick blog to let everyone know I completed my assessment piece. I completed, submitted and had it marked all on Friday 16th August 2 days before due date. I am happy with the outcome and my friend Naomi which is my muse loves it. For more information about this amazing human being read my previous blog.  Few things important I want to point out about this portrait. The paw prints are based from her beautiful do Bo who she loves dearly The Endure Survive banner is based from one of her favourite games. That's all for now, Crystle Mcauliffe

Hello Everyone, Today I am working on my Assessment My first assessment for the course and I'm excited to start. Once I knew what my first assessment was a portrait I was excited especially because I was able to draw someone super special in my life. Someone who inspires me and mentors me in her own special way. Someone who encourages me to continue working on my art and encourages me to do great in my personal art and in my professional course work art. My best friend Naomi. I've drawn so many portraits of Naomi for practice for poses, facial expressions, hairstyles, outfits and more. I feel like I have learnt a lot from her. She is an artist herself and her drawing style inspires me to created new and magical pieces of art some good some bad. Practice makes perfect.  To start of this assessment was easy. Choose the subject of the art work. Check. Set up an A3 project. Check. Choosing the reference image. Took me a while but Check. Import image, scale image and cr

Hello Everyone, Today's Lesson Self Portrait In the previous blog I left my self portrait at base colours with shadows and highlights on the body and face. In this blog I will be talking about the next lot of steps I took to complete the piece. First of all I opened my previously save file and looked over the work that I was happy with the work I have already done. I wasn't happy with the highlights as I felt like they blended in a little too much. I adjusted the opacity till I was happy with the way it look. I adjusted the shapes a little as well as some of it was not quite right. Once completing this I was ready to move onto the next step.  Next part I wanted to work on was the hair for this I made a custom brush. For this I combined two long, thin ovals. I made a single oval in which I grabbed the left and right points of the ovals and dragged them out to make them a lot more longer and more pointy but the centre staying chunky and thick. I copied and pasted