Creature Concept - Textured

Following along the lines of the technique used by Neo Ramjet in his Making of Snaiad page (http://www.nemoramjet.com/sndmakingof.html), I used a texture (below) of what is supposedly elephant hide on Google Images, the closest thing that I thought would fit my creature.

I slowly layered this texture with Photoshop over my line drawing of my creature, which I posted a while ago in May (http://notitiaproductions.blogspot.com/2010/05/creature-concept.html).

All this layering and warping to create a believable and realistic skin texture and a seamless appearance took a lot of layers to perfect, which eventually amassed to 36 layers that I had to navigate around with. Although I guess that isn't as bad as some of the collages I made for Junior High's Grade 7 year (for me) Yearbook, which in some files reached 72 layers.

I might plan to fully add in a background with a sky and everything, depicting what it is like on its virtual planet, but that's for a later post.

Yearbook Graduates Template

I've been quite busy the last couple of weeks bogged down with not only projects, but a Yearbook.

You see, two friends of mine, Andi and Vivian, decided to collaborate to make a Yearbook for the two Gifted Grade 8 classes only. Now, the few problems with making yearbooks are the designs, and the costs. The costs we've gotten a rough estimate already, because we were supposedly going to print out all of our sheets today, but no one was finished their own jobs. Anyways, the designing portion was fun at least, and here I'll show you what steps I took to reach the end result.

I started off with a small sketch in my sketchbook, shown above here. It essentially summed up the gist of what I wanted to do, so I went straight ahead and made a rough draft, but only this time, on the computer.

Now that didn't look the most appealing to me, but it was my first template, so I stuck with it for a while. Then, after obtaining our graduating photos from my French teacher, who is helping us, I started to make my Graduates Pages Template a whole lot better.

And there you have it, that's the end result. I won't put all the text in yet, lest it spoil the yearbook for you. They're only 5 dollars each, and ask Vivian if you want a copy!

Yearbook Title Page

This is the last year I will be at my Junior High, and I was contemplating yearbook designs. Here is a title page I made last year. I uses a lined piece of paper and a pencil, and then I added the finishing touches on Photoshop. Anybody care to give constructive criticism?