graphic design

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DARE

This is a piece I did of one of my closest friends who is very daring and brave. This assignment was based on Shepard Fairey’s style, and our goal was to use 5 or less colors. I accomplished this goal, however I also used a couple different transparency modes to achieve depth in the piece in the background. However, the main focus is the girl in the front, where I made the face lineless and used shading in replacement. I used a brighter, lighter color to contrast from the dark background to really make her stand out.

Shoe Repetition

This is a tracing that I did of my shoe and copy and pasted it repeatedly while also using the ‘color dodge’ transparency mode to create an interesting effect. Upon doing this, I made almost a striped effect where one stripe is black and the other shows the details of the laces.

Mountains

This is a piece of some blue mountains with a sunset. I layered the mountains on top of each other with gradients on both of them to make them look distant and dark. I used the layering effect with a couple of the trees, as well, and I used the gradient effect with the ground.

Post Prom Poster

This poster that I designed was for a contest in school. I hand-drew the “Post Prom” writing and layered different colors of it behind it to make it stand out. . I traced the television and used yellow and blue triangles to make it look like the television is on and similar to an old t.v.

Logo

This is a logo that I designed that basically describes me. I drew a bird because I just think that birds are very interesting. I had to make it grey instead of black because of how it printed out. I used purple in the background because I thought it looked nice and complemented the crow well. And finally, I used a pencil because I like to draw in general. I hand-drew the lettering of my last name to balance out the composition of the logo.