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I created this poster for a class assignment, in which we had to do a poster for a real or fictitious movie. To create the poster, I scanned in photos of Fiestaware dishes and used the Photoshop dodge stamp tool to create the table from a scanned in photo of a piece of wood. It may not look like it, but this was a very hard poster to create and it is the one I'm most proud of, because I learned so much. The text layers on this poster are standard text Photoshop layers. The movie title was done using the brush tool and 2 gradients, then applying multiple effects to give the logo a spooky, glossy look. The biggest question I get about this poster is not "How?", but "Why?". Well, it's like this: it is with complete honesty -- not modesty -- that I tell you I am not the world's most polished artist (which you have likely already figured out). At the school where I did this poster, I was surrounded by people who were good enough before they even got there, to work as commercial artists. Day in, day out, it was always "Wow!" or "Great!" when people saw the work of my classmates. And with my work it was pretty much "Uh-huh...OK, well, yeah." Until one day I was trying to do something in Photoshop, and no matter what I did, it just looked like a big green blob of cat vomit. I got frustrated, wrote "Attack of the Killer Cat Vomit", on it in huge letters, and sat and glared at the screen. My teacher walked by and saw it, and laughed! I decided to take a break and when I came back, more people were standing around my screen laughing. It was the first time there had been any reaction to my work that wasn't in monotone. My friends encouraged me by saying that I should run with my own off-the-wall style, instead of worrying that it wasn't "polished" like my classmates'. And so, there you have it. I can do more polished projects now, but it is still fun to do these crazy things, too. It is fun to embrace my own weirdness, play up my virtually complete lack of drawing ability, and whenever possible, throw in something about the '70's or my cats, which are my trademarks on work I do for family and friends. People may say "Oh, my!" when they see some of my projects now, but at least...no one is indifferent. Thank goodness for great friends who encouraged me to be me! |