Invisible Cities

So here's a bookjacket image I made using a combination of Photoshop and Illustrator. Photoshop for the background and the shapes, and illustrator for the text. You may, if you know my work scarily well, recognise the source images used for the little architecture cutouts: it's the pen and ink drawings of US houses I did a few years back, you can see them here. The book I chose was obviously going to be Invisible Cities, because I love it so, and it ends up influencing my artwork a lot. That about covers it, I think! (Pun unintended.)

You know, I do not find this digital art stuff very easy, but I think it could be useful now that I am kind of starting to get the hang of it.

More of My Mad Technological Skillz

Some more exercises using Photoshop, from my Compooter Artz class.

You may remember I put up some other similar work using Photoshop right here; in that case we were only supposed to use black/white/grey, whereas here we were supposed to use primary colours. I am not really that great at working in colour in general, and was kind of running out of ideas - I just hope it doesn't show! I think I have a wider knowledge of what photoshop does, now. It's pretty fun.

Finally Some Computer Skillz

So I am taking a class in digital art this semester, we are learning to use Photoshop and Illustrator and I think some animation after that. I know, I am only just getting around to using these things, I like to be pretty low tech.


Here we have some of my first faltering black and white exercises in Photoshop. I tried not to use any of the cheesier effects, even though those things are damn tempting even for a total elitist art snob like myself. So mostly just fiddling around with the different brushes.














Wish me luck with my Compooter Artz class. I am going to need it, I find already that I am confused about 70% of the time.