photoshop tutorial

Today we got a photoshop tutorial and a task to complete in photoshop.

here are my notes from the seminar:

• you are what you consume
  • what you absorb from your environment will effect your actions
• always start on paper
  • mind maps
    • get down all your ideas in a organised format, meaning you can go back at any point and look for inspiration
    • helps to develop and expand initial ideas
  • design storyboard
    • shows gradual developments 
    • gives customers an idea of your progression and they may prefer something previous in the development rather then the final piece
• inspiration
  • mag. raygun 
    • abolition of text
    • font
  • designer republic
• trying different ways of ding things
• peripheral learning 
• no tutorials

After the seminar we where given the task to create a piece of album artwork. So fueled with motivation from the seminar I came up with an idea for a rap album. After making a few sketches and looking at different pieces of street art I came up with the idea of having a hand in black and white holding a saturated crown on white background, with the text of the album on black.

here is the speed art of the creation of my idea in photoshop.

and here is the final piece.

I like how the album cover turned out, however it is not how i wanted to originally look. I would of wanted a more scrawny and bony hand but in the end this is the best hand I could find.