Friday, November 16, 2012

Gradient Duck

I don't like using making an image fully of gradients, though this did let me figure out how to change the size and shape of a radial gradient

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Adobe Illustrator Flowers

This program makes it easier to apply gradients from specific areas (like the center), though I'm mostly unfamiliar with the program for now. I dislike the way it sorts layers so far, as I've only found options to move one layer deeper/higher or directly to the top/bottom, without indication of what layer the objects are on. The objects also seem to get in eachothers' ways while while trying to select only one or a specific group

Book Cover Design


I chose Kurloz to draw because he's one of my favorite characters, along with being more newly revealed, so I hadn't really drawn him yet
Homestuck is a piece of multimedia that doesn't have any genre that fully covers it, though it is normally referred to as a webcomic. The story is mostly seen in a game-like style, sometimes talking directly to the reader and/or becoming extremely meta. There are many settings in Homestuck, including houses, forests, different planets, different universes, voids, places that completely disregard and concept of rational timespace, dreamworlds and more. There really is no set mood either; it can be funny and humorous (Hussie also includes the readers ideas in the story, often picking up jokes made by the fandom and making them show up once in a while), serious, dramatic, heartbreaking, or just plain confusing
The first cover reflects the more joyful parts of the story, with several of the characters from Beforus together, alive. The second cover reflects more of the darker side of the story, showing the design of the strongest enemy/challenge in Homestuck (so far), along with showing strength through the god-tiering.
The first font was used to seem more like Alternian/Beforian text, since some cannot read Alternian without a guide for translation. The hemospectum was also added into the text, for having a large influence in that xenoculture and being noticeable to Homestuck fans. The second font mimicks the text used in strifes, showing a battle ahead

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Barbie Project

This was based off of the sprites of characters in Homestuck
As an example, here is John:

It pretty mush ended up showing a range of movement for the looks, though I couldn't seem to get the left foot to turn in a way that worked. The origional image was also pretty pixellated, which decrased the quality of the final image. It would work better if I could find a full-body image that was higher quality. It was pretty difficult to resize and warp everything to the correct size without distrorting shapes within each piece, like the tie