Album Cover- French New Wave

This is the Album Cover Assessment that I have come up with. I decided to do mine on French New Wave, a style of music that was inspired by the French New Wave Cinema movement of the 1950s and 60s, and was also the predecessor of New Wave music.

The album cover is simplistic which I believe makes it work. It is  chic and stylish just like the genre itself.

This assignment was done in Photoshop. The image was drawn with my drawing tablet and modeled on Debbie Harry of Blondie fame who was influential in bringing this style of New Wave music to mainstream success in the 1970s. I chose Vladamir Script as my font as I felt it had a French appeal. Other Photoshop tools used were elements and tools that were used were: the eraser tool, drop shadow, inner and outer glow, fill effects, airbrush.

That's Trash

This is my version of the assessment "Thats Trash". As Jamie said there is a 1001 ways to undertake this task and this is what, how and why I have done it this way.

Having had a broken lighting fixture in my bathroom the past couple of months smashed and shattered light bulbs have been a regular occurrence for me. Once a bulb was been replaced it it would fall and a few days later need to be replaced again. Therefore my rubbish bin has been full of glass and broken bulbs. So when given the assignment "That's Trash" I knew I had to create an artwork that vented my own trash and frustration.

       This piece uses alot of the required elements that the brief and Photoshop have to offer. The use of a scanned object is evident, having scanned the brown string/rope myself. The light bulbs are a digital image that has been duplicated and each bulb has its own unique character helped by the eraser, clone and shadow tools.    

      The font I decided to undertake myself. I decided to make it a handwritten font as I feel it suited the aesthetic look of the piece. It was given an inner and outer glow effect was added to give the letters that authentic bulb look.

      The brown paper was photographed and then given effects to make it look worn and rustic. I used the brown paper as it is what I used to collect all the pieces of broken glass with. Shards of lass were also inserted into the assessment to continue in portraying the authentic look of the piece.

Tutorial 2, Monday 7th March 2011

This is the product of an in class photoshop activity. This image displays both two images (the woman and the tears) selected and amalgamated into one photoshop image.