Kind of ironic that a lot of the people that do Illustration Friday are illustrators for children’s books.
Project
Do a two-page spread of a children’s book. 6″ height x 16″ width, use guides. The text will be a story of the student’s own or a nursery rhyme. The art will be any and all of the following: scratchboard effect, scribble effect, compound, text wrap, brushes, perspective (free transform tool).
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Adobe announced that it will buy Macromedia. They say it will “provide customers a more powerful set of solutions for creating, managing and delivering compelling content and experiences across multiple operating systems, devices and media.” Yes, it could. The press releases continues, “Together, the two companies will meet a wider set of customer needs and have a significantly greater opportunity to grow into new markets, particularly in the mobile and enterprise segments.”
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Project
Come up with an illustration for “Alone” for Illustration Friday. I wanted to use the tablet more and try a different program like Paint or Photoshop.
Mechanics
I used Photoshop 7 with my tablet. I tried the free Paint that came with it but I just didn’t get it. So, maybe next project.
As usual, I had ideas but they were tossed aside. Most of them were so depressing like an older woman at a grave (alone for the first time in 40 years), two people in bed not talking (“being” alone), and an animal in a cage at the SPCA (“left” alone). But being alone can be good. I love my alone moments, but I decided finally on how alone a person can be in a group of people.
Adam Polselli’s 2005 Color Forecast from the guy that gave us Where’d You Get That Color Scheme? and 2004 Color Forecast and Get the Look. Of the 2005 forecast, I like the browns & naturals and the desaturateds. Orange looks to be in the trippy tints so… hm. I definitely feel that bold colors are pretty hot for logos now, but don’t see the whole web page done that way. Example: Firefox. Bold logo. Soft page colors.
ColorCombos site to help web developers quickly select and test color combinations. Has a Combo Tester and Combo Library. It’d be kinda neat if I could rate them and see what the top color combos are. (tip)
