Otherrealm Album Series Pt 2
Continuing with the album art motif I wanted to explore fantasy themes next. Ive been listening to a lot of dungeon-synth recently and drew some inspiration from that.
Otherrealm Album series pt1
Lately I have been on a YouTube tutorial frenzy to learn more techniques in photoshop. Otherrealm is a project that encapsulates these into a series of album cover designs for a fictional band. Currently I am taking most of my inspiration from syntwave and vaporwave genres but otherrealm can be anything.
I will definitely be revisiting this concept again so I am calling it Pt 1. I am listening to a lot of dungeonsynth and Drum and bass music rignt now so the next wave will probably head in that direction.
reticulation POsters
This is a technique I learned that involves overlaying a reticulation pattern on the posterize effect in photoshop to achieve a classic movie poster effect.
Halftone Patterns
This Photoshop effect involves adding a halftone pattern over your image with the Hard Mix layer style. I then color the image with a Gradient mask.
Having a good Halftone pattern allowed me to adjust the scale/density and angle of the pattern. Adding grunge layers add to the Printed look of the effect.
This one involved multiple layers and masks to achieve the effect I wanted
Brutalisum
Brutalisum is a technique in photoshp that involves adding the threshold filter to an image to get a grungy screen printed look.
You can then tweak the threshold slider as well as use the burn and dodge tools on the underlying image to get the look you want.
Brutalisum Works Best with an image that is already dynamic grungy. With a Bold font.
I enjoyed learning about this effect. And this style let me to learn about other techniques i will show in my next two blog posts.
Blog intro
Since taking my new job I have some downtime while waiting for calls or other office responsibilities to come in across my desk. In an attempt to use this time wisely I am honing my design skills on my own projects and online tutorials.
This Blog is a place for anything that isn’t part of my work experience portfolio that I am working on. Hopefully it will become a creative outlet for me during my time at WAKY signs.
The first few posts will be back to back as they encapsulate the last 3 months of projects.