PTSA, The World Would Be a Better Place if... Competition
The message of my artwork is that the world would be a better place if we could all relax. I expressed the feeling of being relaxed by the text in the trees and frame, sleeping boy, and the quiet night theme. I believe that if everyone took time to relax, we could improve ourselves both physically and mentally.
I created my artwork by using an illustrator tutorial as a guideline on Tuts+ as well as my imagination. I used the tutorial to get a better understanding of gradients and effects to complete my artwork. First, I made a black frame by using the blob brush, shape tool, and direct select tool. After the frame was completed I created the bush and hill shapes, filled them in with different sets of gradients, and placed them behind my frame. Then I added a few stars and a moon to the backdrop and applied glow and drop shadow effects to all of my shapes in the illustration to finish it off. I thought that the tutorial had a few missing steps, but it's pretty easy to follow if you know illustrator well enough. The tutorial that inspire me to create this artwork can be found here.
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| "Forest Break", designed by Aaron G. ©2014 |
oh my, this looks so great. I love the layers and the way you put the colors together. it looks almost professional! I noticed you put your word incorporated with the image , such as on the tree and across the back, and it fits so well. Something I would do personally is make the boy you have sleeping a little bluer. not so black. just to make him stand out more. i almost missed him as I was looking at it. But all in all, amazing job!
ReplyDeleteIn all honesty, this masterpiece belongs in a museum. I love it and I bet other people love it also. I would recommend to possibly frame this and hang it so everyone can see it. :)
ReplyDeleteThis artwork is honestly the best I have seen from looking around at the others. The layers of hills and the curve design on the top looks hard to create yet you did flawlessly. The blue color also gives it a nice relaxing feel which goes perfectly with your message. Great Job Aaron!!
ReplyDeleteOh....My...God...If you don't win the contest Aaron i don't know what i would do but it would be bad haha. Everything is executed so perfect!! the color palette, the text and where it is the shading even the way words hollow out the tree!! This is perfect!
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