Assignment 3 yea!! finished and completed

Finally done assignment 3 and this week and last week are busiest week...anyway I gonna make a quick and short tutorial or process of my assignment 3 work, poster.

First, i used back the tornado i drew in assignment 2 and multiply it into 2 of it and edited the sizes of tornadoes.
Then, I used rectangle tool to draw the buildings and adjusted to make them slanding like going to fall due to the strong tornadoes.
next, i used the rectangle tool and scissors tool to cut out some strokes of the rectangle and used pen tool to draw the zig-zag as the buildings is broken into two parts.
then copied and pasted them, i mean multiplied them and place where I think they should be. Then, edit the buildings on the land too using scissors and pen tool. Later, I used the radial blur> zoom effects on the buildings.

then, I used pencil tool to draw the lines around the tornado, the reason why i didn't used pen tool to draw instead of pencil tool is the lines I drew will become the flying objects later as I change the brush type. And also, used pencil tool to draw instead pen tool will not make it looks stiff for the flying objects.

here you can see, i changed the brush type of the lines spiralling around the tornado to fire_ash brush under the "artistic_ink" brush type.

Now, I going to make the another photo for the tornado which is less serious which represent the current tornado. I used the same method I did in assignment to make the tornado, so you can refer the steps on my tutorial of my assignment 2 in my blog. I drew a tornado shape with pen tool as the base colour of the tornado.

same method... copy another of the same tornado you drew, but u must copy it before you mesh the tornado as I experienced that it cannot allow you to make another copy of it once u mesh it with mesh tool to do the gradient. And I paste a picture of photo beside it to get the colour I want using eye dropper tool.

Then, i used the scribble effect on the second copy of the tornado layer. And added outer glow effect on the layer of the base colour of the tornado.

how I make the spiral dust and clouds around it? refer to my assignment 2, the brush type i used on the clouds and dust are " watercolour_wet" and "watercolour_stroke2" under the "artistic_watercolour" brush type. After that, I used the pen tool to draw the the trees at the back and used the spray tool to make the grass and used the "symbol scruncher tool" to pack the grass close together.
Okay, i going to say I'm not a person to make things sequently. Thus, now i gone back to the photo of more serious tornadoes and add more details on it, add some lines as smokes on the buildings by change the brush type to "watercolour_wet"
then added some flying objects or dust around the buildings.
this is computer error i guess, don't know what's wrong with the print screen. Anyway, i back to the second photo i making and added the dust and flying objects around the tornado also.Next, I made two rectangle stroke one these two image and ready to make clipping mask on each of them.
and again I did mentioned how i make clipping mask in assignment 2, so please refer to assignment two process in my previous post, thank you!
Almost finish, made the background green and typed few words related to my title and at the last line I put.
Next, change the colour the words into white and highlighted all the words except the title and changed the opacity of those words to 30%. So, that it clearly showing my title of this poster and able to let audience focus on my title.
Clipping mask again....

Okay, I know I skipped a few explanations and steps, sorry but i going to explain here, I used the rectangle tool to make the white border of the two pictures to make them become photos kind and written there "current" and "future". Then, i put my symbol on the bottom right corner and typed the tagline and below put the website link for audience to look for more information about it. And also made two lines to separate the title, the tagline and the website, one is white line with 50% opacity and one is black line.

Last but not least, I want to thank you all for viewing my Computer Graphic blog and also thanks a lot to my tutor, Madam Koo Ah Choo as she taught me a lot of things and now I learnt a lot from her about Adobe Illustrator, so happy =D and sorry if there's any english grammar errors in my blog or my assignments.

Sketches

ermm here got two sketches, but same idea, any references? ermm my idea is putting two photos of tornadoes, one is smaller/weaker which recorded the current year(2008) , and another is stronger and bigger and is recorded the year(maybe 2100) and put a question there :"which one do you prefer?" with big font size and below will write "you can stop global warming" and put my symbol there.

REFERENCES of the idea

I got the idea of stacking of photos from this, photobucket slide show

and a little reference to this image

FINALLY done!! XD Assignment 2

Yeap, I finally finished my assignment 2 after all the trials and errors to make the tornado.Ok, let's start with showing the progress of making the tornado using Adobe Illustrator.Before I start my trials and errors method to explore adobe illustrator and draw tornado by using it, I would like to introduce the tools first.

First, placed my sketch on the layer as a guide for me to draw my tornado

Created a new layer and used pen tool to draw the tornado without stroke colour

Then, I used mesh tool to make the gradient for the tornado to look more 3D or got volume look

Later, you can either copy a layer of the tornado u drew or draw another layer of the tornado.
The reason I copy another layer of it is to make more details for the tornado by adding lines spiraling around the tornado. How? The second layer of the tornado was added scribble effect. Choose Effect> Stylize> Scribble.

Now, here is where you can adjust how the tornado lines you want it to be.

Next, to add more details, I used elipse tool which is under the rectangle tool, you can find it in there by double click the rectangle tool. Then, I changed its brush type of the line to "watercolour stroke 2" which can be found in Brush Library> Artistic> Artistic Water Colour. Then, because I want to make the circle have the moving effects, so I added "Radial Blur" effect on the circle. Go to Effect> Blur> Radial Blur.

See the difference?

This is an image showing the radial blur settings

Of course, I havent done with the circle, to make it more 3D to look like the circle is spiraling around the tornado, go to Effect> 3D> Rotate...

Then, cut away half of the circle by the scissors tool and multiple it by copy and paste and adjust the sizes of the circles

After that, I created another layer as the background layer to draw the sky and land. And I used Mesh tool again to make the gradient/ the tones for the sky, I pick some colours from the images i found in the net by using the Eyedropper Tool.

OK, this is the part where I start to do trials and errors as I trying to find a way to make real clouds. First, I started with drawing another new layer of cloud with pencil and pen tool & added colours by using mesh tool.

By just drawing that cloud without details is not real enough as I felt, so i tried adding some lines

Testing with different brushes, NOPE, this is not I want yet.

Tried with less curves or lesser turning points line by pen tool.

Look better now.. but this is not the choice I pick in the end.

add more details, same method

same

Hmm, not real enough yet, why don't I try adding Radial Blur Effect?OK

Looks better, then I decided to delete the layer of cloud I drew just now, notice in this screen shot?I have another idea popped out but is more works to do for better outcome with details, so I tried drawing more lines as clouds and change them into different kinds of Artistic Watercolour Brushes.

Add radial blur effect to make the cloud look like spiraling towards the tornado

Draw more lines, you might asking why I don't use the blend tool to blend them? well cause they cant give the more random lines or the lines to curve the way I want. So I draw myself with pen tool.

draw more lines and add more gaussian blur and radial blur effects

Progress

As the more lines are drawn, the messy they are to arrange, so I grouped them separately.

Unsatisfactions are still with me about the clouds, so added thinner lines as the details for the clouds. Then, I tested with different "Artistic_ChalkCharcoalPencil Brushes" to find the right effect.

Testing here and there....

OK, after the cloud, I went back to the Sky background layer and added land on the same layer by rectangle tool. And again, added the tones of colours for the land/ground. Then, I created a new layer to draw the small trees on the land coloured black to show that they covered by the shadows of the dark clouds. Next, on the same layer, drew half oval circle by pen tool and blurred by gaussian blur effect to have the smoke or dust effect spiralling on the ground around the bottom of the tornado.
And also used pencil tool to draw few lines around the tornado and changed the brush type into "Fire_Ash" brush which can be found in "Artistic_Ink" brushes. With this effect, the lines around the tornado will look like objects flying around the tornado. To have the motion effects, add radial blur effect, I picked zoom effects in radial blur settings.

For more details, I added another one half circle at the bottom of the tornado with Watercolour Stroke 3 brush type and was blurrer by gaussian blur effect.

Still lack of flying objects around the tornado, so I added some.

Here is how to add borders or cover the unwanted lines which are out of the picture. I drew a rectangle line without filling colour same size as the picture on a new layer.

Then select the rectangle line with all other layers together and right click them and select "Make clipping mask" which taught by Madam Koo.
So, here it is, the final product of the tornado image for assignment 2! XD