Summary: My client would really like 3 custom wallpapers, having some of his favorite characters from TV shows and video games but with specific positions and a custom picture for his youtube channel. He would later give me some sketches or tell me how he wanted them arranged.
Wallpaper for Youtube Channel
His current logo
GTA Character
Client's Friend
He wants me to get a friend's and his own character out standing in front of a rainbow as a background. He also requested to have his character's face replaced with his original logo kind of like a mask. I then told him this wasn't really a logo but said it was fine, youtube would crop the picture into a circle and that would be his logo. i followed his instructions and later, I asked him if he wanted me to recreate his logo in phototshop and here was the end result:
I started talking to him about sending a page with the information on the logo such as colors, the change to black and white, so on. As a response he told me "it won't be necessary, i just want the finished product." and he ended up liking it! Then i combined all of the following pictures above into one by cutting out the characters and having his logo added to his character's face.
I showed him this and said it was perfect. As we were talking about the final look i asked him if he'd like me to change the lighting of them to all have a balance, but what i got in response was he was looking for a simple photoshop style and it was great as it is. All of this was done in photoshop but the re-created logo, that was done in illustrator.
Genji Wallpaper (1)
He told me about a game called Overwatch and how he really enjoyed a character called Genji. What i got out of him for the poster was he wanted the character wearing a specific skin, his dragon in the background, and some kind of gradient so the rest of the background isn't just white.
I first looked for a picture to show my client of this Genji character and he decided upon the one above. I had to manually erase the background because the magic wand tool was picking up both the background and certain parts of the character at the same time.
For the dragon, there was a specific dragon of the character that the client wanted. I couldn't find a clean resolution picture of it so i found a low quality one online and went on illustrator to trace over it and make my own. I changed it green because that's the color correlated with the character.
I added the green-black gradient in the background and turned the character all black. I did this in my opinion because it would look weird having him in the foreground with all those colors. I showed it to my client and said he loved that i did so. He told me it gave off a serious and bad-ass attitude.
Rick and Morty (2)
My client was interested into a show called Rick and Morty, I already knew of this show and I got excited. He wanted me to draw everything by hand but I presented a better idea. I asked him what if I drew the two characters (Rick and Morty) being in front of everything and photoshopped whatever else in the background. He seemed to like the idea and sent me a picture of this:
He told me that the oval was their spaceship and the title would go there. I asked him what background he wanted and got space as a response. This is what I ended up with...
When he saw it and I asked what did he think, his words were "it seemed a little empty on the left side" so what I suggested was putting a portal behind Morty. He asked me if I could show him what it looked like so I added it.
This is when he gave me the seal of approval and liked how it had ended up.
Logo Wallpaper (3)
This I find to be the simplest because what he told me he wanted. As the last poster he wanted me to find and put these well know YouTuber logos together in one picture. These YouTubers are called vanoss gaming, H2O delirious, terroriser, mini ladd, IAmWildcat, lui calibre, BasicallyIDoWrk, daithi de nogla, ohmwrecker, fourzeroseven, big jiggly panda, and smi77ty, He sent me this as the position he wanted the logos and requested them to all be black and white scale.
The white circle things would be where their logo would go and the blue one he told me to place a specific logo there, that logo would be of a game called g mod and to keep the color blue for it. After hearing this I got to work!
There wasn't much to do but erase the white around the logos, convert them black and white, and move them around to the positions. I also asked if it mattered where they went and it didn't matter to him. The only one I had to re-create was the monkey one, there wasn't a clear enough picture of his logo and I had to fix up that horse shoe looking one. When I was done he was quite happy with how it had turned out.
Personal Project
Summary: I'm currently in a chorus class and this is my last year participating, so I want to make a poster or some kind of picture that has everyone in it from 2016-17 as a year to remember!
What I first did was outline the photo with a black color to bring out certain features of the face or things like glasses. In the picture below, I outlined my shirt, jaw area, nose, drew my eyes along with glasses and eyebrows.
After that I added the skin and shadows for the neck. In a separate layer I then began my hair and drawing in the highlights and darker area of it. Let's not forget that I also when to the outline layer and colored in my shirt.
The last thing I would do is add the highlights for stuff such as glasses, skin or shirts. My shirt didn't really have bright areas so I didn't add them for myself but for others I did. So i went and repeated that same process of the 16 students that submitted photos to me.
Classmates:
These are the following classmates that sent me a picture for the project. There were a few who didn't feel comfortable being up here, so I didn't make them send me anything. Before you ask I did take that ding ding text out because I originally wanted to put in a bell but it would look odd to add that in the picture when they would all combine. In the end I did 16 drawings and added the W along with the "Chorus Class" in the end. I used a drawing app,called art studio, on my tablet to draw these and illustrator to combine them all.