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[availer]

Some of my latest pieces, in category format.

Spoiler: Signatures

My signatures, not my best pieces of work, I dont have much experience in this field.

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http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t111 ... dscopy.png[/img]



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http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t111 ... ihcopy.png[/img]



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Spoiler: Drawings

My favourite medium, been doing these since I was 2. Not all my pictures are scanned, and these aren't my best.

New
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http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t111 ... losion.png[/img]






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Spoiler: Latest Paintings

These were created with my faithful USB Medion mouse and photoshop CS2. Each took a good 4-5hours.

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Hair is not painted, just blurred.





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Spoiler: Interfaces

I'm more experienced in this field more than others. What youll see now is my latest and personal projects. None of my commerical projects are here. I am currently free for commercial work so contact me on availer@hotmail.com for more information on pricing and hours etc.


http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t111 ... ipcopy.png[/img]


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Spoiler: Misc

Some other pieces I've done that dont fall in the above categories.



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Enjoy

 

[availer]

50 Views, no replies? Honestly..

 

[CIPWM74]

Do not double post.
I can't say I like most of those signatures, but I like the 300 one quite a lot.
I am LOVING the drawings.
Why did you blur the hair?!
The interfaces OWN.

 

[Ratty524]

That shoe you drew is the best thing I've ever seen.

You have a lot of nice stuff, the interfaces rule.

 

[holloway]

That nameplates thing has the worst spelling and grammar I've ever seen.

 

[availer]

Haha, it's a piece of artwork, not an english assignment. And anyway, my friend actualy wrote the input for the poster. It was a design and technology piece, we're supposed to sell nameplates to people in school. And anyway, we made it in school with a terrible version of Gimp.

AND BTW, I blurred the hair because I didn't paint it. I couldn't at that time. Required too much patience which unfortunatly, I dont have.

 

[holloway]

A bad version of Gimp won't make it use the wrong homophones.
Why would people let you make them something if you couldn't make a simple advert?
The design was terrible anyway.

 

[availer]

Aye, which ended up us beating every single other team, and having, what? A profit of £432.23 In one day. Thanks for your comments. However, I would love to see you do anything better, I say this out of annoyance, why? Because your post lacked the necessary criticism followed by a sentence such as "it was terrible".

PS: Poor sentence structure in your above post. Very poor. : ).

 

[Venetia]

@ holloway: Come on. That was a terrible excuse for criticism. Saying something's "terrible" without mentioning why or how they can improve? How about you just say nothing and look like less of an ass?

@ availer: The interfaces are the best by far; they suffer the whole "web 2.0" look a little, but the layouts are clean and cohesive for the most part . I'm not hugely keen on the other works, just because I'm not a fan of Photoshop effects, but practice is practice! What I can recommend is to look up some material on blending things a little more subtly; right now the pictures just kinda look like photos with the blur/smudge tool passed over one too many times.

 

[availer]

Thanks venetia, but those "sigs" aren't smudged or blurred, painted effects. I guess they're the only ones with photoshop effects.

 

[holloway]

@ holloway: Come on. That was a terrible excuse for criticism. Saying something's "terrible" without mentioning why or how they can improve? How about you just say nothing and look like less of an ass?

How about you act like a moderator and don't insult individuals?

Do you really wish to know why? Fine.

1) The colours are horrific. White, crimson red and sky blue just don't work together- if you try and look at the crimson text bits you will see what I mean as you need to refocus slightly to read it. A member on here runs a website called colour magic, I believe, and (whilst I hate his spamming of it) it does have a few nice blue palates.

2) Rounded corners galore. Rounded corners are a debatable style because, when done right (see) they can look brilliant, but when they are poorly done, as with this, they appear cheap and like an indvidual was trying too hard. And you should NEVER use a "T" shaped inset box if you are rounding the corners as it just looks extremely odd. Next time, you should either extend the top box down a bit to make a larger rectangle, or remove the bottom of the 'T', centre it's text on the page and you have a nice focal point.

3) The gradients don't work. Putting aside that you did the gradients in blocks rather than smooth blurs, which can work, you seem to have not thought through their placement. For example, the top "T" block goes Light -> Dark Thin very light bar -> Lightest -> Lighter but with a dark gradient at the top. It just has a rushed feel. It also doesn't help that you have a separate gradient outside of that box which doesn't have a same distance gradient and therefore clashes.

4) The text just doesn't work. You should have used one font for the whole page, rather than 3 different ones. Especially when one of them is a rounded "cutesy" font and the other two are clean "business" fonts. More than that, the outline on the large text means that the already counter-intuitive character styling is rendered even more difficult to read as the outline clashes horribly with the fill colour. It would have worked far better with either a much smaller outline, or a white fill.

5) The spelling and grammar. Is this a design flaw? I can see why you would argue not, but poor spelling and grammar (And spacing if you look at the subtitle) gives off an overall air that this was knocked up in ten minutes. In the future take a little time to read through and check the text, especially when you are trying to sell something.

In all, it all appears disjointed and clashing. A moment taken to choose your colours effectively and to ensure the gradients work (or even that you don't use gradients beyond the furthest backdrop, simply using variants of a single shade of blue in everything else) would make it look far better.

 

[availer]

Thanks, although late, since I got that kind of critisizm 2 years ago when I made it. As you see I've improved. And as I said before, it was done in school, the break before the lesson xD so our group was kind of in a rush. However thanks for spending your time to anaylise that piece.

I think you misunderstand what web2.0 is Venetia. This is an example of web 2.0:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly ... eb-20.html

Infact, its not exactly a way of designing but what you have in your websites.

Why dont you like photoshop work? Those signatures have digitally painted effects and backgrounds, I'm not sure they're what you call "photoshop" effects.

 

[Midnight7]

Those signatures have digitally painted effects and backgrounds, I'm not sure they're what you call "photoshop" effects.

Your effects do come out looking a little like the default photoshop filters, and the text is hard to read. On the 300 one looks like your name says Vailer. Other then that they look a little too cluttered which take away from the piece. As for your Interfaces they all start to look the same and the rest holloway has already said. Still though I think your Large pieces are the best in your gallery. I love Abstract Renaissance and the one with the planet except for the stars which just seem to look like you did the noise effect. I've also noticed that you love gradients ;D

 

[availer]

I'm still not sure what you mean there, could you give me some examples? Thanks. The stars, are not noise, however the feeble attempt at city lights was noise, and I did change it on my deviant art version. Cant find it though. Thanks for your comment Midnight7.