The above artworks are by graphic designer and programmer Joshua Davis. I love the variety in his work--how he can be very geometric in his designs, or organic like the first piece in this post. What that tells me is he's extremely talented, because he is well rounded and can successfully create both styles. Color and shape seem to be the best elements of art in his work. His use of color is intriguing and catches the viewers attention, with the contrast between vibrant colors and shades of gray. The shapes are consistent, but also vary in color, size, and orientation and can be geometric or organic. The principles of design that are strongest in his works are variety, repetition, and contrast. One shape never exists just once in his design and it has several alterations to it throughout the work, such as the different triangles in the second and third pieces. In nearly all of his pieces there is sharp contrast between values and colors (such as very bright whites and yellows against the dark background in top piece).
Monday, February 24, 2014
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Friday, February 7, 2014
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
The Grand Finale: Mustang Alley
So after a week or so of editing the "stock" car, here's the end result:
...Okay, not restored yet, but that was the idea. I took an already ugly car and made it worse, live-tracing the template in grayscale for that "primer" look and putting some images of rust on a couple fenders and other places. Then I decided that wasn't enough to make this car totally hideous so I pulled in an image of shattered glass, traced it in its simplest form, and put it on the back window. And there you have a completely unrestored '74 Mustang II...icky.
Then the real fun began, and I'll admit I got carried away in detailing this car to make it look just like the picture in my head. Here's where she is now:
Put a red overlay on the original template to get that nice Coca-Cola color. Added color to the taillights and headlights. Traced an image of modern chrome rims and shrunk them down to cover those nasty stock rims and added some louvers to the windows for a sporty look. Added some Coke decals to represent my parents' restoration business and NHRA license plates for the "present" part of this project. Oh yeah, and the hood opens...I guess the surprise is there isn't an engine in this thing...just words! The hatch also opens.
Then I put together a stand for both cars, with a racing checkered flag base and an NHRA logo (which also flips open).
Here's how it works:
The icky car is slightly larger to fit snugly over the restored car. The idea is that the client would pick up the gray car and find the nicer car underneath, examine the restored piece, and read about how each part is relevant to either my past, present, or future.
I'm overall pretty content with the design :)
Here are the art boards, pre-folded.
Template from mustangattitude.com
Self-Promotion Project
Brainstorm Map: Thinking of the aspects of my past, present, and future, as well as my main interest...I came up with this map.
Then I found this! A free template for building a paper 1974 Mustang II Mach 1...not my favorite body style for a Mustang and far from my favorite car (couldn't find a Firebird pattern) but it will definitely work for this project.
So I built it...here's the prototype! Definitely not a good looking car but I can fix that :)
Then I decided to sketch a side view of the car to lay out my basic idea. I ended up scrapping the half-restored look, and decided to built two different cars which show a "before and after" restoration.
- To be continued -
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