As I mentioned in my previous blog post, I have been trying to improve my skills in Photoshop or in the free version Pixlr. This time I decided to incorporate one of my favorite things into my artwork. To improve my skills I chose to learn how to create text art in Pixlr which is slightly similar to what I did in my last post. I have always found using words in images to be very creative and also interesting as they can bring spotlight to other elements in the piece that are not usually highlighted. To improve my skills, I first followed a video tutorial on creating text art using a guitar and words associated with music. I found this to be very informative while also simple in design. The main preface is using masks to cover parts of images and using the magic wand to help add the text into the spaces. After following the tutorial, I chose to do something more advanced which included not just an outline but other lines inside the picture that I had to figure out how to mask and replace correctly. For this I chose to do a image of the Philadelphia Eagles Logo with the starting offensive players of the team as the words. I found that it worked very well as it is something that interests me while also being more intricate than the guitar in the tutorial. The main struggle I had in creating this piece was figuring out how I wanted to mask the logo in order to make the words stand out while also making it identifiable as the logo for the team. To finish off the piece, I added a gradient as the background in order to give it more depth which I found added a lot to the piece as a whole. Here is the final product: As you can see in the image, there are many details in the logo which is where I ran into the most trouble. Overall, I found Pixlr to be once again, a great substitute for Photoshop as well as having its own features that make it easier to use.
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Kipfer, Kyle "Create Text Art in Pixlr E" YouTube, 17 Apr. 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XeJaGlwehQ.
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AuthorHi, my name is Nick Bayer and I will be posting blogs about every 1-2 weeks in the 2020-21 school year. I am doing this for my Advanced Game Design class at Durham School of the Arts(DSA). The views and opinions expressed in this blog are solely those of the author and do not represent those of Durham School of the Arts or Durham Public Schools. Categories
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