The past few weeks I’ve been experimenting with different techniques. I don’t have a ton of time when I’m at home, but I try to keep the creative juices flowing. I lumped these three images together into this post because they are simply just experiments. As you know, I’m extremely inspired by film, and for the longest time I’ve found it difficult to channel that influence into my work. I think mostly because my drawings never do justice to the emotions I feel in my head. I feel photography captures those emotions more effectively.
The image above came out of reading one of my favorite film bloggers Kim Nicolini. She writes an amazing blog with extremely inspiring and in-depth opinions on the films she sees. One great thing about it, is that it’s on Live Journal and not some fancy WordPress (I love WordPress no doubt). It literally is a personal blog of someone who happens to have great taste in film. She occasionally posts her inspirations, art, photography and other life happenings. She posted some simple pictures of some awe-inspiring clouds, and I immediately felt that buzz and wanted to work with her photos. So I took her raw, untreated cloud photos and created something like this out of it. She was called her clouds fantastic, so I carefully added the type into the image.
The zebra image was actually a photo I shot myself while at this ridiculously absurd Safari in northwest Ohio back in 2006. I added a line of type I heard from talk radio that seemed to fit in with what I was feeling at the time.
The “Less than the Air” piece was a little more elaborate. My band Parachute Journalists covers a song by the same name originally written by David Dondero. This could eventually be a record cover, album art, or whatever. It will likely live on digitally and never be printed, but I just thought I’d share it.
The first one really communicates. I mean, with just a couple of elements gives really a ‘fantastic’ effect. It may be sound “rookiesh” but it would be nice if a tutorial of how to achieve that text effect is accomplished. Regards and keep it up with the experimentation, it’s always refreshing to see it.
I like the overall feeling of these. Nice!
What’s the font you used for Fantastic and Lesser than the air? Georgia?
In the “Fantastic” one, I just select areas of the image and blur and adjust colors. It’s actually a simple effect that I can sometimes get way too involved in!
As far as the typefaces used I honestly forget which ones, but I’m a big fan of Minister, Plantin, and Mercury.