The Making of Sun and Moon version 1

Hello guy! I'll show you the source images that I used to make The Sun and The Moon version 1. All of those images were taken from Deviantart stock which has a thoudsands of free image that ready to use (of course you have to get the permission from the author before using their works). I think it not really hard to get the permission right? kaka. Okie, now let see the source images

1. The source used for The Moon piece

The Moon is the most difficult piece that i've work on. I spent a lot of time to find the right image for my ideas and this is the hardest part because there are many beautiful models and poses to choose one. After hours of "brainstorming" (haha) and searching, I finally got this two pieces of two pregnant woman. I used the black shadow woman as my main part and only use the arm of the woman on the left side to created two arm to the black woman. After that, I add the head on the top left side the the pose and edit some color in Color Balance. Finally, add the moon to the belly and take some tries in color blending mode.

2. The source used for The Sun piece

This piece is really easy. I was not change these images much in my final work. What you see in this three images are mostly the same with the final piece, except I had edited the arm of the man to lower position. And also some challengings in Color Balance and Blending Mode are taken. All the fire and flame were made by myself. Njoy :))

The Sun and The Moon V2

As you can see Sun and Moon in the last entry, i will show you my other version of Sun and Moon which i think there is a significant change in style and meaning. I really love this piece. After 1 day after my first two artworks of Sun and Moon. I try to make this two pieces more abstract and easier to get the idea.

The idea for this work came to me really accidentally when i was learning in Thierry class. Kaka. I was not really pay attention to his lession and the idea appeared in my mind. Got it!

Using the same technique when doing V1, i started to search images. I found one pieces of paper texture in my texture collection and think that this will be the best chose for the background. I also search some photos of water splash and dropplets. The photo of pearl and hot lava sun also need to be found. And the final result is

• The meaning of this work also different from version 1. Instead of male and female; black and white; I replaced those of them by FIRE and WATER.
  
• When looking to the moon or image of the moon, people has the trend of thinking about light and water. So that i make a splash of water and add a white pearl on top of the splash to represent for light.
  
• The meaning of the flame blade is easy. It represent for the hot sun with many lava tongue around its sphere.
  
• In general, all the image look like the fire and the water are dancing together in white space (represent for nothing), After this fate dancing, human were born (because fire and water are two main elements that created the earth and human) =)) LOL.
  
• This image also look like the shape of Ying Yang which is represent for everything that opposite but need to be together to make the world balance
  

Graphic design is...

Our lecturer had gave us this sentence in class and ask us to translate it meaning to image or symbol that fully represent the original statement

"Graphic design is a business of making or choosing marks & arranging them on a surface to convey an idea."

After a while of thinking, choosing, drawing and arranging them on a grey surface, i conveied this idea :))

The Sun and The Moon

Ey yo! This is my first post and I'll show you some works of mine

As last week we was learn about some art and design concept and we was asked to create 2 pieces of artwork which represent for the sun and the moon. My lecturer requied us to do something which can make people immediately think about the sun and the moon when looking in our artwork. That mean it has to be simple, arouse image and connect in ideas. As i had learn in class, I first do some brainstorming and after got a right ideas I stared to do some researching.

I came up with the idea of "invert". This idea came to me when I was using photoshop to do my work and the word "Invert" appeared in the menu. This tool bring really cool effect to the image so i decided to make my artwork relate to the word "Invert"

Now I already have my ideas and I began to search some images. Most of my images came from Deviantart site because it has a huge stock image and easy to get permission from the author. I decided to make my artwork in Manipulation style so i have to find many images and mix them together. And below is two pieces of my work.

As you can see, everything in these two pieces are inverted. except the sex of male and female.

• First, everyone will think that the moon appears when it is dark and the sun only raises in the morning. I do the reverse thing. White background for the Moon pieces and black background for the Sun pieces.
  
• Second, we always think that the sun, the moon, and the earth are where we were come from (or our legendary parents). I shown my idea as we are parents of the sun and the moon. The woman is being pregnant the moon and the sun (as father role) is training his Sun son.
  
• The color also represent the different between Sun and Moon