Soldier Illustration

Got the idea from a book titled: Framed Ink: Drawing and Composition for Visual Storytellers. The book is by Marcos Mateu-Mestre

I was going to use this initially as my center piece for my retro poster, but then opted to use a "photomontage" technique instead.

GRA341: Final Art History project: Retro Ad

The outcome of this assignment was to choose an art movement studied during our time in GRA341 (Art Deco, Art Noveau etc) and re-design an ad to make the style relevant, this creating a "modern-retro" poster.

GRA320 Final Project: Book Cover

So after 14 weeks of Photoshop training, this is what it all boiled down to; a book cover showcasing everything taught not only in this (3rd) semester, but the past (2nd) semester as well. That includes: layer masks, blending modes, colour corrections, establishing a visual hierarchy, colour echoing, typography etc etc etc.

The book I ended up choosing was "Tough Guy: My Life on the Edge", written by notorious NHL forward Bob Probert. I really wanted to show the stress/pressure of being one of the toughest fighters in the NHL and eventually leading to Probert's world shattering/collapsing, as he checked into rehab multiple times over his career. The rough texture not represents the playing surface of an ice rink after a bunch of guys have skated on it, but also the ruggedness of Probert's persona and the position he held as a NHL player. The type, I feel, is representative of this also.

GRA361: Final Website for Adventure Tours Ontario

Check it out NOW!

First fully functioning site built in Dreamweaver!
http://matrix.senecac.on.ca/~gnishida/

Photoshop Mockups

Altered to "home" page a bit, so it didn't look too similar to the "adventures" page. I opted to go with a larger image of a young couple camping for the home page image, just to show the demographics of which the project was trying to target.

Ontario Adventure Tourism

This was poster design I did for a class project to promote Ontario Adventure Tourism. Our target audience is 30-40 year olds with some disposable income that they like to spend on things like spas, wineries, or adventure tours. The idea was to design it with sort of an "Art Deco" or "Retro" kind of look to give sort of a style that an older audience might be able to relate to. The car is a 1959 Ford Thunderbird, it was a pretty awesome car back in the day and it was considered a status symbol for richer people. It also has that retro look to it with the tail fins at the back; you just don't see that style with cars anymore.

GRA320: More Photoshop Composite practice

More Photoshop composite practice. Pretty simple ones, took maybe 40-45 mins to complete. These focused more on the blending mode options for Photoshop layers.

GRA320: Software Training: More Composite practice

This assignment, I felt, went much smoother than the last one. Got through it much quicker as well.

Using both Camera RAW and Photoshop for corrections (Levels, Sharpening, Vibrance etc.), Colour Range to change the woman's shirt colour, eye edits, whitening her teeth and selecting the appropriate typeface for the design.