Sijun Forums :: View topic - grunge style photomanipulation and typography

RayKast · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2001 12:03 pm

I really like this. I havent seen a whole lot of grunge type art. Looks very well done, I like the style. I cant really think of much you could do with this.

eBoy · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2001 1:03 pm

Could be one of those middle-pages in a Neil Gaiman [Sandman]comic...looks excellent! What are you gonna use it for?

eBoy

Relyc · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2001 2:44 pm

Looks good, but castrastrophy isn't a word?

Mordecai · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2001 3:15 pm

quote:
Originally posted by Relyc:
Looks good, but castrastrophy isn't a word?

lol....WHOOPSIE....hehe hopefully you saved all your layers? or at least your type layer...

ichiban · member Member # Joined: 20 Jul 2001 Posts: 58 Location: ny

you know what always looks good in a grunge piece? find a nice old marble statue, ideally of an angel or soldier or something, and float it in there with its layer on multiply or screen - try that! it just seems to fit with the "feel". but as it is i think your image looks really cool!

Briareos · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2001 5:15 pm

Its too dark. Too much contrast, all you have it really lights and really darks.

RayKast · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2001 5:22 pm

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Originally posted by Briareos:
Its too dark. Too much contrast, all you have it really lights and really darks.

I think thats what it is that really defines the grunge look.

Moonlite · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2001 5:48 pm

the grunge look isn't the entire piece but mroe just that border but usually the border of a grunge pic is solid white or solid black so it CREATES contrast. The grunge technique is really hard to get a hang of, I have had a lot of trouble with it. It isn't hard to get right, but it is really hard to perfect. I like the piece but it doesn;t have much base if you made it a larger piece and take ichiban's advice and get a picture of a plaster statue with a column or something (try adn get something near roman or greek-ish, then desaturate it, invert it if you want it white, then place it in the big piece, put it at like 80-85% transparency and then play around with the layer effects till ti looks good, also if you are using Photoshop or another program with a transparency brush, use that at a low opacity adn take out small sections of it.

digismack · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2001 11:01 pm

Please critique this, I've been working on the "grunge" style for a while now and I think I'm starting to get it.

Tyler 'digismack' Morgan
Kulao Networks www.kulao.com
[digismack | www.digismack.net]

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Probotech · Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2001 3:54 pm

AAAAIIIIIE LIKE IT!

smalls · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2001 1:00 pm

that is way cool my friend
hehe.. change the imaginary word and it will be even better

i like this stlye of art.. it makes it more powerful in some instances

MadHatter · junior member Member # Joined: 24 Jul 2001 Posts: 10

on the supject of a statue...
I think a nice granite gargoyle would look best.

JiMSouL · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2001 3:49 am

I think what most people seem to have an idea about (gargoyle / statue / barbie doll..well.. no barbie really but she's DAMNED HOT...erm...im back...) is that it needs a feature. Its a kickass bit of grunge gear so far but theres no real focus to it.

On that note it would make a great background for that exact reason, but as a feature it maybe needs a catch to it?

digismack · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2001 1:43 am

thanks for the comments, I've actually scrapped this piece in favor of this new one, which is actually a remake of an older image.

Seagull · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2001 12:15 am

I really like both pieces! I like the frame on the last image - is it also a type or just some shape done in illustrator? I would ditch the words (baptist etc.) or change their font to something more interesting.
are there any other works?

digismack · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2001 3:13 am

well their is actually a reason behind the small text, which is .. "baptist" I'm slowly changing from religious, to anti-religion. I'm about 70% along the way now. I used to be a member Baptist denomination. The <strikethrough>community</strikethrough> is me revolting in a mild way against over populated communities that are saturated with annoying artists who have huge ego's. The "slave" is a reference to the administrator's of forums and websites dedicated to providing a place for artists to show their work, and in return the users of the forum/site don't show any respect for the fact that the admins give them a place to show their work, infact most of the users bitch at the admins.
The "black rainbow" is a reference to the song I was listening at the time, I can't remember which song, but the artist is Marilyn Manson.
The borders were created by carefully placing characters *picked from words of the Marilyn Manson song, and my thoughts at the time* from the font set "Ruritania" in sequence, overlapping and such, around the border.

Thank you all for your critiques, I will return to this forum often.

Tyler 'digismack' Morgan

ichiban · member Member # Joined: 20 Jul 2001 Posts: 58 Location: ny

cool font...can you put it up for a few days for us all to download and play with??

digismack · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2001 8:18 am

well the font I used is called Ruritania, there are a bunch of these style fonts that are pretty damn cool that can be found here
->http://chantry.ir.ucf.edu/~kat/fonts3.html

update: and I know that castrastrophy isn't a word, the song I was listening to while making part of it was "Dust Brothers - Commissioner Castration" and I thought the photorape looked like a catastrophy had hit it, so I tied the two together.. almost everything I do that people think is a fuckup actually has personal meaning behind it. Which mearly proves the point , atleast to me, that art is for the artist; and he shares that with the public, often they don't understand.

Tyler 'digismack' Morgan

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