Farting Unicorns On A Rainbow Sticker ...

In a world, that is rigid with being too serious all the time, there needs to be a moment of liberation- a moment to have fun.

Between that journey, there is a sticker to be made. Ok, got the vinyl. Started designing, a fatter Unicorn was my goal. Goal accomplished. Started to cut. Found out the next day, that nothing was cut and the surface got scraped. So three hours went away for nothing. Being angry, to have maxed out all of the vinyl- started salvaging the box...

Most of it was used. And the stickers (yes two stickers, one for show/one for tell) were almost done. The next day, got more vinyl. Finally happy, finished it. The video shows all the parts, that did not consist of all the complications, those were all done the day before. Then anger stuck along with the sticker a little bit, and I hate bubbles- did not really create any, cause I know better. But then things were stuck a little bit off, just got kinda frustrated dealing with a two day job for the size and amount of stickers for three days...

What does the sticker mean ? Well... In a perfect world... Unicorn farting glitter, etc. over a rainbow- Because it is all worth it ! Yes, it is all worth to fart glitter, rainbows and have fun, because the world is perfect ! Since it is really not perfect at all, it is sad, that no one farts glitter and rainbows, but goes through funky moments just to make an effing sticker. It was all worth it though !

 

Fonts-ish

The thing is fonts. Every language seems to have their own font.  That results in a mix of different expressions- guess so at least. Using the font program- showed a different appearance of the font that I had created. I really wanted to make a font with gears, locks and chains, but no luck finding what is in my head, so some day, I hope I can create these vectors...

My computer automatically shut off due to a virus, and my stuff seemed to have vanished, at least the Illustrator Version, even though I clicked save. Crap, this week is like, redoing everything, from stickers to fonts... But still, kept on going and focus on what needs to get done and fighting off my pissedofftivity of technical failures not caused by my own doing, not really. Well, I added then the versions, that I have right now- on a black background to show the chains that form the fonts.

I used my mouse pad on my hooptie-type laptop, old and it keeps on going and I pray every day, don't die on me. You know, when you start talking to your car, then it is time to get a new one, but you are dragging it out, until you get stranded and can pay down on it : )...

Ok, my drawing pad, new and not used, not working. So what to do ? Well, I used my finger to draw the fonts on my mouse pad. Six hours later, it was drawn ! Yep, six hours, but including to enter it into the program. The thing though, I gotta fix a few letters, and that is driving me nuts right now...I will just try again, and if it does not work like I want it, then turn it in with a semi-moping brain, and ask for help to move it later. Because I move it, the letter, and it is still looking off. Most of them seem to be fine, but they are all looking black on the white background and it looks totally different.
So then, I lost the letter "X", but I added it somewhere else, I forgot about it almost, because I don't know my alphabet ( just kidding)....
 Ok, somehow, I must be doing something wrong, for some reason, some of the letters will not centerize( made up word), and I feel defeated for now. But I am going to add it in here to show, what it looks like, in BW colors and I rather like it in the view in front, but it is still a made up font. I learned writing cursive and with time, things became a mix between the writing styles of different languages. Thank God for computers and no longer old school type writers....

It was an epic journey until three four o'clock in the mornings twice in a roll to do this, less sleep more work can bring out some demonic scripts, mmmhhh....
I had to figure out how to show the font on paper...
1. I saved the tff. file of the font on my desktop.
2. Then I took a picture on Microsoft Power Point of the  font image and saved it as a PDF, then as a JPG.
3. I opened up the pic in JPG, enhanced it a little bit, because it is blurry, cropped it and then put it on the blog.
So this is what the font looks like in black and white. I was not trying to imitate Comic Sans Serif, I really was not sure how it would appear, after I completed all of the fonts. I just went with what my finger could draw on a small laptop mousepad. I felt like doing some swirly stuff... It kinda reminds me, when I  used to drag lots of heavy chains at work once upon a time, so I picked chains.
So this is done for now, except in my mind, it is not done, because of the dang Caps D, S, and stuff....
 

OMG (What !?) Oversized Art...(Really !?) Why should size matter?

POLAROID STYLE JOINER

 

 

 

 

 

The idea of this photo was to have a photo of how a Polaroid was being held in the past to show the photo or to dry it and tell the story of having Polaroid photo frames inside of the larger Polaroid frame. The rest is mention on YouTube...

I thought, only short people are vertically challenged, and narrow minded creatures are horizontally challenged. I am confused. Yes, I am "doing work" at a larger scale, but why not? Yeah, there is not enough space in my mind for billions of pixels and polygons, etc. etc...

Nevertheless, the deal is, if the mind is infinitive (unless someone is from the country where Monsieur Dumass (pronounced any kind of way) lives, then the technology should be also as giving and broad-at least a fraction of it.

Meh....

These are the moments, when life seems not to be fair. In fact, it is actually life that is not fair, it is Photoshop that is not fair. When one tries to create a piece of work the size of a Michelangelo, and Photoshop tells you, that the files exceed 2 MG, it is not fair. It is like telling me, I am not allowed to have paint, brushes, gesso and canvas anymore. Tell an Artist to be blind, that is like not how to breathe in life. Allow unlimited space to create inside of a system. Limited minds create limited ideas....

Ehm, I know I should be more efficient using Photoshop, and have less layers. But then my photo will come out like a Kindergarten Picasso. Really, I do not like to create Plan B, which I create first to make it a plan A.

Anyway, getting lost in thoughts about this and angry and frustrated about something that has no value to feel this way, but the human side just validated that what one wants, one cannot always have. Thus, there is the bowl of emotions without the milk....
Well, this photo took multiple steps.
1. Find a Dress ( I prayed for one looking Exactly like this one, took a few months to find it, it is a black wedding dress, priced on the tag for $1, 500.... Well, I got it for less.... Paint the tiara black with some automotive scratch paint (it was left from my totaled ML350, never got a chance to use it).
2. Buy a dress , just for this photo shoot
3. Can't find a model
4. Set up the background with a backdrop frame, curtains and a white sheet, lay down some large canvas onto the ground, put on lights ( the lighting was horrible that day, I am usually really picky at it)...
5. Set up camera, tripod, shutter release cable, and mirror behind the camera to see how the creator of this assignment supposed to pose (no clue, but kinda just said- just Nike it out)
6. Get dressed, do hair, and do everything that needs to be done.
7. Pick up M4 toy rifle
8. Start taking photos, since no model is available, selfies are just a survival skill in the cold rainy outside and a warm home...
9. Go on Photoshop, pick the best ones. Photoshop them, then after an eternal amount of layers-
Create the background for it, create the inside photo for it, struggle for six hours to figure out something simple, and then lose the battle temporarily.
10. Go to school, and professor makes sense, while your mind is still like pudding about it off and on. I got it, I think, 58 seconds out of 60 seconds, got it how it works... Well, then do all the Polaroids for the inside of the whole photo- then go ahead merge it all together into a JPG, because it will not let me save it also as a PSD- because of my Michelangelo sized layers. Go home and realize, that Deviantart tells me, my pic is too phattt. Go back to PS and then resize it. Uploaded it now, and will finally be happy.

BUT NOW JUST TO REALIZE, IT WILL NOT UPLOAD ON DEVIANTART, ROARRRRR ! (MEOW), plus it is too big over here too...

It is after one a.m. and still working on this jay oh kay ee arr...

So the last resort, YouTube it, after PremierPro'ing it, then blog it. I hope my Photoshop "Homicide" case will be pleaded as not guilty. I am not doing this on purpose, to blow up PS, just wanting things a certain way, can't help it.

Meh...

Meow...

The How To Of The Siamese Twin Assignments Two After Assignment One

So the very first thing I had done was, I took a photo of this five week old kitten, shot it in RAW format. Then I went and saved it as a JPEG on my SD card. I enhanced the kitty in Photoshop, adding a dark background and lightening her eye color and adding some extra blue to her eyes. I changed the specifications of brightness and contrast also a little in PS. I added new layers, named the new layers and then added special brushes on Photoshop. Once I was done with all of my layers, I saved it as a PSD File.

 

The second step was to import the photo into the Adobe Flash Program. After setting up Action 3.0, the resolution of 1920 by 1080p, and extending the timeline for about 342 FPS( frames per second), I started adding the layers as a mask over the special brush objects. Every layer was masked. Clicking F6 in alternating sequences and painting over the special brush images from Photoshop, I then created the colored surfaces with the Adobe Flash Photoshop brush- to cover these images in post production in Adobe After Effects. Once that was completed, I rendered it and saved it to my desktop.

 

The third step was to import the file into Adobe After Effects. After it was imported, I started to change some of the brightness and contrast, some of the glow of the kitten's eyes and added a tri-color overlay as an effect. I rendered this also and saved the file on my desktop.

The final step for this task was to import this file to Premier Pro. I added a text title and cut down the music matching the photo's theme, and added at the end the same text title. I cut some of the extra excessive footage of images off to have a better visual outcome. After that, I checked the work of the movie and I exported it as H.264 to my desktop. I saved all my files and closed out all of my programs.

 

The fourth step was to watch the online tutorial. I went on Google's blogger and created a blog name.

Since I already have a Google account, the link sent me straight to my old profile. I added a few things to my profile. I went back and watched the tutorial and added a photo from the png. file of kitty. I learned how to customize the resolution, so I changed the resolution of the uploaded image.

The fifth step was to upload the video on my YouTube Channel.

 

 

Meow! Blog

Kitty Cleopatra



 

 

My name is Yasi, but I also am called Yazzy. I did not know, what I wanted to do, when I got out of the Army, and I did not know then I wanted to be an artist. I worked as a truck mechanic and other multiple jobs in the service.

 

I was born and raised overseas, came to the States when I was 22 and left again when I was 29. I came back seven years later to Fort Lewis until I got out of the military in 2013. Education has been a life time dream, and I realized, that I wanted to do art, but I did not know, it would be Graphic Design until last quarter. I really like and hate animation, anything for kids, such as cartoons, photography, traditional art and epic score music.

 

I bought a pregnant cat from a religious lady by mistake, so here is one of her kittens as a result posted on this new blog.The next blog will entail the rest of the story in this journey of this assignment.This is my very first blog since the 70s (not really). I did not know how to do a blog until today!