11-11-2013, 04:36 PM
Getting better! If thinking about these as city environments I personally like from the first: A2, C5, E3, F5
the second: C1 B2, B1 with some tweaking. The more abstract forms don't read as cities much as they are, though they could be super structures or something.
Keep practicing with modifying your comp shapes. Something I find can help is to choose the shape language beforehand that you will do a particular thumb in; ie ovals, or triangles, or rhomboids, curves etc. or a combination. That way you don't just revert back to whatever is coming out of your hand naturally. I'd also say mess around with an abstraction tool like Alchemy or with custom stamps in PS to get you out of your own viz. library. And lastly constantly flip, rotate, do a levels, combine two etc. You really want to create interesting comp design and "see" things in the randomness to get the best results. I know my brain is still quite rubbish at coming up with it's own decent comp designs so abstraction is really useful.
the second: C1 B2, B1 with some tweaking. The more abstract forms don't read as cities much as they are, though they could be super structures or something.
Keep practicing with modifying your comp shapes. Something I find can help is to choose the shape language beforehand that you will do a particular thumb in; ie ovals, or triangles, or rhomboids, curves etc. or a combination. That way you don't just revert back to whatever is coming out of your hand naturally. I'd also say mess around with an abstraction tool like Alchemy or with custom stamps in PS to get you out of your own viz. library. And lastly constantly flip, rotate, do a levels, combine two etc. You really want to create interesting comp design and "see" things in the randomness to get the best results. I know my brain is still quite rubbish at coming up with it's own decent comp designs so abstraction is really useful.