Sixth Side (of a Polygon)

This is my first painting of space - Laugh if you wish, but this is serious business lol.

I used the Wacom Tablet, around 5 different brushes with custom settings in each all created in Photoshop CS6. 

I would have scribbled less, but I really wanted to see how the color would trail/follow the stylus and ended up getting a really good feel of the equipment.

Fifth Element

Simple capital letter sheet for my first font. I used simple lettering and ended up wanting them to look nice and fat and happy. 

Used Illustrator and a font creation program that I certainly forget the name of lol!

I would have worked harder to line up the letter growth, but I believe it had to do with the shapes of each letter.

Fourth Square

Created a comp of the actual sticker, followed it with the layered version.

Ready for placement. The hardest part was eyeballing everything to line up - totally would have done better had I used the window as a guide, however everything is clearer in hindsight lol.

I used Illustrator, the "Cut Studio" for the STIKAAAAA Design Cutter, and a few brains other than my own!

commanding the third dimension

This is where you build.

You must build with what you have.

Prepare.

Defend.

Create.

to build you must create.

Secondary Creation

This is my (work in progress of) video of Mani-Stache.
Brandon Manipon, growing his very own hair.

This is a work in progress of my video - the issues that I ended up come across were the loooong long long save times in flash. The conversion to a flash layer for the video has created hideous interpolation (fake pixels from the depths of hell) and about 90% of the time Flash tells me that it is not responding. All while staring at a screen that I am not even touching! Bah! Needless to say the frustration is pointless as I wait, and wait some more, and then after all that waiting,
I continue to wait.

I was attempting to mimic a paint-brush effect from a Photoshop file in Flash. Using animation, drawing skills and some brainpower I have accomplished the first half of my video. I definitely would have felt more accomplished had I actually gone to class - that will teach me for being sick!

After all of this wait time and scrambling, this is what I have completed!

Initial Creation

I am Heidi Moorhead.
Full time college student, part time procrastinator, seldom slacker.
For as long as I can remember I have enjoyed arts of all sorts, but my favorite form of creation had to be manipulation. Photo manipulation to be exact! In middle school a friend of mine had shown me what a "photoshop" was and ended up putting Photoshop CS2 on my computer to play with. From there he showed me what awesome things you could do with websites and began planting ideas for other various ways to design.

Needless to say, at the incredibly mature age of 11, I used my photoshop powers for terrible evil and made it a habit to manipulate photos of my friends through the convenience that was given to me on MySpace. Doing terrible, hilarious things to my friends (like posting them on improper bodies, distorting faces, and even going as far as placing faces on goats!) paved the way to my more serious endeavor - actually achieving a successful career in Graphic Design.

Refining my manipulation to silly photos of my cat, Mac, in front of a pile of meat at my parents dining room table is one of the few things that I continue to do. (I totally have more if you want to see them!) I have been working on other aspects of art to help better all of my skills - beginning with improving my traditional art skills. I've recently come to find that painting has been the medium that was missing to complete my art of words in poetry. I have been writing for about as long as I have been playing with Photoshop.

I tend to favor crosshatch - which is simply the most fun for me. The sketch to the left is a portrait of my brother's friend, Sam. He's a pretty interesting kid. Its things like this that I have been working on - I'm debating the exact subdivision of Graphic Design that I have been wanting to do and still haven't quite decided. I enjoy illustration, layouts for print, and have been leaning towards web design but I've always had a thing for the marketing aspect of advertisement.

No matter what I end up doing, I'm looking forward to adding to my skills and finally having the opportunity to continue my education in school. When all is said and done, its the actual learning that I enjoy - the best part is that this is what I love to do.