Mixed Digital Media
This is a really old piece that wasn’t so much designed, as it was a series of experiments that I hobbled together.
I mention “mixed digital media” in the post title because it should be noted (to the non designer/techie) that there are nearly as many digital approaches to art creation as there are in the analog world. Inside our computers we can paint, sculpt, construct, and modify anything just like we can in real life.
I’ve come across some people (proficient in some of the traditional hands-on genres of certain artistic disciplines) that were under the impression that doing stuff on the computer is just “easy,” as if the computer just makes stuff up by itself.
Truth is, if you can’t draw in real life, you’re not going to be sketching masterpieces on your machine any time soon.
Granted, while in the digital realm we have the luxury of hitting “undo” to correct past actions, when you consider that you have the power to adjust each and every pixel inside an image, it’s easy to spend hours simply making adjustments that only you would know about. In many cases, creating art from the ground up in a 100% digital environment may take as long or longer than making the same piece by hand… just for different reasons.
So, digital mixed media:
As one can plainly see, the image is divided into three irregular sections (from top to bottom):
1. Arial (bold) written out to say something that I thought sounded cool at the time, a 3D Studio Max model (color, render and text in 3DS-Max).
2. Another 3DS model, rendered at three angles inside of Swift 3d (it converts several 3D formats into vector images/animations). The background for this section is a collection of made-in-photoshop textures, colors, and manipulations layered on top of each other.
3. Though I don’t still have it on me, this bottom panel was a photograph I’d taken of a stack of quarters. I attacked the photo with nearly every tool in PhotoShop until it both no longer looked like change, and fit with the other panels.