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I wont have mine done by the 15th ... knowing the way my September was (birthdays and christenings every weekend last month ... plus side work) I never signed up. But it was in my head that if I could do one I would try to sneek it in ... got mine designed(ish) but know I wont have time to actually do before deadline ...
Used to live by a plaza that was located on the corner of Buffal Rd. and Union St. ... always thought it would be cool place for a tobacco/liquor store (walk in humidor, chilled wine room type place). Originally was thinking of a buffalo in a monicle and an ascot with a pipe and a snifter of brandy (if you can picture the look) ... yeah, everytime I drew it I thought of beauty and the beast too. So I changed direction a little ...
Maybe someday I'll get a chance to make it.
-------------------- Compulsive, Neurotic, Anti-social and Paranoid ... but basically Happy Posts: 2677 | From: Rochester, NY, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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That is awesome! How did you do the fire looking background where the buffalo is? Is that airbrushed? Photoshop filter?
Very cool.
-------------------- John Cordova Gitano Design Studio Albuquerque, NM Posts: 268 | From: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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John, putting the buffalo in the clouds is simple (in Photoshop) 1)found a buffalo picture doing google image search(best reference source possible IMO) 2)image->adjustments->color balance ... to bring out colors I wanted 3)"rubber stamp" the ass end all over 4) "smudge" the ass' into puffs of clouds
I used a few more steps, like I think I maybe made three layers of the same thing, blurred 1, set all to different modes (ie: a normal layer, one set to multiply, one at overlay) ... just playing until I like what I see. But that's the basics
-------------------- Compulsive, Neurotic, Anti-social and Paranoid ... but basically Happy Posts: 2677 | From: Rochester, NY, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Beautiful- better than I'd have come up with by far. I'm just not keen on the particular '& '(ampersand) in the bottom line. (I don't have an alternative one for you either! yet!) Well done
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