The Visitors

PhotoShop Composite/Digital Art

What is a photo composite? A photo composite is multiple images combined or blended into a single image.

This is my favourite Photoshop composite I have done to date. It was inspired by Whitley Strieber's 'Communion',
a book about his personal experience of alien abduction.

Yes, I'm obsessed with aliens.

The part in the book that really stood out was when the abduction happened in a remote cabin in the woods. I wanted to get across the cabin was isolated, and how out of place and terrifying the UFO would be if you seen it.

After the composite was done I applied a Camera Raw filter to make it look grainy and textured to make it look like it was a photograph taken back in the 1980's.

You can see the 4 stock images I used below, these
were taken from Unsplash, a brilliant website to source
high-resolution images with no copyright or royalties.

Freefall

PhotoShop Composite/Digital Art

What is a photo composite? A photo composite is multiple images combined or blended into a single image.

This image is what made me get into Photoshop Composite design and endeavour to improve my skills.

I love how vibrant the image is, the motion blur makes
you think you're falling.

Dragons and fire, what else do you want?

You can see the 3 stock images I used below, these
were taken from Unsplash, a brilliant website to source
high-resolution images with no copyright or royalties.

Leon 'Rocky' Edwards

Illustration/Poster Design

Leon Edwards is a UFC fighter from Birmingham who became the Welterweight Champion at UFC 278 with a historic knockout in the 5th round against Kamaru Usman.

This fight and Leon's story about his life inspired me so I knew I had to create something to remember the moment.

Illustration is always something I wanted to do more of so I decided to make a comic-strip of the head kick. I wanted to keep the style simple and clean while still making sure each fighter is recognisable.

Subtle highlights and shadows on the fighters gives the illustration the final polish and makes them pop.

I thought this would look perfect on a poster so I used a mock-up to show what it would look like. I'm really happy with how this came out.

Brian 'Limmy' Limond

Illustration

Brian 'Limmy' Limond is one of my favourite people on
the planet so I wanted to create an illustration dedicated
to him. If you know, you know.

The main goal was to make sure that people could recognise that it was Limmy, I hope I have achieved that.

I thought it would be interesting if I created an illustration that could easily be printed as a sticker. This meant keeping it simple and not having too much detail that
could be lost.

Fred Again..

Digital Art/Poster Design

If you haven't seen Fred Again's Boiler Room on YouTube then I advise you to go and listen to it right now, genuinely one of the best mixes I've ever heard in my life.

After listening to his boiler room for the 25th time I wanted to create a mini poster/thumbnail design that could encapsulate how amazing the mix was.

This was created in Photoshop by taking a screenshot from the YouTube video and experimenting with the adjustment layers until the image had the correct feel.