A Work in Progress: Demolition



This guide was made for entry:
Demolition
In Contest:
typography art


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In Illustrator I created a new documento and typed "DEMOLITION" using the font named "Impact'. Size 160pt and tracking set to 75.

Creation of Demolition: Step 1

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Ctrl+Sift+O to create outlines.

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Using 'Direct Selection Tool' I selected the first letter. Menu Effet>3D>Extrude & Bevel to create 3D.

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Same process for the rest of the letters, only changing rotation around the X, Y, and Z axes. Document was saved as PSD file.

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In Photoshop I created a new document, placed the PSD file and rasterized it.

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I selected the letters faces, created a new layer via copy and changed hue/saturation. Then added texture.

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I created a copy of the word, changed hue/saturation, added texture, Ctrl+clicked the letters faces I created in the previous step to select them, and deleted the face of this word copy.

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I created a new layer at the bottom, selected about 1/3 of the canvas and made the soil, using cloudes and gaussian blur.

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Same process for the sky, inverting selection and using motion blur and transform tool too.

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On two new layers, one at the top and the other above the soil, I made the grass using the default brush named 'dune grass', but changing its size and angle and the foreground and background colours. Burn tool was applied to give depth.

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On a new layer I worked on the word shadows then.

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I created a hue/saturation adjustment layer above the sky to change its cyanish colour to blue.

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On a new layer at the top I merged all layers, duplicated it, applied equalization and gaussian blur. Then overlay blending with 50% opacity was applied.

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Final result

Creation of Demolition: Final Result

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