More Graffiti In My “Art”

Last week, I made a wallpaper for the (as yet unestablished) fan community of Graffiti In My Heart using Photoshop. I did not mention that there were even more stuff I made using that amazing software. Here are some of the artworks (Well, I suppose you can call them that) I came up with over the course of two years.

space1

Space art. One of the earliest photoshop artwork I came up with.

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More space art… some improvement, eh? The textures were done using the various brushes in the software. The pictures above were made from scratch and used some effects from the photoshop-nerds website PSDtuts.

OK, I feel like I am showing-off. I now promise that I will not show-off much and you should now promise that you will put up with me and continue reading. Deal? Deal!

araluv2 This one shows my name Aravindh, shaped as a heart. Actually, this was drawn by hand; using a blue pen on paper. I used Photoshop to change the colour brom blue to love-red.

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If you have ever read Angels and Demons, you might have encountered ambigrams, specially crafted words that actually look the same when you see them upside down. Here are two ambigrams I made for my school pals, Prashanth and Pranav. Go ahead, bend over your monitor and look at them upside down. See the magic?

prashanth

pranav

OK, they are not exactly as readable as the ones used in Angels and Demons, but still I was not expecting much with my pitiful skills. Finally, here is one ambigram I made for myself.

Aravindh

If you are wondering about the awkward aspect ratio, it’s because I designed the last picture as a wallpaper for my shiny new, totally awesome Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. OK, now I’m really showing-off. I broke my promise, so you may stop reading now :( . Hmmm…at this rate of breaking promises, I might make a good politician, you know?

16 Responses to “More Graffiti In My “Art””

  1. nagfa Says:

    Nice rendering.

    We design ambigrams too.

    salam,
    nagfa
    singapore

  2. Arvee Says:

    Awesome ambigrams, nagfa! makes mine pale in comparison, eh? :( hope you get to become someone like John Langdon

  3. Mukund Says:

    hey man that is some really cool piece of work…
    Specially the ambigrams were great… I am sort of speechless :)

  4. Avada Kedavra Says:

    hey thats awesome.. Can u make an ambigram for me? :P or teach me how to make :) Ur post inspired me…Even I need to learn from Photoshop tricks..

    • Arvee Says:

      nah…its not talent or anything…i learned most of the stuff from the photoshop nerd professionals website i mentioned…PSDtuts.com…..PS: arent you forgetting something? for what word am i supposed to be making an ambigram for? avada kedavra? :)

  5. Avada Kedavra Says:

    learn some*

  6. wrahool Says:

    the ambigrams are pretty nice … one of my school friends also made a couple and showed me, but these are so much cooler

  7. Avada Kedavra Says:

    hehe.. no.. seriously..it was the photoshoppy inspiration from u-know-who :) the word is ashwini for which I need the ambigram :D and I need some photoshop lessons from u as well!

  8. Avada Kedavra Says:

    but tell me is it good? or too gaudy? any suggestions on improving it?

  9. Avada Kedavra Says:

    hey thanks.. ur banner is really good but try changing the theme.. I changed my theme too.. we dont have lot of choice in wordpress.. cant edit the CSS.. grr

  10. WhatsInaName Says:

    Whoa… This looks cool!!!!

    I have tried my hand in photoshop, but I dont quite get it.. Where can I find a good tutorial for it??

    • Arvee Says:

      try the site i mentioned psdtuts.com or search for “photoshop tutorials”…you’ll get the hang of it easily enough

  11. Incognito Says:

    Hey..Loved the graphics..Watch out though,NASA might just hook you up to fake a Mars landing just like what they did to the moon! ;)
    Which reminds me..Why don’t you try out some alien landscape graphics??

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