Since I am making a portfolio for all the graphics work I've done this year, I thought I'd post the cover that I made for said portfolio. I think it's probably my best work yet. I love the way it turned out. I put in and arranged the text to look as it does, then I made two shapes on the top and bottom of the page. One orange the other blue. Then I duplicated each one and moved the orange on up more and the blue duplicate down more and then overlayed them so they'd look darker. Then I brought in my own artwork. The picture was of a superhero character of mine, I originally didn't mean to make it look like me but everyone started saying it did, so I just used it here now that I agree on how much it does look like me. Except now I have shorter hair. Then I made the drawing layer a 'Pin Light' layer mode. Then at the top orange part of the page, I made some spiky shapes with the pen tool. Then I found a stock picture of a grimy cement wall from deviantART
here. I made that layer a 'Color Burn' layer mode to finish off the cool effect I was going for.
